Emily the gardener

As a poet who has been spending way more time in the garden than at the keyboard recently, I was comforted by this NPR segment about the New York Botanical Garden.  They're currently offering a tribute to Emily Dickinson's passion for gardening, complete with over thirty poems displayed near the flowers and plants which may have inspired them.

I had no idea that Dickinson was such an avid gardener!  This definitely makes me want to reread some of her work, and perhaps feel a little better about the hours I've been spending on petunias and snapdragons rather than villanelles and sonnets.