The Dickinson estate, known as the Homestead, also included a barn, several acres of meadow, and a small greenhouse that became Emily’s Eden-a garden in a glass cocoon that continued to flourish even in winter.
Her mother was renowned in town for her “ delicious ripe” figs her brother and father added fruit trees and handsome conifers to the family property and both Emily and her sister tended large vegetable and flower beds packed with beets, corn, scarlet runner beans, asparagus, peonies, hyacinths, lilies, and marigolds.
She grew up among gardeners and nature-lovers in 19 th-century Amherst, Massachusetts, a patchwork of forest, pastureland, and residential areas where it was common for families to own orchards and small working farms. “I was reared in the garden you know,” Dickinson once wrote to a cousin.
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