Irises in the garden of Anne Hathaway’s cottage, Shottery. The plantings are supposedly of species which at least resemble those of Anne Hathaway’s times, though I suspect this may apply more to the kitchen garden area than the floral beds.
As might be expected in a prosperous market town which is also a major centre of international tourism, the plantings in the flower beds of Bancroft Gardens in Stratford on Avon are worth watching. Here are a few of the all-white flowers from a bed of irises.
I was still resting on the bench at the Fishermans Car Park in the Anglers Walk LNR when a mallard began to swim across the river, floating downstream as she did so. Following her were nine ducklings, looking like they had not long emerged from their eggs, all in a line.
Common wintercress flowering by the footpath in Anglers Walk. Apparently quite a common English wildflower, but not one I can recall ever noticing before.
I was sitting on one of the benches at the Fishermans Car Park, taking a much-needed rest after walking the length of the riverside path through the Anglers Walk nature reserve. One of the carrion crow denizens walked up to where the river had formed a shallow pool by the bank, then spent some time drinking.
A dense clump of snowdrop anemones (not, as I thought, a low shrub) in the garden of New Place in Stratford on Avon.