Emily "Daisy" Dickinson

The Financial Times explores Emily Dickinson's garden:

Flowers do not only grow in gardens and in nature. They also blossom in writers’ minds. Quite often writers combine impossible varieties, ignoring the botanical calendar and opting only for evocative names. Occasionally poets really know what they are describing and greatly increase the pleasure of their gardening readers. One of the best informed was the American poet Emily Dickinson, until her death, aged 55, in 1886. Her love of flowers is essential to the understanding of so many of her cryptic little poems, which have become exalted as triumphs of US female writing. Until June 13 Emily Dickinson, her poetry and her flowers are the subjects of an unmissable exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden, which is putting on the event with the Poetry Society of America, backed by the well-judged sponsorship of the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is an essential destination for gardeners who are caught in downtown Manhattan as the weather starts to warm . . .