Clay's Garden Centre in Sunderland

This time of year full of Christmas stuff

Quality plants shrubs always the restaurant sells.nice food to plus lots of other garden stuff spot on goods

Has a good selection of plants and their cafe is very good value for money

Well worth a visit. The coffee shop is excellent and very reasonably priced. Would definitely recommend

Lots of variety in plants and garden novelty's etc

Absolute shambles, we ordered 4 items between 2 of us and 3 of the orders were wrong. Had to as for my tea three times and in the end had to go to the counter and demand it. Shambles. Give it a miss.

Nice clean shop and friendly cafe Food was lovely,quick and hot

Lovely.. Xmas range Cafe lovely.. Light and airy little. CARD PAYMENT ONLY THROUGHOUT !! JOKE

Great place for quality plants but expect to pay top price for them. Like many garden centres the Cafe seems more popular than the plants and is getting bigger each time I visit with tables spreading out into the shopping spaces. My biggest problem with the place is how xmas arrives earlier every year with 3rd of the inside space being closed down for xmas grotto build from early July this year.

Excellent scrambled eggs on brown toast, buttered toasted tea cake. Two latté's and a scone to take home. All for under £15. Without a doubt excellent value for money in clean and pleasant surroundings.

Lots of choice cafe not open at the moment good social distance in operation.Clays now have a fantastic display of Christmas lights, trees and toys 😀about one third of the shop is dedicated to CHRISTMAS cafe is NOW open great food .Christmas is now over and the sales are now on discounts all over the shop.. Clays have a large collection of plants and garden furniture also disabled access parking and toilets no it hasn't changed but they're getting ready for CHRISTMAS 🤶 The Christmas display is fantastic better than last year Its back again CHRISTMAS all ready for a bumper time still as good as ever staff friendly. Just as good as ever food very good Once again it's time to get ready for CHRISTMAS a big chunk of the shop is getting ready to bring CHRISTMAS joy.

Great garden centre with a great cafe

Very informative and professional staff, great variety of plants

Food ok. Slow service. the same. The same but with loads of Xmas stuff. Great sausage sarnie. Same as before. 15.4.24 Ditto. 5.6.24

Had breakfast with my brother in the cafe last week , great food and coffee, friendly staff This was my first time here and will be back..

We visited Clay's this week and purchased a large hanging basket £40!!! Went to Penshaw Tea rooms today same size same quality £30.

The Cafe. Coffee wasn't great but the salads and trifles were very enjoyable. All seemed home made. The prices seemed a little high but not unreasonible.

Great selection of plants and lovely food in the cafe.

Friendly staff and great choice of quality plants.

Very busy garden centre with lots of variety and a good cafe restaurant. Good parking and helpful staff.

Nice café. Usually plenty of places to sit, but can be restricted at busy times. Also has an covered and sheltered outdoor seating area. Sadly the breakfast wrap has gone from the menu, but plenty of other choices. Toasties are good, with crisps and side salad. Cakes are even better, especially the tiffin (although some variants are not as good as others - looking at you biscotti) my favourite is the Malteser one. Please note that the tills are card only. It is always fun waiting in a queue when someone has missed the 15 or so signs pointing out "Card Only", including the 3 on the way to the counter! Tables are also well cleaned after use ready for next user.

Excellent choice of products, nice frendly staff.

Excellent selection of all plants from climbers to perennials

Good selection of plants and garden. Can be a bit on the pricey side.

Dispite being a garden center has great cafe dog friendly and GLUTEN free cakes

Popped into Clays today for look around for something for the garden . While I was there I could smell the Breakfasts getting served, so I thought I would order one . It was fresh , hot, and lovely . Bacon egg tomatoes beans sausage and fried bread. Then a nice coffee.

Getting a bit outdated and some items slightly expensive.

Well stocked garden centre with friendly helpful staff. Plenty of healthy plants, paving stones, gravel and garden furniture. Amazing place to visit from October onwards for Christmas decorations. Also has a lovely cafe and toilet facilities

Smells a bit funky when you first walk in, but good selection of plants and garden bits.

