Castle Gardens

Rose Garden

One of my favourite things on Sunday was the garden tour. It was identical to the tour I got this past fall, but it was so lovely to see the gardens again. The rose garden especially, although beautiful last September, is much more in bloom right now.

entrance to Elizabethan Garden

Looking back to the castle along the Queen's Walk in
the Elizabethan Garden

Same place, opposite direction: along the Queen's Walk
away from the castle, towards the Rose Garden

Rose Garden

Rose Garden

label in the Rose Garden. It seemed like every clump
of roses was a different variety. 

bridge flowers

through a garden gate to the moat

garden walls

Elizabethan Garden, facing away from the castle

"Reading Angel" in the Rose Garden

Rose Garden

facing into the Shakespeare Garden from the Rose Garden.
This used to be the changing house when there was a pool
in the Shakespeare Garden location

Shakespeare Garden (only grows plants named in one
of Shakespeare's plays. We sometimes had Shakespeare
class out here last fall)

Shakespeare Garden

At the back of the Shakespeare Garden

entrance to the Magic (aka Shady) Garden

Magic/Shady Garden

Butterfly Garden

Herb Garden (wheelchair accessible; notice
the raised beds)

between gardens