An Abridged Shakespeare at Hampton Court

Gardens inspired by Shakespeare’s Comedies were sponsored by the RHS. The ‘As You Like It’ garden had very appealing willow sheep,  a hawthorn tree hung with  fragments of poetry and a rather inviting oak stump shelter.  I loved the planting in the ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ garden – the inclusion of  Salvia Hotlips  with its red and white flowers may have bothered the judges (definitely not Elizabethan) but I thought it worked well among the other more traditional flowers.