In the Homestead garden, Emily, Lavinia and Mrs. Dickinson grew a great variety of flowering plants: shrubs, climbing vines, annuals, perennials and bulbs. Dickinson’s poems and letters mention roses, lilacs, peonies, sweet williams, daisies, foxgloves, poppies, nasturtiums and zinnias, among others. Although the exact location of the flower beds is unknown, Dickinson’s niece Martha remembered that “there were long beds filling the main garden, where one walked between a succession of daffodils, crocuses and hyacinths in spring—through the mid-summer richness—up to the hardy chrysanthemums that smelled of Thanksgiving, savory and chill, when only the marigolds . . . were left to rival them in pungency” (Bianchi, p. 2).
ROSES I Want
Sweet Briar Rose Known as the "Sweet Briar Rose" because of the strongly apple-scented leaves, this is a favorite English na...
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Outside in the garden, which was full of mellow sunset light streaming through the dark old firs to the west of it, stood Anne and Diana, ...
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Centranthus ruber Caprifoliaceae--Honeysuckle Family Propagation: Centranthus is a willing re-seeder and can become a bit weedy in a m...
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As a gardener, Emily Dickinson was attuned to the weather, the changing seasons, transitions in times of day, and the populations of bee...
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