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garden centre
noun
a place where gardening tools and equipment, plants, seeds, etc, are sold
Example Sentences
When Ben Stokes' side were playing their Tests in Pakistan in October, the left-arm spinner was listening to Test Match Special while working a shift at the family garden centre.
The garden centre - Hartley's Nurseries to give it its proper name - is 10 miles or so outside of Liverpool and is a sixth-generation family business.
"If you see a black person in the garden centre it's usually me. I'm very interested in how Mr Stay Up Late become Mr Staying In man. Crisps, gin and tonic, the telly, and bed at 10 o'clock."
Robin Mercer, from Hillmount Garden Centre in County Down, said the deal was "long overdue" as the current arrangements had driven up costs.
"There wasn't a garden centre, they weren't invented then. We used to sell our bunches of dahlias and people said 'why can't you sell us anything else?' And that's how it all started," said Ms Aylett.
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