Blackdown Garden Centre Reviews Summary

Category: Garden center

Address: W Buckland Rd, Wellington, TA21 9HY, United Kingdom

Phone: +441823661699

Rating: 4.3
based on 144 reviews.

Garden Centre

Pros:

  • "An excellent garden centre with healthy, long lasting plants, a good range of equipment, tools and feeds."
  • "Great garden centre, everything I need for my pond and fish, some lovely shops inside."
  • "A new car park with ample spaces, fabulous plants and gifts and an amazing food hall."
  • "The variety of goods were varied and reasonable priced. We had a meal which was quickly delivered, tasted good and was value for money."
  • "Excellent garden centre, really lovely restaurant with very good and tasty food."
  • "Great Garden centre, the staff are lovely and friendly, they sell a great range of products at reasonable prices."
  • "What an amazing garden centre! I spent two hours looking around there today and could've spent much longer."

Cons:

  • "The garden centre looks wonderful but I am very disappointed with the cafe staff!"
  • "No vegetarian or vegan salads. No vegan options at all. No vegetarian main meals."
  • "Not impressed with the attitude of the restaurant staff, we took two of our grandchildren here for a late lunch and they could see we were choosing from the menu, and went to order food to be told the kitchen had shut 2.30pm."
  • "The new cafe seems packed in with very little room between tables for a wheelchair."
  • "Not a pleasant experience at all. The largest selection of pots which was great but I asked for assistance and had eyes rolled at me losing them a sale."
  • "No non-dairy options in Cafe/Restaurant, does not cater for allergies or vegans."
  • "Unfortunately no toilet except in the carpark."

Staff and Service

Pros:

  • "Excellent service from all staff."
  • "The staff are kind and polite and ready to help."
  • "Nice to see lots of staff and training taking place too."
  • "Staff so friendly, went in for breakfast, so not disappointed!!"
  • "Staff are helpful, knowledgeable and patient."
  • "The staff were great and the speed of service was incredible."
  • "Staff are very helpful, courteous and happy to engage with the customer."

Cons:

  • "Cafe all new glitz and useless service. Waited in queue for 35minutes to buy two coffees."
  • "Don't bother with this overpriced place. Don't even try to get any food from the rude staff in the restaurant after 2 pm."
  • "The staff i told at the till wasn't interested."
  • "The woman I did eventually find was ignorant and miserable."
  • "None of the staff seem to be helpful or care at all."
  • "Attitude of staff was appalling: we were told to bring our own non-dairy milk!"
  • "Such uncomthy chairs, so hard and the service takes 47 minuites to arrive."

Facilities and Layout

Pros:

  • "It is now owned by Blue Diamond. The restaurant is now opened and called the greenhouse kitchen."
  • "A massive redevelopment has recently taken place at this garden centre with a greatly expanded range of items, including homeware, clothing and food."
  • "Parking was excellent, with only a small walk to the entrance from the disabled bay."
  • "Good sized carpark with lots of disabled spaces."
  • "Beautiful place where you find everything related to gardening, bbq, pets, clothing, household items, restaurant with terrace."
  • "Very large good selection of garden pots most I've ever seen."
  • "Brilliant revamped garden centre recently taken over by Bluediamond."

Cons:

  • "Cafe looks lovely, until it rains and you discover that the roof leaks all over the place."
  • "The Christmas area is mostly full of rubbish so won't be buying anything from that department!"
  • "The car park signage is lacking, sign stating car park but accompanied with a black arrow!"
  • "Other signs urgently required are no entry near the exit (I encountered a vehicle entering this way) disabled parking, one way clearly none of which are rocket science yet lacking."
  • "The only reason we are giving a 4 star rather than a 5 star review was due to quite a few leaks in the roof, leaving wet patches on the floor which could be a issue for older people."
  • "Interesting place, lots to see. Thought there was a shortage of information signs."
  • "The toilets are in the car park."

Food and Restaurant

Pros:

  • "The restaurant does good food."
  • "Lovely teashop with a huge selection of drinks, snacks and meals."
  • "Lakeside restaurant was it's usual excellent self, great food and service."
  • "Almond & cherry cream tea was lush!!! Service was great- Especially the young, blonde haired waitress her service was excellent and personal."
  • "Food was excellent."
  • "The range of food is wide and delicious."
  • "Our meals were really tasty and lovely and hot. My Mum who is 90 said the fish she had was one of the best she has had."

Cons:

  • "The hashbrowns are a very dark brown colour, as if the oil hasn’t been changed for several days."
  • "Coffee walnut cake very sickly. Icing didn't taste like butter cream - more like fake butter cream."
  • "Then we were disappointed with the service and food."
  • "Restaurant prices high."
  • "Everything seems fairly overpriced."
  • "Such uncomthy chairs, so hard and the service takes 47 minuites to arrive."
  • "Restaurant only serves hot food between 0900 & 1430."

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