Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again

This engaging story recounts the author’s journey from leaving her beloved garden to creating a new one in northwestern Connecticut. After thirty-four years of nurturing her celebrated garden at Duck Hill, Page Dickey found herself drawn to a 17-acre landscape with rolling fields, woodland, and a former Methodist church. In this book, she reflects on this transition and the challenges of starting anew as a gardener. The story follows her search for a new home, exploration of her surroundings, establishment of the garden, and learning to embrace a different kind of gardening. Despite her sadness to leave her beloved garden, Dickey found joy in beginning a new garden in a wilder, larger landscape. 

Written with humor and elegance, this book is an endearing story about transitions and the satisfaction of new horizons.