Psychologists have foregrounded the importance of links between places and daily practices in the construction of subjectivities and well-being. This article explores domestic gardening practices among older Chinese immigrants. Initial and follow-up interviews were conducted with 32 Chinese adults ranging in age from 62 to 77 years. Participants recount activities such as gardening as a means of forging a new sense of self and place in their adoptive country. Gardening provides a strategy for self-reconstruction through spatiotemporally establishing biographical continuity between participants old lives in China and their new lives in New Zealand. © 2010 SAGE Publications.

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Asian Interpersonal Relations psychological aspect Gardening Social Identification human aging Asian continental ancestry group Interview, Psychological Aged ethnology human relation family conflict Humans male Emigrants and Immigrants Acculturation female self concept cultural factor psychologic test Article migration New Zealand Mental Recall recall social behavior