GREEN-fingered pensioners used a life-time's experience of gardening to create an award winning horticultural trip down memory lane.

Staff and pensioners at Greenways Court Day Centre, in Consett, set about transforming their garden into a colourful display of days gone by on a theme of Treasured Memories.

Using old materials such as enamel pots and pans they created an impressive flower arrangement and other features, such as a lily pond with tadpoles and goldfish and a paper rose tree.

The judges of this year's bloom competition recently awarded the centre the first prize in the "special feature - large" category.

Gavin Kyle, a worker at the centre, said: "We wanted to go back in time and we now have a wonderful place for clients to sit and reminisce about their childhood."