Address: Holme Nurseries Ltd, West Holme, Wareham BH20 6AQ, United Kingdom
Phone: +441929554716
Rating: 4.6
based on 159 reviews.
Gardens and Grounds
Pros:
"The gardens attached are beautiful with stunning borders and wildlife areas."
"Beautifully maintained, well thought out with interesting twists and turns to different style garden areas."
"The setting around the pond is delightful - what a lovely place to have coffee or a bite to eat."
"A jewel in the Purbecks, worth a visit for the cafe and the gardens."
"The various garden areas are really nice too - I particularly like the lavender avenue & flower & cuttings garden."
"Gardens absolutely beautiful. Lovely lunch at the cafe."
"Lovely scenic garden centre. Good selection of plants and a great cafe and shop."
"Divine gardens, lovely plants for sale and sit by the pond and watch the huge carp while you divulge yourself with coffee and a slice of delicious cake."
Cons:
"Unfortunately the ground was quite wet when we visited, so not so easy for folk walking."
"Used to enjoy having a stroll round the lovely gardens here when visiting the garden centre. Disappointed when we came today only to find they’re now charging £5 to walk round the gardens."
"Very expensive... the plants are poor quality and badly cared for."
"Nice garden centre but badly maintained, loose paving slabs. With all the old people that visit the centre it's an accident waiting to happen."
"It looked really good on Google, but was a little disappointed, plants looked as if they needed some attention."
"Today the service in the restaurant was very poor kept waiting for 45 minutes."
"There's an awful lot going on, none of which is any good. Staff uninterested, plant selection ok but overpriced."
"A fee is now charged to view the ornamental gardens."
Cafe and Food Offerings
Pros:
"The garden centre restaurant was well priced with good choices."
"Lovely cafe with extensive seating both indoors and around an extremely pretty pond."
"The cafe is really good too, with plenty of outside seating surrounding a large fish pond and gardens."
"Fabulous Garden Centre with a good range of well cared for plants, and the cafe is really good too."
"The cafe prices are very reasonable and portions very generous with quick service."
"The Orchard restaurant. Really nice, polite and friendly staff in all the sections of the centre. Extremely helpful."
"Good cafe in garden centre with good coffee at reasonable prices."
"Fantastic garden centre with good farm shop. Great cafe in garden centre with good coffee at reasonable prices."
Cons:
"Terrible food and service. Choice of food on the menu was very limited and basic."
"Nice food but the salad they gave on the side was awful! Expected just a usual side salad but gave some weird beans salad with horrible celery which put me off."
"Cafe disappointing. Ordered quiche (regular) which was no more than set cheese custard which lacked seasoning and filling."
"Very very disappointed with our visit to the restaurant we tried talking to two members of staff about the wife's gluten free diet."
"Went for breakfast after a wedding at the garden centre. there was an 11.00am cut off, although the party had not been told. They refused to serve us breakfast."
"Been to this place before was really nice and food great, but went last Saturday ordered a bacon sandwich... it was disgusting fatty greasy undercooked and very expensive."
"So much hassle trying to purchase in the coffee shop, no clear instructions to help just ropes and little signs, staff just stand and watch without offering any help."
"We had a great time 😊 got a voucher from the resort Dorset to to garden for £5 two for one had a lovely lunch menu good quality and dog friendly garden s were amazing 7achers well worth a visit especially with the sunshine ☀️ lots of plants good prices farm shop and family run deffently good again."
Staff and Service
Pros:
"Very friendly and informative manner on the phone and on site and all staff were very helpful."
"Staff very helpful in selecting rose bush for family celebration at wkend."
"Wonderful place in beautiful surroundings, although to see the gardens there is a charge,which seeing it was free last year, its bit of a bummer to us locals. Food and restaurant excellent, with a lovely pond to sit around in good weather."
"Staff are excellent, friendly and very helpful. Pleased to see that they have risen to the CV-19 crisis by offering a delivery service locally."
"I visit the garden centre often the staff are really very helpful nothing is too much bother."
"Wonderful display of healthy plants, a delightful assistant called Eleanor wrapped my plants beautifully because I told her they were birthday gifts, nothing was too much trouble."
"Great cafe and covid measures in place which were well implemented and explained by the staff."
"Very helpful staff who explained how the garden centre and the cafe were working. Farm shop well stocked,with fresh looking fruit and vegetables."
Cons:
"Staff just stand and watch without offering any help. Very poor selection of cake available, one of which was a piece cut into four of the smallest pieces I have ever seen."
"Very very disappointed with our visit to the restaurant we tried talking to two members of staff about the wife's gluten free diet, we were offered a scone we asked about a sandwich and told you had rolls not bread."
"There's an awful lot going on, none of which is any good. Staff uninterested, plant selection ok but overpriced. Shop is full of tacky rubbish."
"Today the service in the restaurant was very poor kept waiting for 45 minutes. Had to ask staff if there was a problem not particular interested in our request."
"Nice place, rude staff, visited 21/8/22 having coffee and cakes in cafe, cafe was quiet staff member came with tray and insisted on clearing table before we had finished eating, will not be back."
"Very expensive... the plants are poor quality and badly cared for. The staff are patronising, the car park is designed to get your doors bashed."
"I really like Holme gardens and visit often buying most of my garden plants there. Staff are excellent, friendly and very helpful. But very disappointed to see they are charging more than Tesco for this service as well as a £30 minimum spend."
"Went for breakfast after a wedding at the garden centre. there was an 11.00am cut off, although the party had not been told. They refused to serve us breakfast and the manageress claimed to have sold out of food. No apology. They told us to go to a cafe in wool. It was closed. They lost the custom of 6 people."