White Elm Garden Centre Reviews Summary

Garden Centre

Pros:

• "The Garden Centre has something for all. Old and young. Wide variety of all sorts other than the beautiful plants etc."
• "The garden centre is well stocked and there's a decent café attached."
• "A great garden centre, lots of variety of plants and cute garden ornaments."
• "Garden Centre has a fabulous selection of plants and gardening equipment plus a mini shopping mall."
• "The center includes a huge variety of beautiful plants and trees with some lovely pots."
• "They have a lovely and big garden centre selling all sorts of plants, from flowers to smaller trees to pots and outdoor decor."
• "The garden centre is beautifully maintained and laid out, the cafe serves lovely food and the farm and play barn is just the best!"

Cons:

• "Not as good as my first visit, changed hands?"
• "Avoid the restaurant since the new menu. Having visited on numerous previous occasions and enjoyed the food I was disappointed to find hardly any choice left at 1.20 on a Sunday."
• "For me though I'd like to see a little more range for houseplants but that is a personal preference."
• "Unfortunately, this will be our last visit for the foreseeable future."
• "I love this garden centre and it always has a massive selection of everything garden goods and even has home related products. I have taken a star off as I don’t feel the prices are value for money."
• "Bit disappointed when buying the plants tho as the 3 staff members just kept chatting to each other behind the counter."
• "While the food is fine in the tearoom, the whole place looks very tired."

Petting Farm & Animals

Pros:

• "Petting farm was brilliant for the little ones and the not so little."
• "Kids loved feeding the animals, enjoyed the soft play and outdoor play cars."
• "Nice little petting zoo, all well laid out, wash stations, good variety of animals."
• "Love this farm! Just the right amount of animals."
• "Only visited the farm animals area with my toddler. Such a beautiful day with lots of animals for him to see and get close to."
• "The petting farm is well set out and the animals all have good sized pens."
• "Animals well looked after and cared for with a food bucket for 1.50 the animals loved the interaction."

Cons:

• "There was a few animals brought a bucket of food then on most of the fencing round animals it said do not feed we just gave it all to goats and sheep."
• "Farm was good for 5 and unders, however not as much hands on experience as I imagine there would have been."
• "I noticed a lot of the water bottles for smaller animals like the rabbits, the water was really green."
• "Unfortunately the rare breeds has closed at the moment, but a soft play area and petting farm are in development at the moment."
• "Only 4 star’s because a part was shut off as they had a wasps nest."
• "However it is a big busy place with lots of families so often noisy."
• "The children's jam sandwiches in the lunch boxes was stale bread."

Cafe & Food

Pros:

• "The cafe is wonderful and child friendly with high chairs and lots of table."
• "The tea room is spotlessly clean and the staff all friendly and welcoming."
• "Fabulous tea rooms, with indoor and outdoor seating."
• "Always good stock in the garden centre and the cafe is pleasant."
• "Fantastic Cafe that does a selection of about twelve home made cakes, and really nice hot food too."
• "The Tea Room provides fantastic food and drinks."
• "The cafe just outside the farm serves delicious food and has friendly staff."