Great garden centre. Friendly staff and laid back off the road so it's a quiet location too. Dog friendly! Excellent idea.... If you're out for new Christmas decorations one year, forget Amazon... Go here instead and witness what's got to be the biggest and best Christmas selection in the country! Truly, it's a winter wonderland every year, for kids of all ages 😉

Nice variety of plants and dining area too

Unable to pay with cash. I hate B& Q but would rather shop there now!

Clays Garden Centre has a delightful cafe offering delicious food at reasonable prices. However, it's worth noting that the shop's products tend to be on the pricier side compared to other garden centres.

Good garden centre. Great cafe. Table service. Great for wheelchairs plenty of space. You can sit outdoors too. Good selection of plants . Good prices. They sell hot tubs and conservatories. Nice selection of cards and gifts.

Excellent garden centre selling a wide range of garden products in a very pleasant setting. Great cafe .

Called in to have a look at the stone that they had for my new aquarium. Aquarium shops charge anything up to 60 quid for a piece of rock. Welsh slate here was £4.99 or 2 for £9. I bought two large pieces which I will now cut down to the size I want. Lost a star because the staff were too busy talking to each other at the till rather than attend to me.

The garden centre itself is fine and has everything you would expect planting wise and furniture wise. The dissapointment was the cafe , the food was over priced and very poor in quality and taste. Cafe toilets werent very clean either

I have always liked Clays and have been a customer from the days when their premises were at Silksworth. Now they are based in Washington, it's not as far to go. I have always enjoyed nice meals there and the staff are a credit to the company.

Great 👍 full English breakfast 😋 very good

Beautifully presented garden center with vast selection of products. Cafe really good too .

The personnel employed by Mr Clay we have found to be most professional. I think ordinary customers like me would not expect anything else from his colleagues.

Nice cafe cute little garden centre

Lovely place for food and plants

Popped in to the Coffee Shop at Clay's Garden Centre today and had a terrific visit. Great coffee (and it was hot, which not all cafes seem to achieve!) and fab cakes/scones. (There's a lot more that I'll try another time). Service was friendly and quick and I'll be back very soon. A couple of staff from different departments said goodbye on my way out and thanked me for visiting. That kind of thing makes a big difference and stands out for the best reasons. Highly recommended.

I love clays its great and has a massive selection of plants and seeds

Visited today, Saturday 23 December 2023, at 12.30 for our annual visit for last-minute Christmas decorations, etc, and lunch. This to find the place shut with window shutters down and no cars in the park, although the Internet said it was open. I was very disappointed as I travelled from Bishop Auckland.

Lovely display as usual well done ... some things were a bit pricey but people don't care when it's Christmas

Really don't rate this place anymore. The overpriced Christmas decorations are just over the top pricey. You expect to pay a bit more ot being a garden centre but it's absolute daylight robbery the prices being charged in here. Walked in and straight back out and will not be back its just ridiculous.

Love my annual Xmas visit with family here

They wouldn't take my cash 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🐕♥️👍

Christmas products are not cheap but wow what a selection

We had a look around at their Christmas displays

Some lovely Christmas things in but a bit expensive.

Always a welcome at Clays. Very friendly staff great coffee shop and xmas display

Food here is very good. The selection off Christmas decorations is vast very good priced. Good knowledge very helpful in all areas

Really pretty with all the Christmas decorations but really expensive

Visiting family, nice garden centre. It was a shame the cafe closed so early.

Worth a visit with with the children or grandchildren. Very Christmasy at the moment but still full of expert gardeners eager to help.

Card only, why on earth would a business want to turn cash paying customers away, even cafe card only, had a look around and left, even staff said its none stop complaints about card only. Lost my custom

Was deeply disappointed in the cafe today due to technical issues with payment and staff reluctant to take cash. As a diabetic, thankfully, I had eaten before visiting or my health may have suffered going without food or drink.

Christmas in your face as soon as you walk in, a bit overwhelming for me so far from the main event.

Decided this place was worth repeat visit with a friend following a very pleasing visit a few weeks ago. It was a disaster! Had to wait for a table. Stood 18 minutes in the queue to be served only to be informed that 2 of the 3 items we wanted were no longer available. Completely spoiled our lunch get together. The system of work urgently needs a review, it lets the cafe down badly.

