The gardens of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford on Avon mainly feature plants which would have featured in Elizabethan/Jacobean gardens. The pictures here were taken in Hall’s Croft, the house of Shakespeare’s eldest daughter and her husband.
At the centre of the lawn at Hall’s Croft is a medlar: a tree once grown for its fruit, which are now a culinary rarity. This flower was already beginning to go over.
These are unripe mulberries
These are flowers of the holm oak, an evergreen. It probably didn’t feature in Stratford gardens during Shakespeare’s lifetime – it is originally from the Mediterranean, and most likely introduced into Britain in the seventeenth century.