If anyone gets the chnace to visit the Butterfly World half finished
near the gardens of the Rose at St Albans do go.
Don't bother to park ad go in and pay the 12.50 exorbitant price, the
future gardens are awful, badly designed, ridiculous things, and not
well maintained. From a jewelled encrusted and tacky dragon to a forest
of dead trees and just three piles of chalk.
The Butterflies are housed in a small greenhouse set up and the geodesic
dome foundation (hasn't got a roof on yet is planted with thousands of
sunflowers, very few butterflies there!

BUT and it's a big but, as you go up to the car park all along the
verges for a mile or so there are thousands of wild flowers planted and
now in flower. So pretty and worth a trip in themselves. The flowers are
North American prairie ones but all easily recognisable and every colour
under the sun.
Do go if you can, just don't bother to go inside
p.s. The restaurant is inundated with wasps if that's any good!

Janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk