1 It’s lovely that the days are so much longer and that we now get the evening sunshine across the back garden. This was truly a golden hour.
2 Today is Shakespeare’s Birthday and also the date of his death. He was born in 1564 and died in 1616 so all those wonderful plays and poems were written by the time he reached 52! The Globe Theatre in London have made this delicious looking cake in his honour.
Globe cake by Shakespeare’s Globe
3 My Suffragette garden, planted in purple, white and green to honour the Suffragettes, especially my Great Granny who was imprisoned in Holloway for her actions, is looking beautiful at the moment as the purple tulips are joining the white ones.
Beautifully blousy tulips
Plain purple tulip
Dewdrops on a feathery purple tulip
Beautiful green markings
Fallen petal
Tightly furled
Feathery tulip with the sun shining through