"A huge variety of lovely plants and everything you need for your garden."
"Great nursery for plants."
"Excellent plant selection."
"Prices are reasonable and there is a wide range of varieties to choose from."
"Beautiful, healthy plants, shrubs and trees in abundance."
"Fantastic range of plants, always eye-catching displays that emphasize the best of the season."
"Their outdoor selection of plants and plant pots is amazing and I find the quality better than most others in the local area."
Cons:
"Prices are a little high on a lot of things so you have to search thoroughly to try and find a reasonably priced decoration."
"With the huge number of lines, some of the plants aren't in top condition so it pays to choose carefully."
"Most of the plants are bit expensive compared to other garden centers around."
Christmas Displays
Pros:
"They have most of their Christmas items out on the shelves and working on Santas Grotto."
"So lovely to wander around looking at all the Christmas decorations etc."
"The Christmas display is always incredible, well worth a visit - singing reindeer!!"
"Displays at Christmas are amazing!"
"It's current Christmas display is truly magical and fills me with a warm fuzzy feeling each time I swing by."
"Decorations are always amazing and feels so magical so would definitely recommend for children too!"
"They have a great selection of Christmas decorations, and a beautiful Christmas village set up for inspiration to make you own."
Cons:
"Christmas display this year is not as good as previous."
Café and Food
Pros:
"Had a lovely lunch with some of my nearest and dearest. 4 adults, 2 toddlers with lunch, drinks and 3 desserts less than £55."
"The on site café is very good too, with nice big platefuls."
"Couldn’t fault it, very tasty, poached eggs cooked to perfection and the granary bread was delicious."
"Coffee shop also nice, with lovely breakfast."
"The restaurant is really great too highly recommend."
"Nice size potato, butter, cheese, fresh salad, side bowl of mushrooms and chopped bacon, there was also colslaw all presented on an attractive platter."
"The cafe serves delicious food."
Cons:
"Despite asking 2 different people if we could order nobody ever bothered coming back to the table."
"Never tried the coffee shop as it's always far too busy."
"Waitress was not happy told us that we shouldn't be sitting where we were!"
"No still no acknowledgement after over 7 minutes waiting, we decided to leave and not bother."
"The wait times in the café are ridiculous. 20 minutes for coffee and mince pies!"
"The food and drinks then took a further 30mins to arrive. Service was terrible, and food was terribly dry."
"Recently had a cooked breakfast which sadly was cold, told a member of staff who then just looked at it!"
Staff and Service
Pros:
"Clean and tidy, well thought through displays and attentive staff."
"Fantastic garden centre, knowledgeable staff and incredibly helpful."
"The staff are very friendly, knowledgeable and helpful."
"A massive selection of plants and extremely friendly staff."
"Their staff are very helpful so would recommend a visit."
"The staff are always helpful & polite."
"The staff were all friendly and couldn't be more helpful, and actually looked happy in their work."
Cons:
"Disgusting that you’re asking children to wear masks."
"Very busy and needed staff on car parking and directing, but very good organisation."
"Having come to have hopefully a drink and something to eat we were sorely disappointed you asked to wait to be seated and several staff made eye contact but did not even speak to tell us that someone would be with us soon."
"We sat for 20 minutes and despite 10 other customers the staff about 8 of them just stood talking to each other."
"Stood at entrance for 5 minutes, waiting. 3 members of staff looked at us but no-one acknowledged us or came to get us seated."
"However when asked for an almond milk shake the waitress seemed to struggle to know that this was on the menu so ended up with coffee."
"Disappointed with Aspen Cafe for the first time."
Pricing and Value
Pros:
"Prices are reasonable and there is a wide range of varieties to choose from."
"Their loyalty bonus card is fabulous with offers and money back vouchers popping through the letter box on a regular basis😁"
"Costs of various things about the same as other popular centres."
"There are bargains to be found and we have come home feeling all Christmassy."
"Only marking down a star as it can be a little pricey, but it's a classic case of 'you get what you pay for'... quality!"
Cons:
"It isn't cheap and B&Q probably cheaper, but you get service to your car if you need it."
"Nice place but very expensive."
"Have been here a few times before and enjoyed it but since it changed hands it has become extremely expensive so I will not be returning."
"Incredibly pricey. And a lot of staple Christmas items were incredibly over priced."
"Prices can be on the higher side we have found."
"Some items are quite pricey and everything is more expensive than last year."
Accessibility and Layout
Pros:
"A local garden centre with signs off of the main road, so easy to find."
"You can get a wheelchair around most of it."
"The Christmas Village is visible for all ages young and old. Short and tall."
"Carpark was busy but it didn't feel crowded inside."
"Plenty of parking. Some parking available in the shade."
Cons:
"Visited today lovely garden centre until I tried to navigate a wheelchair inside staff had left there loading trollies in the aisle."
"The floor going into the restaurant area was uneven just in front of the entrance to the slope to the restaurant."
"The wait time was quite long our time slot was 4:30 but didn't get to see santa until 5:15 its a long wait for the younger ones."