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Victoria Park Butterfly House and Garden

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Victoria Park Butterfly House and Garden

Tropical Butterflies, Glasshouse, Garden. Open Spring/Summer Victoria Park Butterfly House and Garden is only open during the warm months in spring & summertime.

Season opening times for each year will be pinned on our front page. Sometimes these do have to change at short notice due to lack of volunteer availability. Children under 16 years must be accompanied by an adult. Dogs cannot be brought into the Butterfly House, apart from Assistance Dogs, who are welcome. The glasshouse is wheelchair accessible. Last entry is 15 minutes before closing. We also host additional events in the glasshouse on specific dates. Watch our page for news & full details of these. Victoria Park Butterfly House, Widnes, first opened in 2014 and is run entirely by unpaid volunteers. It costs around £2,000 just to purchase the tropical butterflies for each season and the Butterfly House has no source of funding. It is completely reliant on donations and volunteers giving us their time in order to stay open. Entry is free and members of the public who visit have the opportunity to give donations if they are able to. The adjacent Community Garden is an ecologically managed home for native butterflies and nature in our area of the North West. Both the Butterfly House and Garden are open during summer months and we have up to 10,000 visitors per season to this free community asset. We want to keep entry free and all donations from the public go to buying the pupae, feeding the butterflies and planting & repairing the butterfly environment. In winter the volunteers look after the plants, prepare for opening next season & fundraise to cover the cost of the butterflies and caring for their habitat. Please help us keep this restorative educational oasis in Widnes alive. If you would like to make a donation, or if you are interested in volunteering please do contact us on [email protected] for more information. The Victoria Park Environment Team (VPET) Volunteers thank you for your interest and support :0)

We are a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) with registered Charity Number: 1214001

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01/11/2026

The volunteers have been busy readying the Remembrance Day display inside the Butterfly House. Viewing will be next weekend:
Saturday 7th Nov 12-3pm and
Sunday 8th Nov 9.30am - 12.30pm either side of the Service at the War Memorial.

Huge thanks to HBC Culture26 for the generous grant which enabled this project to come to life.

❤️❤️❤️We Will Remember Them. ❤️❤️❤️

Please share this post so as many people as possible get chance to visit.

28/10/2026

🌼 Save a Seed, Grow a Garden 🌼

Meadow & Wildlife Plants

Collect:

- Teasel
- Yarrow
- Knapweed
- Fennel

Even after the leaves have died back, many seed heads remain standing and are easy to spot.

Probably your last chance to collect seeds until next season. Watch out for more information about our Seed Swap event in the new year.

08/10/2026

🌼 Save a Seed, Grow a Garden 🌼

Wildflowers & Late Bloomers

Collect:

- Verbena bonariensis
- Ox-eye daisy
- Red campion
- Field scabious
- Teasel
- Any other blooms that have gone to seed.

Many of these are fantastic for butterflies and other pollinators.

Collect your seeds on a sunny dry afternoon and remember to let your seeds dry out completely before storing them until the new year.

05/10/2026

Back in June, we hosted Dawnstar Gaming for their second session of Culture 26: Made in Halton, Forged in Adventure.

Their adventures end live on stage at The Brindley later this month. Tickets are still available and you can even become part of the adventure too.

Thursday 22nd October 2026 | 6pm | Studio | £7.50, £5.50Prices include booking fee.Dawnstar Gaming CIC presents Made in Halton! Forged in Adventure! — The Culture 26 tabletop storytelling project, culminating in The Eightfold Silence live finale at The Brindley Studio.Built through a series of s...

01/10/2026

Despite the weather turning cooler in recent weeks, there are still some moths and butterflies to be seen in October.

30/09/2026

29/09/2026

⏰ Last chance tomorrow!

Our Remembrance Day photograph appeal closes tomorrow, Wednesday 30th September.

If you've been meaning to send us a photograph of a relative who served in the Armed Forces, there's still time.

📧 [email protected]
or add the photograph to the Remembrance thread on our page.

Please include their name and regiment/service if you know them.

🌺 Thank you to everyone who has already shared a photograph. We are creating something very special to remember the people who served in our community.

28/09/2026

🦋 Thank you for another wonderful season

And that's a wrap on the 2026 Butterfly House season! 🦋🌺

After months of planning, growing, planting, pupae arriving, butterflies emerging and — most importantly — welcoming visitors through our doors, we've reached the end of another fantastic season.
We'd like to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has visited us this year - over 10,000 of you 🤩

Thank you for:
🦋 Coming to see our butterflies
🌺 Enjoying our garden
💜 Supporting us with your donations and shop purchases
📸 Sharing your photographs and memories
❤️ Telling your friends and family about us
🙋‍♀️ And simply taking the time to visit and support your local Butterfly House.

But most of all, thank you to our amazing volunteers. The Butterfly House simply wouldn't happen without the people who give their time freely throughout the season — preparing the house, looking after the plants and butterflies, welcoming visitors, running the shop and keeping everything going behind the scenes.

We couldn't do it without you. ❤️

We've had another wonderful season and it's been fantastic to see so many familiar faces as well as LOTS of new visitors.

We'll now be taking a little rest before we start getting ready for next season!

And remember, although the butterflies have flown away for the winter, there's still plenty happening at the Butterfly House & Garden, so keep following our page for news, events, gardening projects and updates.

🌺 Thank you for helping make the Butterfly House so special. 🌺

See you in 2027! 🦋

27/09/2026

🦋 TODAY'S THE DAY! 🦋

Our FINAL opening day of the 2026 season is TODAY!

After another fantastic season filled with butterflies, visitors, volunteers and lots of wonderful memories, it's time for our last day.
If you've been putting off your visit — today is your last opportunity this year!

Come along, enjoy the butterflies, have a wander around the garden and help us give the 2026 season a fantastic send-off. 🌺🦋

We'd love to see you today! 10.30am - 1pm

26/09/2026

🦋 TOMORROW! 🦋

It's nearly time to say goodbye to our butterflies for another year.

Tomorrow — Sunday 27th September — is our FINAL opening day of the 2026 season. Open 10.30-1pm.

If you've been meaning to visit, tomorrow is your last chance!
Come and enjoy the butterflies and garden one more time before we close for the winter.

🌺 We'd love to see you!

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Birchfield Road
Widnes
WA87SU

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