'Shakespeare in Bloom' Saturday

SHAKESPEARE IN BLOOM - 2007

Plainfield's Shakespeare Garden at 80

Welcome to the Shakespeare Garden



Visitors tour the Garden



Plants and boutique items on sale



News to share about the Garden

The Shakespeare Garden at Cedar Brook Park is 80 this year, and on Saturday June 2 visitors will get a guided tour through this gem at its peak viewing moment, courtesy of volunteers from the Plainfield Garden Club, which has maintained the garden since its inception.

Hundreds of specimens of flowers, herbs and shrubs mentioned in the works of Shakespeare will be on display, marked with identifying nameplates.

A climbing rose grown from a cutting from the Ann Hathaway cottage in Stratford-on-Avon will grace a traditional dovecote. An armillary commands attention at the center of a knot garden.

Plainfield's Shakespeare Garden is one of fewer than one hundred such throughout the world, survivors of a wave of such gardens inspired in the early part of the last century by celebrations of the Bard's 350th birthday.

The sights and smells of the garden will be complemented by complimentary refreshments, a boutique and plant sale and music by members of the Plainfield Symphony.

An additional paid tour will show off three outstanding and contrasting private gardens of Queen City residents.

Funds raised by the private tour and sales at the garden will go toward maintenance of the garden as a public treasure.

Shakespeare in Bloom
Saturday, June 2, 2007
11 AM - 3 PM
Shakespeare Garden tour is free.
Tour of three private gardens, $15 per person.

The Shakespeare Garden




Cedar Brook Park and The Shakespeare Garden

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Other resources:

• "Directions to Plainfield's Shakespeare Garden"
  
  
• "History of the Shakespeare Garden"

-- Dan Damon

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