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  Liverpool City Council

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  Carol Webster

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Calderstones Park – The City Park for all Seasons Calderstones Park has long been loved as one of Liverpool’s most beautiful parks, a status enhanced by its botanic garden designation. The diversity of Calderstones Park is greatly enhanced by an interesting blend of semi-natural plantings and more exotic specimen trees representing over 200 species and varieties including some rarities and with seven champion trees. One of the parks most ancient features is the Allerton Oak, allegedly around 1,000 years old. Even older are the ancient Calder Stones, Neolithic relics which gave the park its name.  Feature gardens include a glasshouse containing part of Liverpool’s historic botanical collection, a traditional garden area with annual bedding, herbaceous planting and flowering shrubs; the Old English Walled Garden, and a Japanese Garden. There is a large, well-established herbaceous border which links the gardens to a Rhododendron Walk including specimens introduced by Kingdom-Ward at the behest of the city. Collections of Prunus, Sorbus, Rose, Crateagus and Malus. Sit alongside a camellia veranda and rose garden. Throughout the park are additional features and amenities, such as the historical ha-ha, lake and ponds, rock garden, bluebell plantings, informal football, toddler play area a café, and more recently, the ‘Linda McCartney Children’s Play Area’.  The tennis courts are the venue for the annual Liverpool Amateur Tennis Championship, and since 2002 the Liverpool International tournament featuring tennis legends Ilie Nastase and Guillermo Vilas along with Marat Saffin and Martina Navratilova, who shouted out, “Calderstones Park Rocks”