Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again (Hardcover)

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 southern Connecticut, on 17 acres of rolling fields and woodland around a former Methodist church. In Uprooted, celebrated garden writer Page Dickey reflects on this transition and on what it means for a gardener to start again. In these pages, fol low her journey: searching for a new home, discovering the ins and outs of the landscape surround ing her new garden, establishing the garden, and learning how to be a different kind of gardener. The sur prise 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 humour and elegance, Uprooted is an endearing story about transitions - and the satisfaction and joy that new horizons can bring.

General

Imprint:	Timber Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2020
Authors:	Page Dickey
Dimensions:	229 x 165 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	244
ISBN-13:	978-1-60469-957-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Science, technology & engineering Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Gardens (descriptions, history etc) Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Biography > Science, technology & engineering Books > Gardening > Gardens (descriptions, history etc) Promotions
LSN:	1-60469-957-4
Barcode:	9781604699579

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