A floral fantasy in an old English garden

Step through the wicket into an enchanted old English garden, where clipped hedges, green arbours, and a sundial frame a lively floral masquerade. Here, flowers take on the names, manners, and costumes of ladies, knights, courtiers, rogues, and royalty, each revealed through playful rhymes and fanciful wordplay.

Follow Love-Lies-Bleeding, Dandelion, Foxglove, Snapdragon, Sweet William, Meadowseet, and dozens of other familiar blooms as they flirt, quarrel, boast, hide, and dance among the grasses. The turning seasons and swift passage of time lend the garden a gentle wistfulness, but the mood remains bright, witty, and wonderfully theatrical. This charming verse fantasia invites listeners to linger over the music of its language and rediscover the curious names of flowers as characters in a miniature world of romance, ceremony, and comic adventure.