Ness Botanic Gardens are near the cities of Liverpool and Chester on the English-Welsh border in the

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. They occupy a site of 64 acres overlooking the Dee Estuary. The Ness Botanic Gardens were created by Arthur Kilpin Bulley (1861-1942), a wealthy cotton trader from

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and benefited from collections by many plant hunters including George Forrest and

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. Arthur Bulley began to create the garden in 1898. In 1948, a few years after his death, his daughter Lois, gave the gardens, to the

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, under a Conditional Trust. One condition of the Trust is that the gardens must remain open to the public. They are on the

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and are Grade II. The gardens have many fine specimen trees and flowers. Magnolias, rhododendron, witch-hazels and camellias are some of the notable plant-hunted species in the garden. Snowdrop walks are conducted during the flowering season.

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Ness Botanic Gardens
Gardens in Cheshire University of Liverpool Botanical gardens in England Neston {{UK-garden-stub

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