Page Dickey
Autor de Breaking Ground: Portraits of 10 Garden Designers
Obras de Page Dickey
Outstanding American Gardens: A Celebration: 25 Years of the Garden Conservancy (2015) — Editor — 27 copias
Bouquets from the Wild 2 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20thc
- Género
- female
- Lugares de residencia
- North Salem, New York, USA
Falls Village, Connecticut, USA - Organizaciones
- Herb Society of America
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Miembros
- 338
- Popularidad
- #70,454
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 15
Things I loved:
Strong New England nostalgia hitting me, and I was excited to hear about gardens in the Berkshires -- love that region, and want to know more about the plants.
It's an interesting transition that they are experiencing, and book is well written and well paced.
There's a refreshing honesty -- no shying away from discussion of finances or the limitations of age. I liked that Page acknowledges her privileged position, too.
Things I found uncomfortable at times:
This is a memoir by a clearly wealthy woman, part of a wealthy couple. It's very white. It's very East Coast old money. Sometimes it's really hard to connect to, because I have no experience with the scale of wealth that Page and Bosco enjoy. Page's hatred for kidney shaped pools; the economy of foregoing a greenhouse, but not considering scaling back on purchasing 700 bulbs every year... downsizing to 17 acres and having the money for significant construction on their new house... I just can't imagine what that would be like. Also being able to pay 2 people to garden and help with tasks, even part time, is pretty unimaginable to me. They are also elderly and retired, so the luxury of time is something I can't quite imagine either.
That said, they aren't in the category of the super rich -- it's just kind of interesting to see how the well-off live. It's also easy to understand the rich appreciation of nature the Page so eloquently conveys, and imagining the beauty that they create with what they have is a delight in its own right.… (más)