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Ness Botanic Garden tel: 0151 3530123 Area: Cheshire |
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| Visitor Information | www.nessgardens.org.uk -- email: nessgdns {at} liv.ac.uk | ||||||||||
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Ness Botanic Garden |
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| Opening Days and Hours | |||||||||||
Every day except Christmas Day; 1st Feb - 31st Oct; 10am - 5pm; |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes Preferably |
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House
Open for Viewing: no |
National
Garden Scheme days: no |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: Spring / early Summer. |
To
see: Rhododendrons, azaleas, magnolias and camellias. |
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| Admission Prices | |||||||||||
| Adult £6.50; Child free under 5 accompanied by adult; Child 5-16 years £3; Over 60s & disabled £5.50; Family (2A + 3C) £18 Groups of 20+ people £5.25pp. Guide up to 30 people £30. Carers free. Winter rate £4pp |
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| Onsite Facilities | |||||||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: No Special Events: Yes |
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| Other
Facilities: Snowdrop Weekend Walks Saturday 31st January & Sunday 1st February - Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th February - Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th February 2009. 10.30am - 12.30pm Plant Hunters Fair - 29th March 10am - 4pm; £1 entry Free Sunday lectures - 2.30pm in Lecture Theatre |
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| Garden Features | |||||||||||
| A new garden entrance and visitor centre will be completed by Easter. In a single storey open plan it will include a central courtyard area with entrance, reception area, indoor cafe with outside garden eating area, administration and staff offices, shop, exhibition room, conservatory and lecture theatre. | English Heritage Garden Grade: II | ||||||||||
| National Collection: Willows | |||||||||||
| Description of Garden | Designer:
Arthur Kilpin Bulley |
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| The conservatory, with its Acacias and group of Echium pininana, is closed temporarily but the visitor reaches the Rhododendron border and the historically important specimen lawn which contains Magnolia, Sorbus and Pieris formosa "Forrestii" from the golden age of plant collecting. The glasshouses are divided into temperate and arid zones with displays of orchids, amongst others. The herb garden, azalea border and herbaceous area are not to be missed and there is a heather garden, rock garden, woodland garden, water garden and arboretum. Finally at the perimeter of the garden is the willow collection. The visitor also encounters the Jubilee Garden which was completed in 1977. A new garden entrance and visitor centre is under construction. | |||||||||||
| History of Garden | |||||||||||
| Arthur Kilpin Bulley, a Liverpool seed merchant, began to create the garden in 1898. He was interested in introducing new plant species from abroad and believed that Himalayan and Chinese mountain plants could be established in Britain. He tested this by sponsoring many expeditions to the Far East and thereby launched the careers of renowned plant collectors such as George Forrest and Frank Kingdon Ward. Some of his rhododendron and camellia introductions were widely used for hybridisation and this together with his propagation programme resulting in his company, Bees Ltd, offering newly introduced species to the public from 1911 on, had important repercussions for British gardening. Arthur Bulley died in 1942 and his daughter, Lois, presented the gardens three years later to Liverpool University, with a generous endowment of £75,00 on condition they be kept as botanic gardens. Ken Hulme became Director in 1957 and, envisaging a more naturalised setting for the plants than had interested Bulley, he removed the hedges compartmentalising the garden, increased the area of the gardens from 6 to 64 acres and created superb collections of rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias and heathers. |
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| Nearby Cheshire Hotels, Facilities & Amenities | |||||||||||
| Hotels
& Accommodation: Craxton Wood, Puddington Ship Hotel, Parkgate Burton Manor Hotel, Burton |
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| Inns & Pubs: Wheatsheaf, Ness Fox & Hounds, Barnston |
Villages / Towns
/ Sightseeing: Parkgate |
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