In these pages, you are beside Emily Dickinson's elbow--feeling the dense heat
of summer, learning the skills of an ultra-observant plantswoman, finding the
poetry in nature. --Tovah Martin, author of The Gardenin Every Sense and Season
Emily Dickinson was a keen observer of the natural world, but less well known is
the fact that she was also an avid gardener--sending fresh bouquets to friends,
including pressed flowers in her letters, and studying botany at Amherst Academy
and Mount Holyoke. At her family home, she tended both a small glass
conservatory and a flower garden.
In Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life, award-winning author Marta McDowell
explores Dickinson's deep passion for