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Shakespeare Garden

Shakespeare wrote much about plants.  This garden highlights and demonstrates plants referenced in Shakespear’s work along with quotes.

Primrose

Primula spp.

Perennial

Purple Leaf Sand Cherry

Prunus x cistena

Shrub

Pussytoes

Antennaria spp.

Perennial, Ground Cover

Red Leaf Rose

Rosa glauca (formerly R. rubrifolia)

Shrub Rose

Sedum, Stonecrop

Sedum spurium 'Dragon's Blood'

Ground Cover

Sensation French Lilac

Syringa vulgaris 'Sensation'

Shrub

Shasta Daisy

Leucanthemum superbum

Perennial

Shirobana Spirea

Spiraea japonica 'Shirobana'

Shrub

Siberian Iris

Iris sibirica

Perennial

Single Fernleaf Peony

Paeonia tenuifolia

Perennial

Smooth Hydrangea Incrediball

Hydrangea arborescens 'Abetwo'

Shrub

Smooth Hydrangea Incrediball Blush

Hydrangea arborescens 'NCHA4'

Shrub

Snowball Cranberry

Viburnum opulus

Shrub

Snowbelle Mockorange

Philadelphus lewisii 'Snowbelle'

Shrub

Spike Speedwell

Veronica spicata 'Sunny Border Blue'

Perennial

Spike Speedwell Purple

Veronica spicata

Perennial

Summer Phlox

Phlox paniculata

Perennial

Summer Wine Black Ninebark

Physocarpus opuliolius 'SMNPMS'

Shrub

Tinkerbelle Lilac

Syringa x 'Bailbelle'

Shrub

Tiny Wine Ninebark

Physocarpus opulifolius 'SMPOTW'

Shrub

Wedgewood Blue Lilac

Syringa vulgaris 'Wedgewood Blue'

Shrub

White Rose of York

Rosa alba var. semi-plena

Alba Shrub Rose

Winky Columbine

Aquilegia vulgaris 'Winky Red-White'

Perennial

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