A GARDENER who has been adding a splash of colour to a Wirral village for more than 40 years says he is delighted that his floral display has been gathering interest across the world.

Former Unilever worker Cliff Jones has been planting flowers outside his Port Sunlight home since he first moved there in 1971.

Each year, the 79-year-old chooses a different flower to fill his planters and hanging baskets

This year, Cliff’s doorstep is surrounded by beautiful begonias, lobelia and petunias.

But while the flowers are for Cliff’s own enjoyment, they have been attracting people from across the globe.

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“We get a lot of people coming to tour the village and they’ve been stopping to take photographs of my flowers,” said father-of-two Cliff, who has dozens of medals and certificates from various flower shows.

“Every time they come, they call again – I’ve had people from Australia, China, Italy, all over the place coming to look at my flowers.

“We had 20 people on day all from China touring the village and they came and knocked on the door and asked permission to take photographs.

“There was a wedding party taking photographs from the bridge down the Dell – they came over and had their photographs taken outside my house with the flowers behind them.”

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Cliff, whose garden has even been featured in Cheshire Life, added: “It’s just a hobby, I’m doing it for myself. I just do it every year for myself - I have an allotment too.”

Among his floral achievements are awards from Highgrove, the Chrysanthemum Society and Port Sunlight’s most colourful frontage.