Every bee in Cheshire...

 ...must have been at Tatton Park today for the RHS Flower Show.

It seemed different from previous years. Less bling, more thoughtful, sustainable gardens on show, and especially a huge interest in attracting bees, both in the show gardens and in the plants on sale. It really paid off and there were masses of bees everywhere, and quite a lot of butterflies too. This was the Bees Garden, which won Florian Degroise the Young Designer of the Year award:

 

Bees and butterflies were having a field day all over Tatton Park:

 

And birds weren't forgotten either, as this attractive housing development, with rather wild garden, shows:

  This magnificent heron is part of a garden reflecting on the journey back to robust mental health which the activity of gardening can support. I loved the wild teasels, the bullrushes and the woven willow.