Shakesspeare Garden gets a Master Gardeners (interns) touch

The Shakespeare Garden was the beautification project of five Gregg County Master Gardeners interns this year, and they have done an outstanding job of planning, planting, watering and weeding the garden. These gardeners were Virginia Hudson, Cherisa York, Richard Martin of Kilgore, Nita Garner and Elizabeth Monroe from Longview.

These interns must work 50 hours each on this project within the year to become certified as Master Gardeners. The Kilgore Improvement and Beautification Association directors are so pleased that they chose the Shakespeare Garden as their project. If you drove by the garden, you probably saw one or more of them working in the early morning until noon's hot sun to make it a place of beauty for our community to enjoy. Many new plants have been added and a new bench has been placed in the garden.

A special thanks also to Carol Hinton and her grandson Trace Buyher for sealing the concrete benches and Shakespeare Bust to protect them from the weather.

During the Shakespeare Festival, the garden is seen by many people from other communities. If you have not been by the garden, please do so and enjoy the flowers and take some time to sit on the bench and rest.