Day at Ness Gardens

Finally - after what seems like a lifetime, I finally managed to get out and spend some time taking photographs! I spent the afternoon at Ness Gardens, in Cheshire - it was a gorgeous day with some early spring flowers just starting to bloom so I was in my element. Unfortunately, I hadn’t realised it was half term in Cheshire this week so there quite a lot of families with children there, but at least I was outside and taking pictures.

Ness Gardens is a wonderful place to visit. It is close to Neston on the Wirral and easy enough to get to by car from anywhere in the northwest. It is open to the public but is actually a research centre for Liverpool University. The gardens extend over quite a large area and there are all kinds of flowers, trees, shrubs and plants in various areas there.

I enjoy photographing flowers and find dead or dying plants just as interesting as live ones, sometime more so. Even though there was not much in bloom other than some snowdrops, early daffodils and a few other spring flowers, I still found enough to keep me busy.

The day ended with a wonderful sunset as a real bonus - I managed to dash quickly over to Heswall, arriving just in time to literally grab a few shots of the sun setting over the river Dee. Sublime!