The Longfellow Gardens Planting Plan

These pages are taken from "The Planting Plan of the Longfellow Gardens." Unfortunately, the gardens discussed are not the zoo and environs around Fish Jones' property in Minneapolis. This planting plan was produced by the Longfellow Garden Club to document their restoaration of H. W. Longfellow's gardens surrounding his home on Congress Street in Portland, Maine. This was the poet's boyhood home.

The gardens's were restored by a dedicated group of literary, historical, and gardening faithful. The Maine restoration was researched and accomplished around 1927, making this garden restoration a contemporary of the Fish Jones zoo property. Of particular interest to the restoration and replanting of MInneapolis' Longfellow Gardens is the two plant lists: the first lists all the plants mentioned in Longfellow's works. The second lists all the plants used in the garden restoration. It is providential that this old plan was for a garden in Maine and not he more famous Longfellow House in Massachusetts. The climate in Maine is more like Minnesota's and thus most or all the plants mentioned here can be expected to thrive in Minneapolis.

The plants mentioned in Longfellow's works
(4 pages)

The plants used in restoring the gardens surrounding Longfellow's boyhood home in Maine
(9 pages)