About this item
A New York Times Bestseller. There arent many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. Her characters - Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest - exist in a charmed world filled with flowers and gardens. In Beatrix Potters Gardening Life, bestselling author Marta McDowell explores the origins of Beatrix Potters love of gardening and plants and shows how this passion came to be reflected in her work.. The book begins with a gardeners biography, highlighting the key moments and places throughout her life that helped define her. Next, follow Beatrix Potter through a year in her garden, with a season-by-season overview of what is blooming that truly brings her gardens alive. The book culminates in a travelers guide, with information on how and where to visit Potters gardens today.
About the Author
Marta McDowell teaches landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden. Her latest book is Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life. Timber Press also published The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder, All the Presidents' Gardens, and Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life, now in its seventh printing. She is working on a new book about The Secret Garden, due out in 2021. Marta is the 2019 recipient of the Garden Club of America's Sarah Chapman Francis Medal for outstanding literary achievement. She likes to read, knit, and garden. Her husband, Kirke Bent, summarizes her biography as "I am therefore I dig."
