Emily Dickinson Garden - Heirloom Garden Plants

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) spent her life at her family’s homestead in Amherst MA. She gardened in her American Victorian era garden as passionately as she wrote poetry. The plants we offer were either referred to in her poems or are pressed in her herbarium.

She wrote of spring:

So build the hillocks gaily
Thou little spade of mine
Leaving nooks for Daisy
And for Columbine
You and I the secret
Of the Crocus know –
Let us chant it softly –
“There is no more snow!”

Emily Dickinson Garden

26 square feet, 19 plants total



$110.00 \ea
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Flowering herbaceous plants

3 - Alcea rosea*	Hollyhock
1 - Aster novae angliae	New England aster
3 - Campanula roundifolia	Harebell
3 - Dianthus carthusianorium	Clusterhead pink
1 - Filipendula ulmaria	Queen of the meadow
3 - Iris siberica	Siberian iris

1 - Phlox paniculata	Garden phlox
3 - Scabiosa ochleuca	Cream pincushion flower
1 - Zizia aurea	Golden alexander

Would be $146.65 if purchased separately. You save $36.65.

Total 28 plants for only $199.58.

Hollyhock* is a biennial that readily reseeds.
Be sure to let them drop their seed and not to hoe or pull out the seedlings.

Large Emily Dickinson Garden

55 Square feet, 33 plants total



$197.55 \ea
	BUY

Trees/shrubs

1 - Calycanthus floridus	Carolina allspice
1 - Chaenomeles japonica	Flowering quince

Flowering herbaceous plants

3 - Alcea rosea*	Hollyhock

3 - Asclepias incarnata	Swamp milkweed


5 - Campanula roundifolia	Harebell
2 - Clematis virginiana	Virgin bower (vine, will want a trellis)
3 - Filipendula ulmaria	Queen of the meadow
3 - Iris siberica	Siberian iris

3 - Phlox paniculata	Garden phlox
5 - Scabiosa ochleuca	Cream pincushion flower
3 - Zizia aurea	Golden alexander

Would be $282.20 if purchased separately. You save $84.65.

Total 33 plants for only $197.55

Hollyhock* is a biennial that readily reseeds.
Be sure to let them drop their seed and not to hoe or pull out the seedlings.