title: Hellstrip Gardening: Create a Paradise between the Sidewalk and the Curb
author: Evelyn Hadden
description: "excellent book for an often forgotten horticultural contingent: urban dwellers with only wee strips of dirt to work with ... a lively, optimistic guide to transforming dead space into a small splash of Eden, a win-win for everybody." -- <i>Publishers Weekly</i>
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  **Hellstrip**
  
  
  **GARDENING**
  
  
  **Create a paradise between the sidewalk and the curb**
  
  
  **Evelyn J. Hadden**
  
  
  With photographs by Joshua McCullough
  
  
  Foreword by Lauren Springer Ogden
  
  
  Frontispiece: Nothing enlivens a cementscape more than a boldly blooming
  garden.
  
  
  Copyright © 2014 by Evelyn J. Hadden. All rights reserved.  
  Published in 2014 by Timber Press, Inc.
  
  
  Photo and location credits appear on [page 282](41_photo.html#page_282).
  
  
  The Haseltine Building  
  133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450  
  Portland, Oregon 97204-3527  
  [timberpress.com](http://timberpress.com)
  
  
  6a Lonsdale Road  
  London NW6 6RD  
  [timberpress.co.uk](http://timberpress.co.uk)
  
  
  Book design by Breanna Goodrow
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Hadden, Evelyn J.
  
  
  Hellstrip gardening : create a paradise between the sidewalk and the curb /
  Evelyn J. Hadden ; with photographs by Joshua McCullough ; foreword by Lauren
  Springer Ogden. -- 1st e