Flowers, Shrubs and Trees in the Shakespeare Garden, Kilgore, TX
Agapanthus Lily
Like the lily, that once was mistress of the field and flourish’d, I’ll hang my head and perish.
Henry VIII
Bear
Exit, pursued by a bear.
The Winter’s Tale
Boxwood
Get you all three into the boxtree.
Twelfth Night
Butterfly Bush
Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds do sorely ruffle; for many miles about there’s scarce a bush.
King Lear
Cedar
As upright as the cedar
Love’s Labours Lost
Coneflower (Daisy family)
There’s a daisy.
Hamlet
Chives
Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon.
All’s Well That Ends Well
Crepe Myrtle
Merciful heaven, thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt splits the unwedgeable and gnarlèd oak than the soft myrtle.
Measure for Measure
Daisy
When daises pied, and violets blue, and lady-smocks all silver white, and cuckoo-buds of yellow hue do paint the meadows with delight
Love’s Labours Lost
Fern
We have the receipt of fern-seed; we walk invisible.
1st Henry IV
Fig
Feed him with purple grapes, green figs and mulberries.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Grape
For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
The Rape of Lucrece
Grass
You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Holly
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly.
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Honeysuckle
So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle gently entwine.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Hosta (Lily family)
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily… is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
King John
Hydrangea
This garden has a world of pleasure in it. What flower is this?
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Iris
This common body like to a vagabond flag upon the stream goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, to rot itself with motion.
Antony and Cleopatra
Jerusalem Sage
(Salvia: mint family)
I am that flower; that mint; that columbine.
Love’s Labours Lost
Lavender
Here’s flowers for you; hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram.
The Winter’s Tale
Lily
Give me swift transportance to those fields, where I may wallow in the lily beds proposed for the deserver.
Troilus and Cressida
Marigold
Great princes’ favourites their fair leaves spread but as the marigolds at the sun’s eye.
Sonnet XXV
Mint
I am that flower; that mint; that columbine.
Love’s Labours Lost
Oakleaf Hydrangea
An oak with but one green leaf on it would have answered her.
Much Ado About Nothing
Rose
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Romeo and Juliet
Rosemary
There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember.
Hamlet
Salvia (Mint family)
Here’s flowers for you; hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram.
The Winter’s Tale
Society Garlic
I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill.
1st Henry IV
Thyme
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Vine
Dry up thy marrows, vines, and plough-torn leas.
Timon of Athens
Yarrow (Daisy family)
Let us find out the prettiest daisied plot we can, and make him with our pikes and partisans a grave.
Cymbeline