I would also like to announce that we are expanding our accessibility through Facebook and Twitter (links at bottom of page). We will be doing daily updates of specials, sales, and events. Plus, you can view pictures, post and read reviews, and have discussions with us and our “fans” of the English Hedgerow.

We hope to see you on our pages so we can interact with you!

Gourmet Wine Dinner: Saturday, Sept 19th 2009

Click here for: Dinner Menu – with wine pairings

English Hedgerow is open once a month to the public for our gourmet wine dinners. Multi-course chef’s kitchen dinners, by Chef Oliver, involving the freshest local produce available.

6 Courses ~ $50 per guest: wine pairing provided by the Corkscrew Wine Emporium for an additional $15 per person (optional).

1 seating ~ 7pm start time, with the first course at 7:15

Reservation Only ~ please have credit card details available to hold your reservation, ph: 217-365-0055

Holiday Planning

Although it is only the middle of September, now is the time to start thinking about holiday party planning.

We offer many services to make your holidays special and easier on you!

We can do your decorations, floral centerpieces, appetizers, full dinners, or you could even have your holiday party at the English Hedgerow; so you don’t have to clean up before and after.

Also, this is the second year the Hedgerow Bistro will be offering a take and bake Thanksgiving Dinner. It includes all of the fixings such as stuffing, gravy, potatoes, fresh homemade dinner rolls, vegetables, pies, and of course…the turkey. We are taking orders now so please give us a call or drop us an email.

Hedgerow Bistro and Catering News

The Hedgerow Bistro is incorporating a daily special starting this week. Today we had a Roasted Portobello Sandwich which was simply delicious. Other specials yet to be seen will be lamb burgers, kebabs, heirloom tomato and fresh mozzarella salad (right), and English “Fish and Chips” Fridays will be restored.

Also, we will be revamping the lunch menu in the next month or two, so keep your eyes peeled for the fun new menu items!

News from the Flowershop

Helen Philpott, Owner and Floral Director

My favorite fall poem:

To Autumn - by John Keats

SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,

And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

And still more, later flowers for the bees,

Until they think warm days will never cease,

For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

Autumn Mist over

Hereford's Weir Garden

Upcoming Events - to see us at:

Vow Magazine ‘I Do’ Bridal Show at the Hilton Garden, September 13^th

Bridal Show at the Hawthorn Suites, September 20^th

Illini Radio Group Wedding Show at the Hilton Garden, November 4^th

Bridal University workshop - thursday evening, November 19^th, details: BridalU.net

Oskee Booo Wow, Tuesday evening October 27^th at the Vet school; a party for people who love pets. Hosted by 1^st Dog, Webster White. Hedgerow dogs, Tess and Diesel, will be giving a prize for the most original dog costume.

Champaign County Courthouse Clock Tower Renovation Project

New clock hands cast at the English Hedgerow Foundry

As many of you know, the historic Champaign County Courthouse, located on Courthouse Square in downtown Urbana has just completed a 10 year renovation project. The bell in the refurbished clock tower chimed at 10 a.m. Saturday August 29^th for the first time in more than a decade.

It was in 1883, when the Seth Thomas clock was installed in the third County Courthouse with the advent of National Standard Time. It supplied time to four sets of hands on each side of the Courthouse Tower.

Local skilled tradesmen and engineers donated time to get its old clock back into working order.

We at English Hedgerow were proud to be a small part of this team. Helen’s husband, a mechanical engineer and hobbyist foundryman, cast the four sets of clock hands, making patterns from the original prints.

New Store Items

Jewelry made from recycled watch parts ~ really cool & unusual
Novel Gift Ideas from Crabtree & Evelyn
Permanent Botanicals ~ convincingly realistic, you’ll have to feel to check if they’re real!
Contemporary containers ~ fabulous filled with flowers, elegant enough to stand alone (left)

Coming Soon

• New Sid Dickens tiles arriving very soon.

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All photos by Elizabeth Calabria (unless noted otherwise)