From Waymarking: ‘The secluded 56,700 square foot garden complex, adjacent to the Carolyn Blount Theatre, home of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, includes various plants and Elizabethan herbs mentioned in William Shakespeare’s poems and plays. The project is a multi-million dollar gift by Wynton M. and Carolyn Blount to the people of Montgomery.’

‘The landscape design for The Shakespeare Gardens was created by Edwina von Gal and Company of New York and features plants and flowers, such as Roses, mentioned in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Narcissus from Anthony and Cleopatra, and leek from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Medlar and Pomegranate trees will also grow in the gardens, Leafy Bowers, woven with Willow, Honeysuckle, and white and red roses clinging to clamshell shaped willow arbors provide a shady place for park visitors to sit and relax. Flowers will be changed several times each year.’

The plants of the garden are labelled with common name, Latin name, quotation, and play reference.

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