A Garden Alphabetized (for your viewing pleasure) was Marta's first collaborative project with digital artist, Yolanda Fundora. Her 26 essays accompany Yolanda's digital collages.

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Emily Dickinson's Gardens was Marta's first book-length project. It explores the poet's work through the lens of her gardening interests across the seasons. Order this book by clinking on this link to Amazon.

Here's what Scott Kunst of Old House Gardens Bulbs said about this book:

"Banish that image of Emily Dickinson as a reclusive New England spinster. In Emily Dickinson’s Gardens, horticulturist Marta McDowell will introduce you to a charming young woman who loved gardening, collected wildflowers, forced hyacinths into winter bloom, and wrote witty, surprisingly modern poems that often use garden images to explore transcendent themes.This is not a scholarly tome but an informal exploration of gardening and nature in Dickinson’s life. It weaves together biography, history, excerpts from her many poems and letters, descriptions of her plants, and tips for gardening today as Emily did more than a century ago."

Marta's writing has appeared in gardening magazines and professional journals including The New York Times, Fine Gardening and Woman's Day. She has been a regular contributor to Hortus, an English gardening journal. One of her articles was selected for its 21st anniversary anthology published by Frances Lincoln entitled Hortus Revisited. You can order this book by clicking on this link to Amazon.

Her article called "When Thoreau was Emerson's Gardener" on Transcendentalist gardeners in Concord, Massachusetts is in the Spring, 2011 issue.