The annual Scarecrow Festival, which has gained quite a reputation for its creativity, returns to the gardens of Tatton Park next week.
In recent years the scarecrows have proven very 'adventurous' in the gardens and been found climbing up trees, heading underground hunting for moles and even scaling the walls of the mansion.
Head Gardener Simon Tetlow said: "The Scarecrow Festival is always a fantastic opportunity for our teams to flex their artistic muscles and also to provide a real early spring service – protecting our tender crops and fledging flowers from the birds."
Children will be able to take part in a quiz to find some of these characters throughout the week.
New for the 2013 edition of the quiz the scarecrows will be strictly recyclable - the whole scarecrow team will be dressed with material and items that will be re-cycled once the scarecrows have performed their garden duties.
Team members include (CD) Seedy, Miss Pot(ter), heavy metal Scrappy Ste, Shed Ned, Milk bottle Bob and Electrical Sparky! - some of which were made with the help of children from the Longridge Estate in Knutsford at their community Welcome Cafe.
At the farm visitors can search for the scarecrow characters of 'Old Macdonald and his farm', take part in a quiz and help the farm staff make scarecrows.
In the gardens on Sunday, 17th February, children will also be able to take part in a special day of additional games and activities. They will be able to help Tatton's chief scarecrow make and dress more bird-botherers for the gardens and make their own pocket-sized scarecrow.
The Scarecrow Festival runs from Saturday, February 16th to Sunday, February 24th (closed Monday 18th).
