One hot Saturday earlier this summer, a hardy band of English Department faculty and friends tilled the earth outside Robinson A to prepare for the department's long-awaited Literary Garden. Where yarrow now flourishes and black-eyed Susans have begun to bloom, Mason students, faculty, and staff can enjoy a piece of poetry or a flash of prose as they walk through campus. Browse the words of William Blake, Anne Spencer, Shakespeare, and others among the natural world they describe and celebrate with us as we watch our garden grow!