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Advantages: Plenty of choice with beautiful gardens to wander through
Disadvantages: Little seating and somewhat more expensive than your average garden centre

My very first visit to Bridgemere Garden World was during late summer, 2001. I’d recently moved to South Cheshire and having seen the ads in the local newspaper decided that I wanted to visit what sounded like one humungous garden centre! Even so, I can honestly say that I hadn’t anticipated anything quite as large as Bridgemere. Covering more than 6 acres, this is a gardener’s dream come true! Thousands upon thousands of plants are for sale and, ...
...we decided to pop into Bridgemere on the way home to pick one up. It wouldn’t be entirely honest of me to say that they didn’t have one, but those they had were far too large for a pot on our patio. They were easily a meter in both height and width and at £27.50, out of our price range. We wanted one half the size that we could enjoy watching grow from year to year. Unfortunately, it was the big ‘un or nothing. The same applied to most other rhododendrons. ...

CherryBlossom 04.05.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Bridgemere Garden World

Down to earth experience at Gordon Riggs

Advantages: range of plants, pleasant atmosphere, price, super tea shop attached to centre
Disadvantages: getting harrassed by pensioners, you might spend a fortune

Gordon Riggs garden centre- a legend in its own lifetime. When I lived at home with my parents in Bury, we used to travel all the way to Walsden, near Littleborough, to buy plants and seedlings. IN the olden days, there were't many of these pioneering garden centres about and people travelled for miles to get to them. Now Gordon Rigg has a few of these centres in the Lancashire region, and they are doing well. People travel to them from miles around- ...
...pity as I love confiers...... GOrdon Riggs sell conifers from the tiny to the box variety at £80+..specialised! Outside is also the shrub section, and we saw some lovely shrubs. On the label it says the conditions for keeping the plants- and many of them require full sun..a bit ambitious in the British climate, but never mind- people buy them and if they die..the peopl come back to Gordon Riggs and get some more- never ending supply of customers! ...

ginger59 07.06.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Gordon Riggs Garden Centre, West Yorkshire

Gardeners Delight

Advantages: Wide range of good quality goods
Disadvantages: Not the cheapest

...eat when you're there. Peter Barratts Garden Centre in Newcastle is no exception. WHERE IS IT ? It's located to the north of the city next to Gosforth Park / Newcastle Racecourse. It's only a 5 minute drive from the A1 if you take the Killingworth / Wideopen junction, or similarly 5 minutes from the Killingworth turn off of the A19. One of the other main route's running out of Newcastle city centre, the A189, literally passes by too, so it's very ...
...PLANTS N' STUFF Naturally Peter Barratt's sells plants and just about every other garden accessory you can imagine, and what a selection it is. Indoor plants are sold all year round and range from your bog standard houseplants and flowering baskets, through cacti, to larger specimen plants, such as a yucca tree, which was larger than me and had a price tag to match. An absolutely bewildering selection of bedding plants are currently available, ...

scampi1 30.05.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Peter Barratts Garden Centre

A Garden Centre and lots more

Advantages: Largest garden centre in the area. Good range of products. Plenty to occupy people who wish to spend some time here. Meals or snacks available
Disadvantages: With the new epansion there is a lot of walking between departments now. Lots mor people going now and I have found car parking very busy even though there are more spaces

Heighley Gate have just opened a massive Phase 1 of their extension to the existing site. There are a lot more products and because they have more buildings available for indoor housing it means there are more departments. The Garden Centre is situated on the A697 Wooler to Coldstream road North of Morpeth and opening hours are :- 9a.m. - 5.30 p.m. Mon - Fri. in Summer closing at 5p.m. in Winter. Saturday and Bank Holidays - 9a.m. - 5p.m. Sundays. ...
...accessible from a large car park and houses a gift shop where all sorts of items can be bought even down to pans and china. Ther are a large variety of house plants and all of the garden fertilisers, chemicals etc as well as pots and tubs. All sorts of garden tools are available and a very good selection of seeds and bulbs . I was very impressed by the vast selection of fresh vegetables, fruit and cut flowers and jams, chutneys, biscuits and meringue ...

Procumbens 29.04.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Heighley Gate Garden Centre, Northumberland

One of the most extensive garden Centres in the UK

Advantages: Superb range of products, friendly staff
Disadvantages: Not cheap!

...A540 Road to Hoylake is Gordale Garden Centre. Gordale opened in 1948, one of the first Garden centres in the UK. I have been a fairly regular customer over the last 20 years and have watched the developments with interest. The Garden cenre is still owned by the family that started it - Peter Nicholson and wife Jill now run it having taken over from Peter's parents who started it all. A clue to their management style is that it is rare to be at ...
...them clearing the tables in the Cafe, or helping in some other menial task. Every year since we started going there has been some kind of major development going on, and its clear that a lot of the profits are ploughed back into the business. The staff are always helpful and all products of high quality - any faulty products quickly replaced. The downside is that nothing is cheap - if you want an everyday item it will be cheaper somewhere else, ...

shricthism 17.12.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Gordale Garden Centre