bower

A bower of roses, fragrant herbs and bodacious blooms might set one gardener’s heart aflutter, while another finds the sweet spot among spiky agaves, exotic palms or a bountiful row of summer raspberries.

If you have been there for a festive brunch on the graceful patio with its bowers of bougainvillea, you may understand.

This wooded bower was where Yakov had died, but not where his night had begun.

Today, a cafe occupies part of the ground floor, its tables and chairs distributed under a leafy bower on the veranda.

As it did in Robert Longbottom’s 2019 production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical “Into the Woods,” which coincidentally also follows a group of rowdy, mixed-up characters into a supernatural bower.