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Now, as on the day I first met Renny Reynolds in New York City five years ago (we were writing for the same magazine — Renny on entertaining, I on gardening), he turns every conversation to the farm he shares with Jack Staub. Both men still work in Manhattan — Renny overseeing his three chic floral shops and concocting lavish decorations for galas and weddings, Jack writing plays for Off Broadway between stints as a creative director in advertising — but they seize any chance to flee to their Pennsylvania retreat. On those 72 acres in Bucks County, they indulge their passion for planting and design. Jack jokes about “gilding the lily,” because Boxwood Farm was beautiful before they did a thing.