Sarah's Passion for Gardening

Sarah Davis brought a love of nature and gardening from her home in Lenox, MA to her frontier home. She brought plants from New England, exchanged plants with friends and family, obtained some from Jefferson's Monticello, purchased some from local nurseries and collected some from the surrounding woodlands.

"I put in a large quantity of Annuals last week - and as the ground was dry and Sun hot - covered my beds with every available bit of glass on the place - actually took off the cellar windows to use. If the seeds do not soon appear to send up the tiny green leaves I shall be disappointed-as my ingenuity was sorely taxed to make my home implements serve my purpose."

—Letter, March 19, 1865.