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Songs of the Garden. You can hear samples of the album from the website www.songsofthegarden.com
DESIGN ELEMENTS
with landscape designer Louise McDaid
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| Ann Hathaway's cottage-Stratford on Avon |
Do you like a good play or going to the theatre? If you do you might know that one of the world’s greatest playwrights, William Shakespeare, was a dab hand at incorporating plants into his plays.
He seemed to know so much about them that it’s thought he was an avid gardener.
Where Oxlips and the nodding Violet grows;
With sweet Musk-Roses and with Eglantine
For all the readers and lovers of Shakespeare. You might have a favourite piece of prose, or remember a particularly touching poetic line – he was and remains the most prolific author to use references to plants and flowers.
In fact if you visit Stratford Upon Avon where Shakespeare retired to, I fancy you might see a Shakespearean garden at Ann Hathaway’s cottage.
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| Ann Hathaway's garden-Stratford On Avon, England |
What a great theme for a garden.
You could even put signs near the plants that provide the relevant quotations.
Ophelia says in Hamlet “There’s rosemary that’s for remembrance, Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies that’s for thoughts.’
Of course from Romeo and Juliet, the best known quote or misquote- "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
If you have any questions about Shakespearean gardens why not write in otherwise all information will be posted on the website atwww.realworldgardener.com
