Join the Pocono Garden Club on its May 31 bus trip “Glories of Spring” to Chanticleer Garden, a contemporary garden set within a historic estate in Wayne.

The trip, which is open to the public, is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., starting at the Tannersville Fire Company on Route 611.

It will include a morning stop at The Garden Shoppe and lunch at the historic Wayne Hotel, a five-story Tudor Revival structure built in 1906.

In the afternoon, the group will go to Chanticleer, with an optional 90-minute guided tour of the grounds or explore on your own. The garden is a study of texture and forms, with such highlights as water and ruin gardens.

The estate, located near Philadelphia, dates from the early 20th-century, when land along the Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad was developed for summer homes to escape the heat of Philadelphia. Adolph Rosengarten Sr., and his wife, Christine, chose the Wayne-St. Davids area to build their country retreat. The family’s pharmaceutical firm became part of Merck & Company in the 1920s.

Rosengarten humorously named his home after the estate “Chanticlere” in Thackeray’s 1855 novel The Newcomes. The fictional Chanticlere was “mortgaged up to the very castle windows” but “still the show of the county.”

Deadline for reservations is May 24. For more information, contact trip co-chairs Joan Lippi at 732-742-3573, joanlippi@gmail.com, or Sandy Goddyne, 570-517-9795, sandyg1478@yahoo.com.

For more information about Chanticleer Garden, visit www.chanticleergarden.org.