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View an online presentation by author and gardener Marta McDowell while working on a small gardening activity.

In the program, Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life, author and gardener Marta McDowell explores Potter’s botanical art, the flora and horticulture that appear in her “little books,” and Potter’s own garden in England’s Lake District. When we think of Beatrix Potter, we imagine blue-jacketed bunnies and other fuzzy fauna. But Beatrix Potter, an intriguing character in her own right, was also quite interested in plants and gardens.