Shakespeare Garden Tours

“There is Rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you love remember. And there is Pansies, that’s for thoughts. There’s Fennel for you, and Columbines. There’s Rue for you, and here’s some for me….”—Ophelia

The Colorado Shakespeare Gardens invites all who love Shakespeare’s work to extend their experience from the sights and sounds of the stage to the scent and sweet beauty of his gardens.

Before taking your seat in the theatre, spend some time in the courtyard between the Hellems and Education buildings. Here, a passionately committed team of volunteers cultivates and tends gardens devoted to the plants that Shakespeare knew and memorably references in his plays. You will see a towering specimen of Rosa alba x alba, the White Rose of York, and the ancient Rosa gallica officianalis, The Red Rose of Lancaster. You can savor the fragrance of musk roses, carnations and rosemary, fennel and rue and banks of thyme, lavender and savory. Visit our sample of a traditional Elizabethan knot garden and be enchanted by our moonlight garden interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Encounter familiar carrots, lettuces, squash, turnips and radishes in the Kitchen Garden, punctuated with bay and apricot trees and twisted willow teepees for climbing peas and beans.