Emily Dickinson Garden at The New York Botanical Gardens

The Dandelion’s pallid tube

Astonishes the Grass,

And Winter instantly becomes

An infinite Alas –

The tube uplifts a signal Bud

And then a shouting Flower, –

The Proclamation of the Suns

That sepulture is o’er.

Dandelions seem an unlikely choice of flower to grow at the New York Botanical Gardens, but poet Emily Dickinson felt a kinship to what many consider to be a weed.  Dandelions and other blossoms are now on display in “The Poetry of Flowers”, an exhibition that features Dickinson’s poems and the garden that influenced her work.

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