The RHS Tatton Park Flower Show takes place now from 21 to 25 July 2021 inclusive.

Wednesday is the RHS Members only Day and the show then runs through to Sunday 25 July 2021 from 10am to 6pm.  The show is in Knutsford, Cheshire.

There are fabulous garden displays and you can pick up big ideas for small spaces from the Back to Back gardens.   Young Designers have put a spotlight on a range of social and environment issues.

You can attend talks and demonstrations, stroll through a floral marquee and plant village, and browse the Country Living Pavilion for shopping!

Now, if you can’t get to the RHS Tatton Park Flower Show, you could visit it on the television!   Take a look at BBC2 on Friday 23 July at 19:00 and Saturday 24 July, also at 19:00.

Visit the RHS website here

Did you see the Euro2020 football match between England and Denmark on Wednesday night?   Wasn't it exciting?  I really felt for the goalkeepers and players at such a tense moment.   Well done to everyone involved!

Anyway, the match took place at Wembley and if you've got a football lover in your life, you could give them a Wembley Stadium Tour as a gift!

This isn't a gift membership, but it's a chance to go behind the scenes and find out what Wembley is like there.

Virgin Experience Days have stadium tours for one adult, for two adults, for an adult and child, and for two adults and two children.  

You can take in the changing rooms, the players' tunnel and the dug outs on tours that last about 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Kick off to go to Virgin Experience Days to find out more

By the way, Virgin Experience Days have football gifts and tours for fans of Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs, Fulham, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Millwall, Newcastle United and the London Stadium.  Find out more here

I've just checked the TV listing guides and noticed that tonight (Sunday 4 July 2021), the Antiques Roadshow comes from the National Botanic Garden of Wales.

The garden is situated in the absolutely stunning Carmarthenshire.   I remember as a little girl visiting my grandparents there and we used to go to the market in Carmarthen every Wednesday.   We had lovely holidays, visiting the beach, enjoying the scenery, playing with buckets and spade on the sand - they were great times!

Anyway, the National Botanic Garden of Wales has a gift membership.  If you're looking for a gift for someone who loves botanical gardens, take a look at this one. 

 
Find out more about gift memberships here

Your gift will help the charity continue with its research work.  It's involved in a number of projects including Plants for Pollinators, Saving Pollinators and Saving Plants and Fungi.   It is also involved in Biophilic Wales, a project to increase the wellbeing of people and wildlife and the envrionment throughout the beautiful country of Wales. 

Gift memberships also give the garden lover in your life lots of lovely benefits such as: 

• Free entry for the duration of your membership - please note some exclusions apply.
• Members’ coffee mornings; talks, tours and trips to other gardens
• Annual garden party – a special ‘members-only’ day with talks, workshops and events
• Varied and full events calendar throughout the year: talks, concerts, food and craft fairs, music, theatre, and horticultural events

There's also free entry to a number of botanic gardens in the UK, plus 10% discount in the Botanic Garden Gift shop and discounts on courses in the Garden.  

Visit the National Botanic Garden of Wales' website here

Plantlife is one of my favourite charities.   If you're looking for a gift membership for someone who loves flowers and wildflowers in particular, and wants to help with conservation, please take a look at its website. 

Wild flowers , plants and fungi are essential for all our wildlife.  There's nothing like seeing a beautiful roadside verge full of wild-flowers, or a wild-flower meadow.   

Plantlife work to raise awareness of the importance of wildflowers, plants and fungi and to protect them so that future generations can enjoy them and that wildlife can continue to benefit from them.   

Get involved in Plantlife and conservation!

We can all get involved in their work, by going on a Great British Wildflower Hunt, taking part in No Mow May (leave some of your lawn uncut and then you can work out how many bees and butterflies the area would support - Every Flower Counts!  They have a cowslip survey and of course, they have a Road Verge Campaign.   The good news is that many councils are taking steps to make road verge management more sustainable and wildlife-friendly. 

Give a gift membership!

Membership benefits include Plant Life magazine three times a year, a free identification guide, information on how to grow wild flowers in your garden and priority access to selected events.

Give a gift membership to Plantlife
Image ©Plantlife

Other ways to support Plantlife and its vital conservation work include:

• Adopt an acre
• Adopt a veteran tree
• Adopt a reserve
• Adopt a flower
• Make a donation
• Support an appeal

You can do all of these things through Plantlife's online shop.