We’re popping up at Manchester Jazz Festival’s Garden Stage this May.

Join us for a hands-on, family-friendly workshop where you’ll sow your very own mini wildflower meadow in a pot to take home with you!

Join us for our weekly Wildlife Gardening Club.

With expert guidance from our friends at the South Lancashire Bat Group, we’ll be learning all about our native bats before heading out into the gardens to investigate our local population with bat detectors in hand.

Join us for the SIOP SHOP gardening club!

Our fortnightly transformation of the Siop Shop Courtyard.

Part of the National Trust Sky Gardening Challenge.

A drop in practical workshop for small space gardeners looking to encourage wildlife to their small spaces.

Passionate about nature? Curious about careers in horticulture, conservation, or the environment? Looking for more information on how to get started?

Join us at RHS Bridgewater for an exciting, free event designed to inspire, inform, and connect you with the world of green careers!

Join us for our weekly Wildlife Gardening Club.

Learn how to make your own mini wildlife pond with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust.

Coffee, Doughnuts & Gardening!

Join us to lend a helping hand in installing and planting our four new custom built planters in the Siop Shop Courtyard.

Join us for a fun, hands-on workshop celebrating the blossom season in miniature form.

Join us on Saturday 12th of April.

Lend a helping hand in installing and planting some brand-new planters on Mirabel Street.

Join us for our weekly Wildlife Gardening Club.

Learn how to make your own bee hotel to help out our native cavity nesting bees with the Buzz Club.

Creating an indoor oasis.

Sowing a jungle of future plants by propagation and understanding growing conditions and requirements.

Join us for our weekly Wildlife Gardening Club.

"Swifts, Swallows and Martins, why they are in trouble and how to help them" a talk with Bolton and Bury Swifts.

Learn how to create a fern garden.

Sowing spores & other methods of propagation and growing ferns - what to grow and where to grow them.

Join us for our weekly Wildlife Gardening Club.

Phase 2 of our specialist moth garden continues apace, an urban Lepidoptera paradise in the making. 

Learn the basics of bog gardening.

Sow aquatics from seed and understand the growing conditions of different types of aquatic plants.

The return of our weekly Wildlife Gardening Club.

Join us to continue the creation of our specialist moth garden and explore the vital role these beautiful night-time navigators play in our ecosystems.

Creating a medicinal herb garden.

Sowing herbs and medicinal plants from seed and understanding growing conditions and planting methods.

Join this live online workshop to learn about our top 10 seeds for creating pollinator-friendly small spaces using pots and planters.

Whether you're new to growing or more experienced, this session will provide step-by-step guidance on selecting seeds, preparing spaces, sowing and maintaining pollinator-friendly plants throughout the growing season. 

The Farmer’s Market at Sadler’s Yard curated by Where The Light Gets In, Manchester Urban Diggers and Altogether Otherwise.

We’ll be in attendance selling a wide variety of edibles and wildflower plants, all grown from seed by the gardening team in the NOMA gardens.

An introduction to creating an alpine garden.

Sowing alpines from seed (& other methods of propagation).

The PLANT gardeners introduce methods to create a cut flower garden.

Sowing a cut flower garden from seed.

The PLANT gardeners talk you through creating a wildflower garden.

Learn the sowing methods for wildflowers and watch them grow.

Learn how to create a vegetable garden on your lunch break.

PLANT gardeners talk you through sowing methods for planting an edible garden.