Reg Taylor's Garden Centre Reviews Summary

Garden Centre

Pros:

• "Great selection of plants, some more unusual varieties as well as more established plants."
• "Always enjoy a visit to Reg Taylor's. They have a lovely range of plants and accessories and looking fresh and inviting."
• "Absolutely the best and poshest Garden Centre I’ve ever been to, amazing selection of seeds, plants, trees, pots and everything in between."
• "A great garden centre with plants and trees I've not seen before, all look really well kept."
• "Best kept garden centre with the most variety ever seen."
• "The garden centre has good quality plants at reasonable prices."
• "Wonderful garden centre. Such a good selection of quality plants and garden equipment."

Cons:

• "Really nice garden centre, but possibly the most expensive garden centre I've been to in the past few years."
• "The plants looked beautiful & very well maintained but I was told they were expensive."
• "Food has always been expensive here and we each usually have a main course and dessert and with a basic drink which comes to £40.00."
• "Very large choice of good quality plants, but expensive."
• "Very, very overpriced for plants compared to other garden centres."
• "More expensive than most other garden centres so rarely buy anything."
• "The prices are on the high side in 80% of products."

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "Well stocked with friendly staff, the attached Swan Sanctuary which costs £3 for adults, £2.50 for OAPS and free for children is excellent."
• "The staff were so friendly and knowledgeable too."
• "I found the staff to be very helpful, polite and quick."
• "Staff are very helpful and courteous."
• "Family owned and run, great knowledgeable service with a smile."
• "Most of the staff were lovely."
• "The staff here are incredibly friendly, especially in providing a wheelchair for my grandmother and accommodating her needs."

Cons:

• "Not very welcoming from older member of staff, spoke to my elderly mum like she was a two year old."
• "Poor service in the tea room. Was asked to take a seat but nobody came to take our order despite other people who came in after being served."
• "Getting a seat can be ridiculous."
• "Most of the staff were lovely bar one who was actually quite rude to my surprise."
• "The gentleman who was serving (possibly a Taylor family member) was just not interested & totally dismissed my complaint & suggestion."
• "Did not see much staff around to help but they were busy I suppose."
• "Went to buy 1 bottle of water from cafe at the take away counter, waited for over 5 minutes nobody served me."

Swan Sanctuary

Pros:

• "The Swan sanctuary is lovely for a relaxing walk, sit watching all the wildfowl, well worth a visit."
• "They do have a sanctuary of swans to walk around, think it's around £3 per adult. Looks a nice little walk."
• "Visited the Swan sanctuary which is a great place to see swans, geese, ducks and peacock."
• "Well worth a wander round the Swan sanctuary too which is part of the centre and access is for a small fee."
• "The swan/wildfowl sanctuary is wonderful to visit."
• "The swan sanctuary is a lovely tranquil area to visit too."
• "The Swan bit was incredible to walk round and feed the ducks and they follow you and so incredible."

Cons:

• "The attached Swan reserve was full of water fowl but was in need of some loving care & attention."
• "The swan sanctuary well all I can say is it needs renaming to bird sanctuary as we only spotted two swans."
• "It appeared to be the home of a very large number of geese but very few swans. Perhaps it should be renamed the goose sanctuary."
• "You have to pay to enter & get tickets from the checkout desk near the entrance to the garden centre. Probably not worth it."

Food and Cafe

Pros:

• "Clean cafe/restaurant. Good variety of food and beverages."
• "The food, and especially the cakes, are excellent."
• "Food and service was exceptional."
• "Very good traditional English Sunday Lunch, if that's what you like and I do!"
• "Lovely garden centre fabulous selection of pots garden ornaments and plants impressive restaurant well worth a pit stop."
• "Cafè offers restaurant quality food..lovely setting."
• "Tea room offers delicious food and very friendly service."