Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again

Page Dickey and her husband Bosco walked away from thirty-four years of making, nurturing, loving their garden at Duck Hill. They left thousands of perennials, bulbs, and trees that they had planted young and watched grow and stretch. In Uprooted, Dickey reflects on this transition and on what it means for a gardener to walk away and start again.

The surprise at the heart of the book? Although Dickey was sad to leave her beloved garden, she found herself thrilled and challenged to begin a new garden in a wilder, larger landscape, and she embraced the role of caring for and restoring native plants and habitats. In Uprooted, readers will follow her along the journey as she searched for a new home; discovers the ins and outs of landscape surrounding her new garden; gets the garden established; and learns how to become a different kind of gardener.

Page Dickey has been gardening passionately since her early twenties, and writing about gardening, as well as designing gardens for others, for the last three decades. She has written seven books. Dickey lectures around the country about plants and garden design, and has written many articles for magazines over the years, including House and Garden, House Beautiful, Architectural Digest, Horticulture, Elle Décor, Fine Gardening, and Garden Design. The garden at Duck Hill has been featured in a variety of periodicals including the New York Times, House and Garden, Elle Décor, Vogue, and Garden Design. She serves on the Board of the Garden Conservancy and is one of the founders of its popular Open Days Program. She and her husband are both members of the Friends of Horticulture at Wave Hill. Visit her website at pagedickey.com.