Whit Sunday in the garden

[shewhomust]

We might have gone to the Amble Puffin Festival yesterday; it's something we've enjoyed in the past. But it's a long wy, and it was hot - not as hot as it has been in the south of the country, but hot enough that the lazy option looked very attractive. So we went for a stroll in Crook Hall gardens; the kind of stroll that consists mostly in moving from one seat to the next, making the most of every patch of shade.

This particular green shade is in the 'Shakespeare Garden':

I know that the idea of a 'Shakespeare Garden' is to include every plant mentioned by the poet, but all I could find about this particular one is this ten-year old article, which describes it as an aspiration. I suspect that the yew tree is carrying a lot of the load here, though the dominant theme seems to be the purple globes of alliums.

Meanwhile, the cathedral supplied a musical background with a sustained peal.

Comments

[sovay]

This particular green shade is in the 'Shakespeare Garden'

That is a gorgeous shot. It's unrelievedly grey here.

[shewhomust]

Thank you.

[cmcmck]

It was just over 30 here today.

[shewhomust]

I do not envy you!