SHREWSBURY – Twenty-three years ago, Shrewsbury’s Garden of Sweet Remembrance was a memory itself. Maybe less than a memory – a wreck. Once part of a sprawling estate, the garden was an afterthought, a remnant from a bygone era.
Wisteria vines made the historic garden impassable.
“This entire area, all of it – it looked as though God had spilled a gigantic bowl of brown spaghetti on it. The trees were draped with vines. It enveloped everything. Trees died. You couldn’t move. It was chaos,” said Christopher Kirk…