Day 173 - June 21st

Wayne grew some cornflowers this year. Its surprising how many different varieties come form one packet of seeds.

Day 172 - June 20th

Millie doesn't enjoy the heat and is happy to snooze the day away. 

Day 171 - June 19th

I had rather a lot of clementines, so today I found a recipe and baked a clementine cake. It contained 4 whole clementines which were pureed, skin and all before adding to the cake mixture. It was quite a stodgy cake but was lovely with a scoop of ice cream as a dessert.  

 

Day 170 - June 18th

The alstroemeria plants in my Mum & Dad's garden always look a picture at this time of year.

Day 169 - June 17th

Craft time.

Day 168 - June 16th

Happy Father's Day

Day 167 - June 15th

Today I watched some of the Trooping the Colour, also known as 'The King's Birthday Parade' on the television, including the Fly Past by the RAF and the appearance of the Royal Family on the balcony at Buckingham Palace.

Day 166 - June 14th

So glad that the rain stayed away until today because the past two days, which we spent mostly outside, just wouldn't have been the same if it had rained.

 

Day 165 - June 13th

Warning - heavy photo post

Today we visited the BBC Gardeners World Live Show at NEC Birmingham.

Rain was threatened so we started the day outside looking at the show gardens and browsing the Plant Village.

We then moved into the Floral Marquee where nurseries and specialist growers had their plants on display. This year the UK International Orchid Show was also being held in the Floral Marquee.

There was so much to see with lots of trade stalls, talks and demonstrations and we even saw some filming taking place for the BBC TV show.