Hanover Square

ribbon ends - rises a yellow magnolia, fortuitously called Magnolia 'Elizabeth'. The garden's namesake HM, The Queen Elizabeth II visited this living memorial on July 6, 2010. The Magnolia 'Elizabeth', patented at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 1977, was planted by her grandson HRH Prince Harry on May 29, 2009. With fragrant yellow flowers, it is an early bloomer, catching the first rays of spring light as the sun rises over the tops of the skyscrapers and into the garden.
Along the periphery and upon the slate walk are reminiscences of the Commonwealth, planted here to be read like mementos of friendship between the Americans and the British. The four national flowers of the British isles - rose for England, daffodil for Wales, thistle for Scotland and flax for Northern Ireland - are embossed on the finials the top the Eastern Memorial fence.
Gardens can be read like letters, each flower capturing a part of a human story. Here amongst the quarried stone and plantings, sent from the English to the Americans in a time of mutual loss, this garden can be read and reread in the days after, remembering, healing, and ever cultivating.

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