Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again

By Page Dickey

Book Overview

"Uprooted reveals how a late-life uprooting changed Dickey as a gardener." --The Wall Street Journal

When Page Dickey moved away from her celebrated garden at Duck Hill, she left a landscape she had spent thirty-four years making, nurturing, and loving. She found her next chapter in northwestern Connecticut, on 17 acres of rolling fields and woodland around a former Methodist church. In Uprooted, Dickey reflects on this transition and on what it means for a gardener to start again.

In these pages, fol­low her journey: searching for a new home, discovering the ins and outs of the landscape surround­ing her new garden, establishing the garden, and learning how to be a different kind of gardener. The sur­prise at the heart of the book? Although Dickey was sad to leave her beloved garden, she found herself thrilled to begin a new garden in a wilder, larger landscape.

Written with humor and elegance, Uprooted is an endearing story about transitions--and the satisfaction and joy that new horizons can bring.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604699574
• ISBN13: 9781604699579
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.1"