Croxteth Hall Walled Garden

22/11/2020

Croxteth Hall is now being used as a symptom-free Covid testing centre, it's open 7am to 7pm and no booking is needed.

Why not combine a walk with getting your test.

You can see how busy it is at liverpool.gov.uk/masstesting

28/08/2019

Grapes growers on tour today
Making new friends, meeting the vegetables and sharing a communal meal
❤️

26/04/2019

Echium pininana, also called Tree Echium, Pine Echium, and Giant Viper's-Bugloss, is a flowering plant within the borage family. Endemic to the Canary Islands, where it is restricted to the island of La Palma, it is nonetheless successfully cultivated in gardens of Britian and Ireland.

Echium pininana is a biennial, showing little more than foliage in the first year, but subsequently producing a dense, 4 meter high flower spike that carries a mass of small blue flowers.

Watch this space.

24/04/2019

IN THE HERB GARDEN: Silybum Marian, more commonly known as Milk Thistle, is distinctive for its highly decorative white-veined leaves. It has many health benefits, most notably in the treatment of liver and gallbladder diseases, and is effective in cases of poisoning, including mushroom poisoning.

22/04/2019

IN THE 3/4 SPAN HOUSE: Although our greenhouses are closed at weekends The Jade Vine (Strongylodon macrobotrys) obviously didn't get the memo. Native to tropical rainforests in the Phillipines, especially the island of Luzon, the twining stems reach up to 20 meters into the forest canopy, and from these stems the Vine's long, spectacular clusters of jade-green flowers hang down.

A member of the pea family (Leguminosae) The Jade Vine is pollinated naturally by bats who come to drink the nectar. Highly threatened in the wild due to deforestation for commercial logging, The Jade Vine can only be seen growing and flowering in Britain in a few botanical gardens.

If you visit Croxteth Walled Garden this week, make sure to give this beautiful plant a viewing!

18/04/2019

05/04/2019

28/03/2019

Beautiful Magnolia stellata in the sunshine. Magnolia is an ancient genus, dating back to prehistoric times, and as a result it relies on beetles to pollinate it, which are attracted to the sweet, fragrant scent. Native to Japan, Magnolia stellata is more commonly called the 'Star Magnolia' for the shape of it's radiant petals.

28/03/2019

Croxteth Walled Garden is excited to welcome the return of its visitors! From Saturday the 6th of April, we will be open again for everyone to come in and enjoy. The gardeners and volunteers have been working hard behind the scenes to get everything ready, and we're eager to share with you what we've done.

08/03/2019

This morning Autism in Motion came to the Palm House and trained our staff and volunteers in being Autism Friendly.

The Palm House is here for everyone and inclusive for all.

Thank you to Autism In Motion - Liverpool for a wonderful, informative training session 💕