Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden
Riverside rock and alpine gardens with a historic parsonage, tea rooms and the birthplace of the RSPB.
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This guide to Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden in Didsbury, Manchester, follows Emily Williamson, who lived at The Croft beside the rock gardens and made the alpine garden with her husband. It moves between a Victorian hat trade that valued feathers above gold, an afternoon tea in eighteen eighty-nine, and a public vote in twenty twenty-one over how a sculptor should remember her. Best heard on the paths below the Alpine Terrace.
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