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Love to a pop in to see whats new Never leave empty handed

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elaine wells . 2024-09-09

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Lovely place to visit !! There is quite a bit of things to do such as buying garden items, shopping for clothes & having a lovely lunc/r snack. And don't forget to go the butchery department. They have the most delicious pieces of meat I have ever tasted 🍖 🥓 😍😍😍 I highly recommend it!! 🤩🤩

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Gwen Pierson . 2024-09-06

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Fascinating wealth of foody treats, great gift ideas. I bought shoes and a handbag!

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Christine Geraty . 2024-09-04

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Garden centre with food hall and plants

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terry Kennedy . 2024-09-03

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Love going here, calm atmosphere and friendly service at the cafe from Eve who was constantly busy the whole time. Nice clothing, show selection and kitchen, stationary and food etc…

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Carina Murray . 2024-08-26

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Lovely all round garden centre with a delightful cafe

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simi bugari . 2024-08-25

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Don't expect it to be cheap but there is lots to see and buy including clothes plants sheds tools and of course plants food is good too

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tony thompson . 2024-08-23

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Had a lovely time here nice food staff Very helpful lot's of nice bargains Very nice place to visit

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Allan King . 2024-08-22

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Well stocked garden centre with easy parking. I was considering buying some bedding plants and received lots of knowledgeable advice from a very approachable and helpful staff member, Geoff.

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F M . 2024-08-15

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Went to Blackbrooks to day to have some food . I was unfortunately put off having food because of the blue bottle flys on the uncoved food . You can get ill from this especially if you are elderly unlikely to recamend eating hear to family and friends

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Andrew Babbage . 2024-08-14

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Having eaten at the Seddlescombe Blackbrooks I expected a certain standard but found myself dissappointed in the food offered here. Ordered Cheese and Onion sandwich which should have been mature cheddar and it was sliced smoked cheese, fine if you don't mind smoked cheese! Three tiny pieces of onion on top. The bread was inedible- stale and dry., your shop bought loaf style. The chips were over cooked. £23 and we just walked away. The girl behind the till and serving was miserable to be honest and had no customer engagement or a smile. Made her aware as we were leaving, she didn't even offer a sorry just a 'speak to the manager or something along those lines.' Won't be back, will stick to the other garden centre.

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Tara M . 2024-08-05

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Met up with family & friends for breakfast. Staff unsure about gluten free options. Don’t know difference between allergy or intolerance & stated all cooked together so no good if coeliac 🤯 All breakfasts came out at different times. Poached eggs all set. Gluten free toast arrived cold. When gluten free breakfast arrived wasn’t very warm. Certainly wouldn’t recommend if coeliac & won’t be going there again On a plus side staff very nice , restaurant nice & clean & very nice coffee

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Barbara S . 2024-08-03

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Visited the restaurant last week with my mum and nan after a few years away. Great selection of cakes, and loved the new coffee!! Will be back again soon.

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Daniella Clarke . 2024-07-24

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More like a department store there is so much there but lots of gardening equipment, furniture and plants too

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Vivien Hughes-Jones . 2024-07-13

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Meg up with a friend for breakfast today, it wasn’t too busy, we ordered poached eggs on a muffin and scrambled eggs with two coffees, food was served in good time and was not and tasty, staff were friendly.

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angelafarrance . 2024-07-13

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Freshly prepared food..large portions. One sandwich more than enough for 2 of us. Queue off putting but staff very well organised and processed orders very quickly. We were pleased to be able to take our dog in and other dogs in there were quiet and completely under control

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gardeninggirl . 2024-07-10

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Very nice place to buy your garden needs.The staff are very knowledgeable and very helpful.

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Robert Shepherd . 2024-07-01

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Got lost a few times, found layout confusing but shop well stocked and varied goods available but as is often the case these days nik naks and fancy trinkets have pushed the garden products and plants into second place

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Martyn Don Ounstead . 2024-06-24

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Plenty of choice friendly helpful staff. A pleasure to visit and purchase from.

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Geoff Childs . 2024-06-22

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I love the hanging chairs I bought there. I had them delivered, service was just perfect. The delivery man was absolutely polite , helpful and communicative .

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Edit Orosz . 2024-06-20

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Always manage to get everything I need.

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carole Johnson . 2024-06-19

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The deli platter for about £12 for 1 is amazing..we share it...cheeses,bread,coronation chicken pork pie,chutney,horseradish sauce,ham(it's yummy,they should sell) salad pate The serving staff and the ladies clearing tables are great. Thoroughly recommend.

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Pam Munday-Chanin . 2024-06-18

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A wonderful garden centre. Absolutely everything you could wish for.

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pauline gill . 2024-06-15

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Not had any trouble before. We ordered a light breakfast which was fine. My hot oats was not put through to kitchen, so my husband had almost finished. When it did come it was solid. Very disappointed. We come down a lot . Still will😞

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susan jenner . 2024-06-14

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Love strolling round this garden centre always come out with more than I went for ! Great range off food and delicatessen has a marvelous range of Italian pastas and olives 🫒 😋 everything you need to entertain under one roof ! Oh and I love the fabulous range of colourful plant pots , I could not resist 😀

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paris david . 2024-06-11

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Well stocked and lots of choices, good layout and plants looking fresh and healthy. Only negative is the prices are on the high side when compared to other centers

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Kevin Barton . 2024-06-08

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The Pavers shoe section is fabulous.

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Maggie Whitaker . 2024-06-06

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More than just a garden center, but the selection of roses could be larger.

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Klaus Eckert . 2024-06-04

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Seemed to have everything we went for. A good selection of plants.

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Sally Daffarn . 2024-05-29

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Just spoke to Josh in customer service, really helpful, polite and professional!!

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Apple Aerials . 2024-05-20

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Some nice products, but generally massively over priced

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Mark Sheldon . 2024-05-20

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On this occasion we just went for food! It was good but the food seemed a tad expensive. (That comment needs tempering with the fact that I have recently joined the ranks of senior citizens and it was more expensive than I expected or remembered!)

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Luke Dean . 2024-05-16

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Much more than just a garden centre!

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Marius Averitai . 2024-05-12

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Fantastic garden centre, a huge selection of garden articles, but also clothes and the restaurant.

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Mads Peter Trans . 2024-05-11

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Plenty of parking spaces. Good restaurant area with choice of food and drink. Interesting gift shops and good range of gardening plants and equipment. Outside of Hastings and great place to meet friends and relatives.

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James N . 2024-05-10

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The garden centre has lots to choose from and all of the plants for sale are healthy.. One member of staff stands out above and beyond and that's Richard. Whilst we were waiting to pay he went and collected two cardboard boxes to put our plants in to protect our car and them whilst travelling home. Bravo Richard

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Nige Roberts . 2024-05-10

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Excellent service from the restaurant and garden centre thanks again

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mark taylor . 2024-05-06

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Fabulous selection of plants, flowers, trees, water features, furniture, tools, clothing, shows, oh and the cafe... Excellent. Ample free parking too

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James B . 2024-04-29

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I have mobility issues and have great trouble walking. Went with a friend for a coffee. The shop is designed like IKEA and you have to walk around the whole shop to exit.

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Bongo123uk1 . 2024-04-25

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Went to the plant help desk. Asked about the house plants. Got told very sarcastically that I had walked right past them by one employee while another one stood behind her grinning like a Cheshire cat. When I went back to look for myself the same dynamic duo walked past laughing and asked if I had found what I was looking for before walking off. Worst customer service I have every experienced.

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Jon Tree . 2024-04-11

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A great Garden Centre. Lots of local produce, great restaurant/cafe and everything the garden needs!

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Gordon Stein . 2024-04-08

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Love this place. I visit on a regular basis even when I don't want anything, it's just a nice place to browse

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Graham Bell . 2024-04-03

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A great garden centre with easy access via the a21

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Nigel Caddick . 2024-04-02

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Wasted a journey here because there was no indication on their website that they were closed on Easter Sunday. I was not the only.one as other people turned round. Should at least update the website of opening times are different to normal.

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Anthony Medhurst . 2024-03-31

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Mainly use the cafe enroute. Very pleasant place with hood cakes as well as lunches. Lots of space.

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Anne Smith . 2024-03-28

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Everything you want from a garden centre with good quality plants too. Just visited in March and choice of trees and shrubs was very good too.

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Steve Earl . 2024-03-26

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This is a very nice Garden centre with a lovely tea room / restaurant

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Paul Gordon . 2024-03-19

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Interesting place to look around as there are the usual garden centre products for garden and home, a shoe shop with good prices, a cafe, a butchers with good produce and obviously indoor and outdoor plants which are well looked after. It's very popular.

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Aaron Ingram . 2024-03-19

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Great to have a walk around then have a cuppa and cake from the restaurant. Lots of things to see and buy.

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Alan Roberts . 2024-03-18

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Excellent food and attentive staff

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Gary W . 2024-03-12

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Lovely food, friendly staff, tables cleaned off quickly. Only down side was the wait for food, however it was mother's day and very busy, so not entirely unexpected from a great little cafe that every one wants to be at!

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Diana Mepham . 2024-03-10

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Excellent food! Also great selection of plants and other goods/services.

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Gary Watkins . 2024-03-08

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Well stocked garden center and all sorts of other, sometimes unexpected things, like a butcher and a shoe shop. Good selection of gifts and delicacies in the shop, and an excellent cafe.

