Embroidered GroundRead about another book on the list.
by Page Dickey
Celebrated gardener Page Dickey has spent thirty years cultivating a plot covering as many acres, now known as Duck Hill. Hovering between a memoir and an artist's detailed record of her life's masterwork, her new book introduces readers to her garden's residents (Pennisetum and an "old-lady pink" Viburnum, dogwood and feverfew) as if they were citizens of a fairy nation. Our reviewer, Peter Lewis, writes, "She loves her garden as if it were a child -- with joy, distress, responsibility, guilt -- which is the most beautiful thing of all."
--Marshal Zeringue
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