Starting next week I will begin to post pictures from inside
the Colorado Shakespeare Gardens which I have the honor of helping to tend and
nurture. They are located on the Colorado University campus at Boulder, just
outside the theater where the Bard’s plays are performed. I believe as many do that Shakespeare was a
master gardener, and it is possible to extrapolate from anyone of his plays a
list of highly significant plants. The
ones that will thrive here on the High Plains at the foot of the Mighty Rocky
Mountains are acquired each year and placed in gardens commemorating individual
works.
Many years of reading, studying and watching these
magnificent plays have taught me that Shakespeare held nature – what some call
his Green World – to be a standard of the highest and most sublime
excellence. Indeed, it is a touch stone
by which he measured the value and absurdity of the human condition. I hope you will enjoy looking at these
beautifully constructed and lovingly cared for gardens as much as I enjoy being
near them. In my opinion they are a
fitting tribute to the greatest body of work in the English language.
Today’s photos are from my gardens by way of expressing my absolute devotion to
and complete agreement with William Shakespeare.
