Buffalo Shakespeare Garden

Buffalo Shakespeare Garden It is a beautiful, triangular space, 72' x 80' x 110' -- 2800+ square feet. There is water available for our use, and a person to cut the grass.

Christopher Kelly, executive director of the Karpeles Manuscript Museums in Buffalo, has given permission to use the front land at the Porter Avenue Karpeles site to develop a Shakespeare Garden. Otherwise, volunteers will maintain it, once it is completed. This garden will be dedicated in 2016 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. A Shakespeare Garden is a natural next step

for Buffalo, which has the country's second largest outdoor Shakespeare Festival and a flourishing Garden Walk season. The Karpeles site at 453 Porter Avenue is between D'Youville College and Kleinhans Music Hall. Porter Avenue, which connects Symphony Circle to Columbus Park and Front Park, is part of the (Olmsted) Delaware Park-Front Park System, a national historic district. (At least two other of the country's Shakespeare gardens have Olmsted connections: Vassar's Shakespeare garden uses plants grown in the college's Olmsted greenhouses; the Olmsted Brothers, famous Boston landscape architects, were "hired to plot out two 100 foot beds with four additional flower beds" for the Plainfield (NJ) Garden Club, "Friends of the Shakespeare Garden.")

One of the most important future parts of this project are the needed volunteer hours. Master Gardeners are often mentioned as volunteers for other Shakespeare Gardens in the country, and the Karpeles, right from the beginning, has been happy to have an opportunity to work with Master Gardeners. In addition, We intend to invite student volunteers, and, perhaps, interns, from local colleges and schools to participate in this project.

This weekend is Buffalo's Garden Walk! Stop by our garden and stroll among the wildflowers, sit in the willow cottage or...
07/28/2017

This weekend is Buffalo's Garden Walk! Stop by our garden and stroll among the wildflowers, sit in the willow cottage or learn more about how Shakespeare wrote about herbs!

08/29/2016

Please spread the word about the Buffalo Reading Invasion!

07/29/2016
Don't forget to wear you shades this weekend when you stop by the Buffalo Shakespeare Garden during the Buffalo Garden W...
07/29/2016

Don't forget to wear you shades this weekend when you stop by the Buffalo Shakespeare Garden during the Buffalo Garden Walk!

On Sunday, July 24 we officially opened our garden! We are proud to offer such a spectacular opportunity to connect the...
07/25/2016

On Sunday, July 24 we officially opened our garden! We are proud to offer such a spectacular opportunity to connect the words of Shakespeare to the flowers, trees and plants in our garden.

Please come visit this weekend during Buffalo's Garden Walk!!

07/24/2016

Please join us at the Shakespeare Garden today between 12 and 2 pm. The garden is in full bloom for its opening!

06/25/2016

Buffalo Shakespeare Garden 453 Porter Avenue
MISSION STATEMENT: To provide a place of inspiration, learning, enjoyment, and beauty through a garden dedicated to the plants, flowers, and general horticulture depicted in the writings of William Shakespeare.

06/23/2016

The Buffalo Shakespeare Garden will be opening July 24, 2016.

We are so proud of this garden and all the beauty it has brought to Porter Avenue. It's not too late to go check it out!...
09/04/2015

We are so proud of this garden and all the beauty it has brought to Porter Avenue. It's not too late to go check it out! Head over to the Karpeles Manuscript Library on Porter to see some beautiful flowers. Mind the bumblebees, they are very busy!

"If you would seek us,
We are yours i' the garden: shall's attend you there?"
-Hermione, Winter's Tale (Act I, scene 2).

07/23/2015

The Garden team is proud to announce that we are part of the 2015 Garden Walk! Stop by our garden, enjoy the flowers and willows, and taste ginger-apple punch served by an Elizabethan. See you there!

Conceptual layout and sample plantings:Hamlet: "A violet in the youth of primy nature,Forward, not permanent, sweet, not...
06/01/2015

Conceptual layout and sample plantings:

Hamlet:
"A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
The perfume and suppliance of a minute."

Romeo and Juliet:
"What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."

Henry VIII:
"Like the lily,
That once was mistress of the field and flourish'd
I'll hang my head and perish."

03/11/2014

Thank you to everyone who has LIKED us so far! We are excited to get this project moving forward to 2016. Please try to attend the upcoming Fundraiser for the Buffalo Shakespeare Garden on Sunday, April 27.

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433 Porter Avenue
Buffalo, NY
14201

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