My name is Susan and I have just started volunteering at the visitor attraction near Liverpool. I will be helping with digital marketing once a week and getting to know all about the National Wildflower Centre. This is the office building where I work, it has great views overlooking lots of wildflowers and there are lots of happy faces smiling back at me - 
If you look closely you'll see that they are scarecrows made by schoolchildren from Liverpool and Knowsley.
Today we have quite a few visitors in who have travelled up as a coach party from down South. They are also admiring our friendly scarecrows! Here are some photographs I took of them last week.
We have lots of events and workshops taking place all year round at the National Wildflower Centre too, today we have visitors who have enrolled on our free How to make a wildflower meadow course which is supported by the Great Outdoors Project. 
Tomorrow's minibeast model making workshop looks set to be a sell out too, there's certainly lots of inspiration to be found around the centre. Today I've seen lots of slugs who have come out after the rain, last week was drier and I saw bees, butterflies and this tiny spider!
Tomorrow's minibeast model making workshop looks set to be a sell out too, there's certainly lots of inspiration to be found around the centre. Today I've seen lots of slugs who have come out after the rain, last week was drier and I saw bees, butterflies and this tiny spider!My first experience of the National Wildflower Centre was when I visited the Knowsley Flower Show here earlier in the month. I really enjoyed looking around all the stalls and picked up a few treats from the farmer's market, including delicious vegetarian black pudding and a scrumptious flapjack. I also enjoyed seeing the birds of prey demonstrations although everyone held their breath when one bird flew off into the distance and looked like it was going to come back!
Speaking of good food I have also enjoyed my first lunch at the centre's Cornflower Cafe and have tested the delicious cake too! Last week I had a very filling cauliflower, potato and leek bake - yum yum! The cafe is open Monday to Friday all year round and at weekends during the visitor season.
Well I hope I've given you a little taste of the National Wildflower Centre, if you'd like to know more, I'll be updating this blog every Wednesday and you can also visit our website at www.nwc.org.uk, or take a look at our flickr group, our facebook fan of page or follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/WildflowerNWC we look forward to hearing from you soon!
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