National Wildflower Centre

Centre Information
Our visitor demonstration areas are now open and our award winning Cornflower Café here at the National Wildflower Centre is welcoming visitors 7 days a week, 10am to 5pm (last entry 4.pm).

As always our conference rooms are available for bookings, if you are looking for a natural alternative to the hustle and bustle of city based venues, please do give us a call. If you have any queries about the Centre, please do not hesitate to contact us on 0151 738 1913. Email.

2010 EVENTS LEAFLET Download (pdf)

Get Growing!
We are really pleased to welcome our new Horticultural Project Officer, Stuart Kitchen who started on February 1st. Landlife successfully bid to lead on a new community food growing and cooking skills programme in Knowsley, with funding from the Knowsley Health & Wellbeing Partnership. Called Get Growing!, NWC is a key partner to get more people actively growing vegetables and learning more about cooking with them for healthy eating. Stuart will be supporting Knowsley residents and community groups to get gardening with veg, by running hands on, creative events and arranging informal training to build confidence and skills. He will also be encouraging people to cook from scratch and discover more about good, local food. Get Growing runs until July 31st 2011 and Stuart Kitchen is based at NWC here in Court Hey Park. To get involved or for more information contact skitchen@landlife.org.uk or tel 0151 738 1913

New Conference Rooms
Great News, we now have even more space available for hire. Our new Wildflower Rooms - Primrose, Teasel, Foxglove and Poppy join the Old Stable Block rooms, Library and Classroom for great affordable conference facilities. All refreshments and lunches are served in the Cornflower Café, which continues to provide a wide selection of refreshments and delicious lunchtime buffets

Schools Scarecrow Festival
Our first ever Schools Scarecrow Festival took place on the 18th and 19th of July 2009 with over 20 local schools taking part.
The winning scarecrows can be viewed here.

Merseyside Transport Awards - Winner
Landlife's Great Outdoors project based at the National Wildflower Centre was thrilled to be one of the lucky winners at the Merseyside Transport awards on Tuesday 13th October 2009, winning the WalkWise Award for best walking initiative or achievement. More

Landlife's Great Outdoors project based at the National Wildflower Centre was thrilled to be one of the lucky winners at the Merseyside Transport awards on Tuesday 13th October 2009, winning the WalkWise Award for best walking initiative or achievement. MoreNational Wildflower Centre secures £200,000 for Inspire

The Centre has secured £200,000 of funding from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) towards its plan to build a new educational, conference and seed production complex. The scheme, designed by Manchester-based Ian Simpson Architects, faced a public consultation meeting on 20 November before a planning application can be submitted.

Richard Tracey, head of environmental quality, NWDA said: "The aspiration to produce a new educational and visitor facility that will engage young people in exploring mathematics and science through wildflowers is an admirable and exciting one which has a potentially strong resonance with the agency's environmental quality and skills agenda." more

NWC on Twitter
Thanks to new volunteer Susan we now have more presence on the web.
Please pay a visit to Susan's Twitter page here.
And there's a page called 'Where the Wildflowers Are' here.
Lastly there's a new Facebook page here.
Don't forget our NWC You tube Channel here .

Knowsley Flower Show
The eleventh Knowsley Flower Show took place Sunday 9th August 2009 and around 18,000 visitors came to Court Hey Park for the event. Check out the website for more www.knowsleyflowershow.com


Web only Seed & Plants offer
Landlife Wildflowers has 2 web only offers to buy native plants and seeds. A box of 20 mixed wildflower plants saving £3, Cornfield Annuals for just £6 saving £2 on 100g Buy here.


New Building Design Project for NWC
Our latest development project is the design of an innovative,
architecturally striking educational, conference and seed production complex at the National Wildflower Centre. With funding of £100,000 provided by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), we have launched a RIBA-run architectural design competition. More

The NWC is a quality visitor attraction
We are delighted to be retaining our VAQAS mark for 2009. VAQAS is the Visitor Attraction Quality Assurance Scheme. It is VisitBritain’s quality assessment service for all types of visitor attractions throughout England. Check out their website at www.vaqas.org.uk for more information

We've struck Green Gold!
The National Wildflower Centre is delighted to have achieved a Gold Level for Green Tourism. The Centre has retained a Gold standard from the Green Tourism Business Scheme (GTBS) for being a very green business with staff committed to sustainability. The Centre was the first Tourist attraction in the North West to receive the award back in 2005. There are hundreds of businesses in the region trying to reduce their carbon footprints through the GTBS. Businesses are awarded Gold, Silver or Bronze for their efforts to be more sustainable. Press release

The Bluebell Sculpture
National Wildflower centre project to create a sensory sculpture for our woodland area in partnership with Mencap Liverpool's Access to heritage Project. See how this unique and ground-breaking project is enabling access to heritage venues for people with learning disabilities. Visit the site here


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Artists Jan Bell and Caroline Hunt for Heritage Lottery Fund Wildflower
Heroes Project. This unique icon can be found in the main courtyard. Pictures of the creation of this unique icon can be viewed here


Summer Palace
This outdoor creative display celebrates people and nature. Summer Palace creates echoes of walled gardens, hidden retreats and tea pavilions and is now on site at the National Wildflower Centre. More


Volunteers
We have vacancies across the Centre for volunteers to become involved in our work, not just potting plants, but welcoming visitors, assisting on workshops, and in many other ways. Please contact us if you would like to help.

National Wildflower Centre on film
So you can enjoy our spring and summer displays of wildflowers a series of short video films are available here.