Embroidered Ground

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.