Embroidered Ground

By Page Dickey

Book Overview

In Embroidered Ground: Revisiting the Garden , the acclaimed author and garden designer Page Dickey writes of the pitfalls, challenges, successes, and myriad pleasures of the twenty-nine year process of creating her own remarkable garden, Duck Hill, in upstate New York. This winning book details the evolution of one especially loved and cared-for space: its failed schemes and realized dreams, and the wisdom gained in contending with an ever-evolving work of art. The author shares her very personal views on what contributes to a garden's success--structure, fragrance, the play of light and shadow, patterns and textures, multiseasonal plants. She writes of gardening with a husband, with wildlife, with dogs and chickens. And she grapples with how to adapt her garden--as we can adapt ours--to change in the years ahead.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374533199
• ISBN13: 9780374533199
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"