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Tillmann Lenz . 2024-03-04

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Nice for browsing lots if good plants. Butchers and bakery products available. Lots of goodies to buy

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Linda Mann . 2024-03-02

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All garden centres seem the same, plenty of everything to do with gardening, then there's the tat, plus Pavers shoes and Klass clothing. Resturant ok though.Nice Spicey carrot soup.

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William Austen Holdstock . 2024-02-26

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Always have a good breakfast first.Lots to see in all the different sections.got some primroses,watering can for indoor plants.

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Dawn Hobden . 2024-02-23

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Great place some things a bit pricey but I like it there

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Graeme Jones . 2024-02-16

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Huge place,lots of shopping choices

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Brian Hayward . 2024-02-02

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Occasionally find items that I repurpose, on recent visit, a plant support rod bought as a curtain pole, £2.99 ish. The cheese scones are large, one is enough for two people. Unfortunately, the scone has beef or lamb suet so not for vegetarians. I know this because I can taste it, remember it when I was forced to eat the stuff during childhood. Unlikely, is they would know the ingredients. Blackbrooks has a fresh meat counter that appeared recently, so assume no vegetarian consideration. Coffee was really nice, though, but won't eat anything from there.

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hoofbags . 2024-01-31

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Great food, plenty of it. And great friendly Staff

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Gavin Oak . 2024-01-30

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Was nice until rude shoe shop staff gave harassing body language and intimidating looks as if we werent supposed too be there as we werent in use of incontinence pads

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Luke Starling . 2024-01-28

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Always friendly, helpful and knowledgeable staff. My favourite garden centre to visit any time of the year

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Geoff Dengate . 2024-01-12

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Lovely centre. Large and spacious and well placed to make browsing easy. Dogs are welcome. Beautiful displays and items are all presented creatively. Lovely brands in clothing and homeware. You can buy all sorts of clothes and accessories, homeware, gifts and trinkets, kids' toys and food & drink. Prices are a little higher in some departments, but the items are high quality. The staff were all helpful and polite. They have a reward card scheme, which is always great for a regular shopper! They have a lovely modern cafe offering freshly made cakes and snacks, hot food and hot & cold drinks, again prices are just that tad bit higher but the food is presented beautifully and all seemed fresh and homemade.

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Kerry Blackford . 2024-01-09

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Great food at OK prices. Huge collection of garden ... stuff.

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Ralph Bearpark . 2023-12-30

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I love this garden centre! Especially during Xmas time.. And as far as my experience of garden centres goes this place is at the top of my list! It is incredibly well stocked for any taste and style of garden design or indoor plants throughout the year. The staff deserve a mention here too. They are consistently friendly and incredibly helpful and knowledgeable. The deli counter and locally produced fruit and veg offering is excellent. Somebody's doing something right in this place that's for sure! Highly recommend. 👍

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Karine Waldron . 2023-12-29

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Lovely food all day good service good selection of gardening products plus shoe shop and clothes all under one roof and butcher and lots more 👍👍

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Terence Wright . 2023-12-27

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Awesome range of gardening supplies, and amazing butchers on-site, great café and a clothing store too. Something for everyone!

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Richard Wade . 2023-12-22

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Cafe had a good selection of food. There is a huge Retail area with numerous outlets, including shoes, clothes etc as well as the usual garden centre goods and plants.

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Jane Burchett . 2023-12-20

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Very christmassy, must have taken ages to prepare

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Shirley Witham . 2023-12-13

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Ok but always feel it could be better. Not sure if it's a layout issue, lack of stock, or the absence of staff to assist.

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Russell Jackson . 2023-12-12

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Check out the Butchers great variety of meat the kids will love some of the Christmas stuff

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Malcolm Burr . 2023-12-10

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Would be better if there was a menswear outlet in there. Women are serviced, but men are not.

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Steve Cooper . 2023-12-08

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Lovely place for food and a cuppa.

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Karl Bottomley . 2023-12-05

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Good choice of garden accessories and gifts. Restaurant is tasty and friendly

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Janet Stephens . 2023-12-03

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The staff were friendly, very helpful and knowable The meat we had from the butchers in the garden centre was delicious. The restaurant was expensive but absolutely wonderful

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Dawny . 2023-11-30

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A very good garden centre, especially at Christmas time. They have a wonderful collection of Christmas goodies and the children will love the singing penguins. My 3 year old granddaughter loved them and did a lovely little dance to their singing. Photos taken and we had a lovely chocolate muffin before leaving.

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Jeannie Donovan . 2023-11-28

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Great Christmas display, lovely fresh butcher and fresh veg stalls.

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Trish Madden . 2023-11-27

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Friendly, helpful and knowledgeable staff. Great range. Nice products.

