Capital of Horticulture! Liverpool’s famous collection back on display

Aug 16 2007 by Alan Weston, Liverpool Daily Post

Capital of Horticulture! Liverpool’s famous collection back on display

VISITORS to Croxteth Hall & Country Park can now see plants from Liverpool’s Botanical Collection for the first time in more than 20 years.

They have gone on display in the glass houses and walled gardens as the first step in bringing the collection – one of the largest in civic hands – back to public attention.

Approximately one-third of the plants and flowers can now be seen, including the once world-famous orchid collection.

The rest of the collection will remain in nurseries for the time being, with the intention of reuniting it in a permanent home at some future point.

Established by William Roscoe in 1802, the complete botanical collection has not been on display since 1984.