Bickerdikes Garden Centre Reviews Summary

Garden Centre

Pros:

• "This is a good all round garden centre offering everything from plants, shrubs, trees to pots and rocks for the rockery."
• "Good selection of plants stunningly displayed."
• "This garden centre does exactly what you would want it to. Decent selection of plants, pots and gardening equipment."
• "Excellent garden centre has lots of plants for different areas of your garden with a shop selling lovely gifts clothes, candles, and more."
• "Superbly healthy plants at good prices."
• "Always has great quality plants as well as a good variety."
• "Very well stocked with a wide variety of plants indoors and out, shrubs, trees & lots of bedding plants."

Cons:

• "The comfortable, cosy atmosphere has gone."
• "The only drawback is that at times it is very popular so you may have to stand in line to be seated."
• "The layout is tired and it's on different levels too which isn't the best for disabled people or the elderly."
• "Very overpriced on most products and the range of products is not that great."
• "Could benefit from a larger selection of plants."
• "Nice place, hardly any peat-free compost. Twine, string and other plastic free products are all converted in plastic."
• "Not anywhere near enough plants and for a garden centre quite disappointing."

Cafe and Restaurant

Pros:

• "All the food served, from a Belgian bun to a full English, is top class."
• "The cafe served a great coffee and breakfast."
• "The restaurant is equally as good. Polite staff excellent service and the most amazing food, all at a reasonable price."
• "Lovely restaurant very good food well worth a visit."
• "The restaurant is light and airy."
• "Staff are friendly and helpful and as everything is freshly made can amend to your taste."
• "The cafe has a good selection of quality home made food in lovely surroundings served by helpful, friendly staff."

Cons:

• "Came here with my sisters for breakfast. I ordered a scone but was very disappointed that it was stale and dry so I left half of it."
• "Always was good in the cafe but recently feel the food has gone downhill, hot drinks served lukewarm."
• "So no cream tea, anywhere sells scones so don't understand why they aren't bought elsewhere."
• "Nice garden centre but the cafe is a nause to get in. You have to wait in a queue and some posh hoorah Henry types barge through."
• "Service can be slow at times."
• "Service can slow a bit in the busy periods, lunch etc."
• "Staff rude. Buggies not allow in restaurant."

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "Staff are lovely."
• "The staff are lovely and we had lunch and that also was super."
• "The young staff are so courteous and helpful."
• "Staff was very happy to help."
• "Professional staff."
• "Staff where friendly and took the allergy seriously."
• "The staff are very friendly and knowledgeable."