Come Tour the Grow Me A Story Gardens

By Carol Woolum Roberts

Tonight, we are hosting an event in our gardens with our Explore Your Creativity students.  It is called “Dessert Theater in the Garden”. The students are presenting poetry readings, songs and monologues and other theatrical presentations based on one of our many themed gardens.

They have also created items to go in our various gardens.

A banner, some wands and a dragon for the Harry Potter Garden.

A fairy house and a Ninja fairy for the Fairy Garden.

Before the presentation, each student can give their guests a tour of the gardens and enjoy some desserts and beverages.  One of our students will be providing guitar music while people tour and eat.

Attendees will experience some readings from “Hamlet”, “Macbeth” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.

Poetry reflecting the Pooh Garden, the Gnome Garden, the Fairy Garden and the Narnia Garden will be shared.

Songs about gardening and Winnie the Pooh will be sung.

A scene from “Alice in Wonderland” will be presented as the students recreate the poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter”.

These performances are always a great way to end our 10 week sessions with the students so they can share their creativity with their family and friends.

 First stop on our tour is the Winnie the Pooh Garden, designed by our daughter Zoe.

The next three gardens are the Theater Garden, the Gnome Garden, and the Moon Garden.

If you continue west past the Moon Garden, you will find the Harry Potter Garden, the Prayer Garden, and the Alice in Wonderland Garden.

If you continue past the Alice in Wonderland Garden, toward the Birch Tree stump, to your left is the magical Fairy Garden, full of all kinds of little wonders.

Next on the tour is the Shakespeare Garden.  Each plant in this garden is referenced somewhere in one of Shakespeare's works.

Enter the Land of Narnia as you venture past the Shakespeare Garden, visiting Aslan and Puddleglum the Marsh Wiggle.

Our final stop on today's tour is The Wizard of Oz Garden.  Come with us as we follow the yellow brick road and see the ill-fated Wicked Witch of the East, Toto in the basket on the bike, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion.  Keep following the yellow bricks to The Emerald City, and a sign that reminds us There's No Place Like Home.

We hope you have enjoyed the tour.  This summer we are hosting four different day retreats for adults in our garden, where attendees get to either Create Quiet, Create Stories, Create an Art Experience or Create Poetry.  If you want to check out about these retreats, click here.  We would love to have you join us!

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Have you created any fun spaces in your garden?  Share with us about some of your favorite spots.

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