April 30 -June 13. During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) was better known as a gardener than as a poet. The New York Botanical Garden’s multi-venue exhibition, Emily Dickinson’s Garden: The Poetry of Flowers, highlights the connections between her life and poems, and her love of gardens with a re-creation of Dickinson’s own mid- 19th-century New England flower garden, a replica of the family property in Amherst, along with books, manuscripts and other artifacts. Visitors can stroll through Emily Dickinson’s Poetry Walk, with over 30 poetry boards and audio messages featuring Dickinson’s poems and the plants and flowers that inspired her to write them -- daffodils, roses, daisies, tulips, crabapples, and hemlocks. Also on display - Emily Dickinson's White Dress. “She dresses wholly in white, & her mind is said to be perfectly wonderful." - Mabel Loomis Todd on Emily Dickinson.
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