"IT’S late summer in a lush terraced garden in the South Bronx, and it’s time to play every New Yorker’s favorite game: Wonder how much this put them back?

The property at hand is the garden of a classic town house, a 20-by-40-foot lot with stands of lavender and white phlox; a climbing red rose; jostling beds of pink, purple and white impatiens; and walls covered with ivy and grapevines. A smattering of morning glories climbs a latticework arbor and a peach tree is heavy with fruit."