Uprooted av Page Dickey

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<P><B>“<I>Uprooted </I>reveals how a late-life uprooting changed Dickey as a gardener.”<I> —The Wall Street Journal</I></B><BR/><BR/> 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 <I>Uprooted</I>, Dickey reflects on this transition and on what it means for a gardener to start again.<BR/><BR/> 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.<BR/> <BR/> Written