Bents

[poliphilo]

We went to Bents- the big garden centre in Glazebury. We  thought the prices were a bit steep- but Glazebury is Cheshire, so I suppose this is where the footballers' wives come to buy their bedding plants. A family of robins has colonised the main building- and there they were- almost close enough to touch- hopping about among the displays. 

I might have bought some pansies- to stiffen up the ranks in the front yard- but I wasn't going to pay twice what I paid for the same product in Wilkinson's in down-at-heel Middleton.

There's a pretty good restaurant. The berry compote or blanchemange or whatever (I chose by sight not off the menu) - was lovely.

Comments

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

I see what you did there in that first picture! I'm not going to ask....I'm not going to ask....I'm not going to ask...OK, I'm going to ask...

What the heck is that thing sitting in the shopping cart? It looks like an alien, which I simply can't imagine at a garden centre.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

I want to know, too! It looks to me like a dead dinosaur.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think it's a dead dinosaur too. But only the limbs were present. I've no idea where the rest of it was.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Your guess is as good as mine. It's a found object. I've no idea what it represents. The limbs look like they belong to a plastic raptor- but where was the rest of the beastie?