Marta McDowell

Marta McDowell lives, gardens, and writes in Chatham, New Jersey. She consults for public gardens and private clients, writes and lectures on gardening topics, and teaches landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden, where she studied landscape design. Her particular interest is in authors and their gardens, the connection between the pen and the trowel. Her new book, Gardening Can Be Murder, is now available.

Frances Hodgson Burnett Really Loved Gardens—Even Secret Ones

“As long as you have a garden you have a future.”

September 29, 2021 By Marta McDowell

How to Plant a Garden Like Emily Dickinson’s

Milkweed, Hollyhock, and a Little Bit of Color

October 29, 2019 By Marta McDowell

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