Day 229 - August 17th

Today we spent time at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. It is such a lovely peaceful place to visit and although on other occasions we have visited slightly earlier in the season there was still lots to see both outside ....

..... and inside the large domed glasshouse.

The flower beds were spectacular. Here are just a few of the photos which Lara and I took.

In the new tropical butterfly house were butterflies from across the world. They flew freely around us as we walked through but very few settled so were difficult to photograph.

Outside the garden centre shop Lara found it far easier to photograph this Peacock Butterfly which was sunning itself on a terracotta pot.

Also new this year was the 'British Bird of Prey Centre' whose home is now at the Botanic Garden. They have daily flying displays and we were able to watch one during the afternoon. Two juvenile Red Kites were part of the display and it was good to see these birds, which we regularly see flying over own own garden, up close and flying so low.