Bud Garden Centre Ltd

He does use a chainsaw - doh. In stock now: 6ft and 8ft bean poles, 4ft flower stakes and pea sticks.

Some pots. Made in Italy, NL, Portugal, Manchester, Norfolk.

The last, best description of Trump from British writer Nate White.

I’m hosting a series of environment-themed poetry events at Manchester Poetry Library this Spring. Poets discussing place, creatures, ecological peril and how to engage with these themes (+ more). Supported by the Poetry Research Group & @centreplacewriting.bsky.social www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...

Jason has been out coppicing so we have bean poles again - 8ft, 6ft + 4ft flower stakes and pea sticks.

Note: he doesn’t use a chain saw for cutting hazel, but I like the photo and couldn’t find one of him dressing out with a billhook.

A new week: open Wed-Sat 10-5, Sunday 12-5.
Plant treasure, the best peat free growing media, pots, Niwaki tools, gifts.

Tat free zone, advice, chuckles.

Cat mad and plant mad Sue. If there was a ‘Best Garden Centre Customers’ competition, we’d win.

Great opening weekend, thanks Buddists! More of the same from Wednesday. Here’s ’our’ Robin, papped by the brilliant Tamzin Forster.

Oh I will; can’t help myself!

There's a campaign to stop the sale of plastic grass; perhaps this sort of nonsense should be included.

It's lichen :-)

Me too. Needs to be banned!

I hope you’ve learned your lesson 😆

RHS Bridgewater; a limited colour palette but still worth it.

Kinder Scout on Saturday. You can read about the NT’s peat restoration work on Kinder: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/peak-d...

Be more like Bents, they* said.

*I moaned in November about a very quiet week, which the M.E.N ran a story on. Oh the comments by the trolls.

Why isn’t this illegal?

Yes, simple things, really. Must visit soon 😊

A page from BBC Gardeners' World magazine with image of flowers and text on Your one-metre pollinator patch

Lovely to see the first of my pieces for @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social Make a Metre Matter environmental campaign in the March edition. Launch today at the Garden Press Event #MakeaMetreMatter

It’s cold and sunny in Manchester. Sunny! Things are happening at the garden centre; an awakening that builds week on week.

However, I do feel listless and am struggling to write my monthly newsletter: this is Bud’s 15th year (😝) and I feel like I’m rehashing the same old stuff.

We’re reopening on Thursday 27th Feb. We always have a winter break because… it’s cold in winter in Manchester and I don’t want to attract people to my business by selling shite made in the far east or with the promise of coffee and cake.

Bergs Potter pots, summer ‘24.

Thanks. I prefer human contact, though I know that I’d make more money selling online. I can’t imagine spending my days putting stuff in boxes 😬

Country diary: An eruption of the most delightful, sociable ‘bumbarrels’ | Jim Perrin Llandrindod Wells, Powys: Moving in joyful groups through the copse, long-tailed tits are admirably cooperative, the perfect paradigm of a mutually helpful society

Ooo, bumbarrels! One of my favourite birds flitting through today's @theguardian.com country diary by Jim Perrin.

#naturewriting #countrydiary

About Bud. Yeah, basically screenshotted an Instagram post. What’s a busy person to do?

We’re reopening on Thursday 27th Feb at 10am.

Boycott Amazon.

He’s just a wonderful little creature 😍 and I adore him!

That’s just too cute, Pete!
Thank you 😊

We don’t, keepin’ it real, sorry.

About Bud. Yeah, basically screenshotted an Instagram post. What’s a busy person to do?

We’re reopening on Thursday 27th Feb at 10am.

Boycott Amazon.

My pud, Phife Dawg: new, like me, to Bluesky.

Open Gardens Burnage & Levenshulme 1st June (and perhaps 31st May too). Here’s a fantastic tropical yard in Lev, open for the first time in 2023 and hopefully open again in 2025 🤞

A long shot, but I'm after some tech support (paid!). We've launched a new website. Issue is (roughly): "We are unable to use #Office365 to send custom emails via #laravel #php app. And/or O365 is not allowing us to create app password in Microsoft admin manager" Tried reddit/forums etc. Pse RT