Tatton Park Gardens

It being officially Spring this weekend and with snow forecast for Sunday

thought it might be nice looking back on a visit to Tatton Park in Cheshire

We visited on our way home from our trip to Liverpool where I was born

Had a wonderful visit but got caught up in a nasty 3 hour traffic hold up on the motorway later in the day, it was late Friday afternoon

It was so bad when we reached the M25 London Orbital

that we decided to go and spend some time in the service station hoping that later the traffic would ease

We had been in the service station for 5 minutes when there was a complete power failure

So with no refreshment of any kind and no light there was nothing for it but to get back on the road along with just about everybody else who did not want to sit in the dark surrounded by strangers

What happened to the days when one could just have handed over money for purchases and not worry about any change if the tills were down

In the modern days of computerised everything this is just not possible

Tatton Park is an award winning estate with a neo-classical mansion, gardens, working farm and deer park

We only had time to visit the gardens and mansion

I did not take photos of the mansion because they were in the middle of extensive renovations and the signs and scaffolding did not look too pretty

The theme of Victorian grandeur extends from the house into the garden, with its Fernery, Orangery, Rose garden, Tower garden, Pinetum and Italian and Japanese gardens.

Our time of visit was May so the Azaleas and Rhodedandrums were blooming