South Downs Nurseries Reviews Summary

Plant Selection

Pros:

• "Best Garden center I've ever been to! Plenty of stock."
• "An Alladins cave of treasures from every beautiful plant available to pottery and BBQ grills and gifts."
• "A fantastic restaurant and lots of variety of plants and garden goods to choose from."
• "The quality of the plants is amazing."
• "Great variety of plants, pots, garden ornaments and other inspiring things for the garden."
• "It has a very wide range of plants clearly set out."
• "Plants always in tip-top condition and still thriving after purchase."

Cons:

• "Disappointed that they stock parrots feather invasive pond weed."
• "What ever happened to a garden centre? South downs has gone the way off a lot of garden centres where plants take a back step."
• "Visited with the kids the week before Christmas to try and get a little Christmas spirit but we either left it too late or like many others they didn't go big on Christmas this year as displays were a bit empty and sparse."

Restaurant/Cafe

Pros:

• "The restaurant here is excellent. Huge scones, cooked breakfasts until 3pm, lovely buns and cakes and decent coffee."
• "The cafe is really lovely, well priced, with good coffee and child friendly."
• "The restaurant was clean, efficient, friendly & reasonably priced."
• "The restaurant is very clean and tidy. Food is very good and very tasty."
• "Cafe is exceptional and food is always lovely no matter what you choose."
• "The food was delicious & very reasonably priced."
• "The restaurant food is amazing. Lovely selection of cakes. Would recommend the cooked breakfast."

Cons:

• "After a long wait our food finally came out but again sadly this was cold."
• "the tearoom has considerably gone downhill im afraid."
• "The cooked food was mediocre and over priced."
• "However they do need to check what their online stocks say are in stock only to find out when asking member of staff where to find item told not in stock."
• "Shame cafe allows dogs."
• "Lovely garden centre, but very disappointed with the restaurant 🍴 very expensive and not a great choice of the day."
• "The restaurant let's you down. For the second time running food that we tried to order food was unavailable."

Pricing

Pros:

• "The prices are very competitive, often lower than other garden centres."
• "Prices are reasonable. Some items are much cheaper here than elsewhere."
• "well priced plants."
• "The selection available was good and reasonably priced."
• "good selection plants reasonably priced."
• "Lovely nursery and reasonable prices."
• "Great products at affordable prices."

Cons:

• "Not a bad garden centre (although £3.79 for a roll of Christmas paper is a little steep)."
• "The absolute worst bit is the packaged food shop. Wowsers. The prices were through the roof."
• "The fudge available to purchase in the grocery store is basically just blocks of icing sugar and truly not worth the premium price tag."
• "A great garden centre a little on the pricey side but to be expected due to location and demographics."
• "Although, it does seem very pricey, I am very much guilty of seeing something I like and buying from elsewhere based on price."
• "Very lovely garden centre but make sure you have deep wallets because it is certainly highly priced."
• "Lovely garden centre, but very disappointed with the restaurant 🍴 very expensive and not a great choice of the day."

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "All the staff I came into contact with were extremely helpful."
• "Staff are very helpful and polite."
• "Staff friendly and very helpful."
• "The staff are very courteous & helpful."
• "Staff are always very friendly and helpful."
• "They have knowledgeable friendly staff, my go to garden centre every time."
• "The staff are very friendly and facilities are clean."

Cons:

• "Although large and the shop being good, when comparing the garden centre to Newhaven, I thought that it wasn't labelled or laid out as well. Also, there were no staff available to speak with."
• "Sometimes difficult to find any staff of advice needed."
• "The woman who served us was bossy and unhelpful."
• "Unfortunately, I can't say the same for Sally in the restaurant. Maybe it was just a bad day but my wife was quite disappointed in the way she spoke to her."
• "Lovely garden centre, however the café, which used to be very good, was disappointing this time, staff were surly and unhelpful, and the standard of food, was well below the standard I have come to expect from there."