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Jet Rankin . 2023-11-25

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Went to visit to buy Christmas decks and see the pet department. Pet department closed. Christmas decorations were extremely expensive and very poor quality. I couldn’t buy anything.

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Zi Ling . 2023-11-25

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Beautifully set up and organised centre. Love looking around. Unfortunately not affordable to your everyday person. Cafe over priced...

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Kaz Randhawa . 2023-11-23

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Spacious food was good bit expensive tho. Staff very helpful

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Terry B . 2023-11-22

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Enjoyed lunch and hot chocolate , The store looked very good up to your normal standards .thankyou

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Jen Saunders . 2023-11-21

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An extraordinary and vast garden centre, with not just things for the garden and plants and flowers for purchase, but with many products for the home too, and an amazing range Christmas fayre. I have been to the café numerous times now, and can easily understand why it is so popular. The staff are unfailingly amazing, helpful, courteous and hardworking, and the incredible food on offer is excellent, and at a very reasonable price too. Although the queues for food and coffee can be very, long at times the staff work very hard to keep every customer happy! This café is very very deserving of its evident success.

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Nick . 2023-11-21

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Great store, clean, helpful, friendly staff. Lots to look at. All Christmas stick now in

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Kathy Clark . 2023-11-12

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Quite apart from being an outstanding garden centre, with first class products and produce, the staff team are first rate and always courteous and helpful. My wide and I made one of our quite frequent visits to the Sedlescome branch yesterday morning 11th November. We were so very pleased with the way in which the management recognised the two minute silence of Remembrance. The whole store, staff and customers alike immediately ceased whatever they were doing, and respected that very important reverence without a murmer, cough or even the slightest movement. Absolute respect was shown. You could have heard a pin drop! Very moving indeed. Thank you Blackbrooks. It was very much appreciated. Trevor and Susan Spinks

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Trevor Spinks . 2023-11-12

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Really impressed with staff, friendliness and seemed to enjoy their job! Particularly Peter at the till and Sophie, a delight to be looked after by them. The food arrived quickly and we really enjoyed the rapport with Sophie - a really happy go lucky lady. The food is good quality and the choice of cakes delight the eye. My friend was oggling the date slice as she hasn't seen one in 'years'. I already had sight of the banoffee pie in short crust pastry ! .You're not going to get the ease of parking, good food etc for cheap, but it was a pleasure. Plenty of room and lots to feast the eyes on in the rest of the store for unusual gifts. Nice couple of hours spent here, we came out despite the torrential rain. It was a good choice!

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Janette M . 2023-11-11

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Nice place. but cafe expensive.

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David A . 2023-11-08

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Good parking, busy but not a problem. Lots of stock and good display, but some items seemed expensive.

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Bruce Kadwill . 2023-10-27

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Dog friendly, even in the cafe! It is now ready for Christmas with lovely festive displays, plus great plants all year

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Marg P . 2023-10-26

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Very nice layout very expensive

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Jimmy Stewart . 2023-10-25

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Good choices, including options for gluten free. Sometimes a long queue but the staff are efficient so it moves fairly quickly. Like that there is free water usually with a flavour in it - today it was oranges. Sandwiches come with bit of salad and chips- good amount of filling. Cakes are delicious - large slices. Eating area is airy. Free parking. It’s not the cheapest cafe but the food is good,

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Magnus G . 2023-10-21

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Visited the cafe in lower dicker, can honestly say this was the worse breakfast ever, bacon must of been part cooked in oven & reheated in microwave as rind on bacon not even cooked, eggs snotty, mushrooms black and the whole plate was swimming in grease… disgusting. And it wasn’t cheap… even coffee wasnt good and it’s from a barista machine. Garden centre was in a poor state, needs attention and kitchen staff need food training. Not hard to cook a breakfast !

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Sandra Barnard . 2023-10-21

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Lovely food and lots of lovely things to buy

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Emma Cate Stokes . 2023-10-19

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Yummy, but for what the raw ingredients cost, the pasta special was disappointingly small. In contrast the slice of cake was enormous!

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L P . 2023-10-16

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A superb garden centre to visit. LOTs to see with gifts as well as gardening items, Fantastic restaurant and a large car park. We will definitely return.

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richard slyman . 2023-10-12

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Great place not just for plants good food Hall and a great resturant

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Keith Oliver . 2023-10-11

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Excellent restaurant, lots of gift ideas and healthy looking plants

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Avril Terry . 2023-10-11

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Great garden centre, delicious cake and coffee. And bought a few items for Christmas 😁

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sarah buller . 2023-10-08

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Great choice of items, and food and drink!-

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Sarah Morris . 2023-10-07

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Always helpful and lovely plants

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Lynda Hayler . 2023-10-06

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