Dickinsonian garden: rich confusion and chaotic order

Martha Dickinson (Emily's Dickinson's niece) remembered her aunt’s garden “rich confusion was its aim . . . you want to come upon mignonette in unexpected places, and to find sprays of heliotrope in close consultation with roses . . . No stiffness, no ceremony.”  “This kind of garden—asparagus waving near phlox, roses entangled with peonies.”

Substitute the names of a few flowers and veggies; it also can describe our garden this way.  It is rather “busy” and if there is any order, it is a chaotic one.

We also have many flowers of Emily Dickinson’s favorite: daisy, daylily, tulip, rose, lily, jasmine and zinnia.  We do not call this Dickinsonian garden for no reason.