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Garden
Centres
around Manchester in the Northwest
of England
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Wilmslow
Garden Centre
145
Manchester Road,
Wilmslow, Cheshire.
Tel: 01625-525 700.
A large garden centre with extensive choice of indoor and
outdoor plants, trees and shrubs as well as mechanical garden
equipment, remedial treatments and fertilisers, cane and cast
iron garden furniture, sheds and conservatories. Excellent
selection of pots and plant containers. Café-restaurant serving
a small selection of main meals and snacks, sandwiches and
toasted sandwiches. Toilets and ample car parking on site.
Licenced.
Also
includes : WILMSLOW PETS & AQUATICS
Tropical, marine and cold water fish, plants, tanks and fittings,
as well as small rodents and birds. Foods and remedial treatments
stocked.
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Brookside
Garden Centre
Macclesfield
Road, Poynton, Cheshire.
Tel: 01625-872 919 / 875 088.
Website: http://www.brookside-garden-centre.co.uk
Another
large and popular garden centre with all the usual facilities.
All garden requisites including plants, trees and shrubs for
indoors and outdoors. On site hardware and ironmongery store
and Aquatic Centre specialising in ponds and cold water fish
(including Koi), as well as a limited selection of tropical
fish. Large restaurant with full meal waitress service (no smoking).
Large on-site car parking area. Busy at weekends and holidays.
Also
on site :
Brookside Miniature Railway,
Brookside Garden Centre.
Tel: 01625-872 919. Fax: 01625-859 119.
Open April-September : Wednesdays and Sundays. July, August
: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday. October-March : Sundays
only. 11.30am-5.00pm (all days weather permitting). A pleasant
train ride through a beautiful garden centre, with 5 engines,
a complete station filled with a permanent exhibition of artefacts
and memorabilia, as well as books and models. Authentic west
country waiting room with roaring open fire. Built run and maintained
by railway enthusiasts. Free admission to the station. Train
rides at 60p per person.
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Bents
Garden Centre
Bents
Garden Centre, Warrington Road, Glazebury, Warrington WA3 5NT.
Tel: 01942-266300. Website: www.bents.co.uk
Opening
times: Monday to Friday 8.30am - 9.00pm; Saturday 8.30am - 5.30pm;
Sunday 9.00am - 5.00pm.
Last food orders at the Fresh Approach Restaurant are
½ hour before the Garden Centre closes.
Winner
of the "Best Overall Garden Centre in the UK" Award,
Bents began as a small back garden in the early 1940s and has
now grown into one of the regions largest and most favourite
for would-be gardeners. It has all the usual features and products
you'd expect of a large garden centre, as well as a café
and the Fresh Approach Restaurant. Other departments
in the centre include the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and a golf
shop. Garden Plant Advisory Service, Pets & Aquatic Centre.
More than half of all plants sold are grown in Bents' own 50
acre nurseries, and they offer a 5 year replacement guarantee
on all shrubs.
Location
Just off the A580 East Lancashire Road (out of Manchester through
Salford) at the Greyhound Roundabout. Brown tourist signs are
in evidence from here pointing the way to the Garden Centre.
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Garden
Centres & Nurseries in Greater Manchester, Lancashire &
Cheshire
All
in One Garden Centre
Rochdale Road, Middleton, Manchester.
Tel: 01706-711711.
Website: www.allinone.co.uk
Comprehensive range of trees and shrubs, self-claimed 1 million
plants always in stock, water gardens, stones, building materials.
Located off M62 Motorway Junction 19 - follow the signs.
Clarefarm
Garden Centre
Nel Pan Lane, Leigh, Wigan.
Tel: 01942-672552.
Website: www.klassickoi.com
Everything for the garden, including the largest selection of
Koi Carp in the Northwest (self claim).
Fryers
Garden Centre & Rose Nursery
Manchester Road (the A50), Knutsford.
Tel: 01565-755455.
Website: www.fryers-roses.co.uk
Garden
Needs Nurseries
1 Radford Street, Salford. Tel: 0161-792 5448.
Suppliers of seasonal plants, shrubs and trees.
Open 7 days a week from 9.00am-6.00pm.
Golden
Days Garden Centre
Manchester Road, Cheadle, Stockport SK8 2NZ.
Tel: 0161-428 3098. Fax: 0161-428 2573.
Email: goldendays@btconnect.com.
Website: www.goldendaysgardencentre.co.uk.
Lomax
Nurseries
Adswood Road, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire.
Tel: 0161-485 1824.
Open 7 days a week - specialist growers of fine plants.
High
Legh Garden Centre
High Legh, Knutsford, Cheshire.
Tel: 01925-756 991.
Website: www.highleghgardencentre.co.uk
Parkers
Garden Centre
448-452 Chester Road, Old Trafford, Manchester.
Tel: 0161-877 4247.
and
Parkers Flixton Garden Centre
Carrington Road, Flixton, Manchester.
Tel: 0161-748 5187.
Horticultural specialists in the region since 1933.
Full colour brochure available.
Battman
& Sons Garden Centre Nursery
Deansgate Lane, Timperley,
Altrincham WA15 6SQ.
Tel: 0161-928 0556.
Email: info@battmanandsons.co.uk.
Website: www.battmanandsons.co.uk
Offers garden plants, shrubs, trees and ceramic pots.
See also:
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