My all-time favorite garden book. In her day, Celia Thaxter was better known as a poet than her contemporary, Emily Dickinson. Today her fame rests instead on this slim volume of prose about a year in the life of the garden she nurtured a century ago on Appledore Island, a rocky refuge off the Maine-New Hampshire coast. “Often,” Celia wrote, “I hear people say, ‘How do you make your plants flourish like this? What is your secret?’ And I answer with one word, ‘Love.’” If you love gardening and you love literature, you’ll love this book.


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