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Sukkah in Washington Square Park

The sukkah has returned to Washington Square Park. This year, Sukkot is observed from October 8 to October 15. Sukkot is a harvest festival and building a sukkah is the first step in celebrating the holiday. The sukkah must be located outdoors - "under the open sky" - with a vegetated roof and a minimum of two and half walls. Image: Sukkah, Washington Square Park, 2011 The park's sukkah in 2011 was built by the NYU Chabad House. This year's sukkah has a similar design so I assume it was also constructed by the university Chabad House. My introduction to Sukkot was the Sukkah City 2010 exhibition in Union Square Park. The twelve competition finalists displayed their sukkahs for two days. A couple of my favorites are shown below. For more photos, read Sukkah City in Union Square Park .

Window Box Gardens in Munich, Seattle, Tokyo, and London

Last year we reached out to friends of the blog who garden and/or love gardens to tell us about their window boxes. We received four responses and fortunately there were no repeat locations. Leslie Kuo of Urban Plant Research is an admirer of other Berliners' window boxes in Berlin (she's since relocated to Hawaii). Kelly Brenner of Metropolitan Field Guide plants for wildlife in Seattle . Across the Pacific, Jared Braiterman of Tokyo Green Space gardens on his balcony . And back to the Atlantic, Melissa Harrison grows vibrantly red strawberries in South London . (Melissa Harrison is the author of the novel Clay and blogs at Tales of the City.) Image: Strawberries in South London, image courtesy Melissa Harrison For primer on how to garden in exterior window boxes, check out Gardenista's Hardscaping 101: Window Boxes . Need plants for an interior window box? Consider these species for the windowsill which were photographed during my Sprout Home field trip. P.S. The first