Rebecca VanDoodewaard

Rebecca VanDoodewaard is an author, blogger, and mother. She is author of Uprooted: A Guide for Homesick Christians.

  • Uprooted Article by Rebecca VanDoodewaard

    FROM TABLETALK | May 2015

    One spring, I transplanted a hydrangea. It was a last-minute decision, and the attempt involved my digging a hole in one dirt patch, then extracting the plant from another dirt patch in the fifteen minutes I had until my husband came home for dinner. One of my mistakes was trying to take the entire root system with the plant; the root ball was so large that it fell apart as I dragged it across the lawn, endangering the bush’s life. In trying to take everything, I learned that it’s safer for the plant and for the gardener to take less. … View Resource