Luved the Christmas decorations

Excellent Christmas display, well worth a visit .

Lovely place to visit for all kids and adults. Expensive thou x

Today we decided to visit in memory of a departed loved one’s birthday because he was a great fan of garden centres including this one. However we found the place miserable despite all the festive decor. The staff member in the restaurant was miserable and hardly gave eye contact. The waitress who bought our coffee over was miserable as was the one at the till at the exit who took our money without a word said. In between we felt intimidated by another following us all over the store and even when we went out to the outdoor plants area. I do not think I will ever return

Lovely Xmas display, but rather expensive.

Sehr schönes garden center. Große Auswahl, faire Preise. Das Café ist phantastisch, sehr zu empfehlen.

Clay’s do not take Cash so I will not be back.

I love catching up with family at the cafe but what really puts me off is the massive queue everytime we come as there is only ever 1 person serving. At least 30 to 40 mins queuing everytime, it's ridiculous. Please Clays, can you sort this out as you need at least 2 tills and 2 people taking orders. I heard at least 5 people in the queue complaining of the time it takes to order

Its Christmas and you have to visit Clays, and while we there have, a breakfast

if you want xmas dec's go here never seen so many,It also has a great cafe,Loads of parking spaces

Love going to clays in the running up to Christmas they have some fantastic Christmas stuff.

Probably the best garden centre in the North East.

I love this place they always have a beautiful Christmas display and the staff are always friendly

Do not venture into this place, Another Card only establishment, got all the way to till to be told, NO CASH, left my £30 purchase at the till and left When are people going to understand what is going on, the Government can't wait to get rid of cash and have the masses under control, don't use cards, keep cash, going, understand your you are giving up your freedom,,,,

Omg the Christmas selection is amazing

Christmas decorations fantastic 👍

All geared up for Christmas and not much else

Always love Clays at Christmas time, unfortunately they did not have any apple crumble cheesecake in this time in the cafe, maybe next time 😁

Christmas display excellent never disappointed ideal for children and adults gets you in to the festive season then finish off at the cafe for coffee

Friendly helpful staff .The food in the cafe was excellent. The 1st time I've been there I will definitely go again

Great cafe, and it's great to see a full Christmas range

Love it at Christmas the breakfast are amazing we there 3 to 4 times a month x

Friendly and helpful staff wonderful atmosphere

Had breakfast in the cafe. I have to say it was excellent. Couldn't fault the food or service. Bought some hessian sacks to store our potato crop and also got some seed potato's to grow in the greenhouse for Christmas lunch.

Very quiet in shop today usually heaving on a Saturday very expensive, card only at tills seems a bit odd now since covid and Xmas stuff out at start of September

OK. Bit expensive Excellent Christmas range.

Lovely garden centre with coffee shop

Very helpful and knowledgeable staff Variety of plants

Good choice good prices very helpful

Extremely overpriced. Went in and nearly had a heart attack at the prices. The same plant that I was looking at for £29.99 was in B&M garden centre over the road for £15.00. How can you have such a massive mark up? Avoid - and go over the road to B&M.

Was a very nice garden centre, was cheap and had nice stuff until we were approached and threatened by an old man, making up accusations, getting in our faces and getting staff involved leading to around 5 staff and an old man running after us around the whole shop and then proceeding to kick us out for absolutely nothing. The staff were very rude and did not acknowledge anything we said, they took what we wanted to buy off us. And made us leave, just because we are younger women. They did not look to see if anything the man had said was true or why he was acting this way to us. I have never felt so uncomfortable and pushed aside in my life. They had no clue what the old man saying to us to or what he was doing or could have done. They continue to let him shop as we were thrown out. Never again…

Vety good, excellent and friendly staff and the best scones in the area 😀

Think it's very expensive here but love looking around especially at Christmas 🎄

The garden centre is expensive but you get what you pay for, plants are well keep and ready for re planting, they sell a good range of garden furniture and ornaments, alongside a very nice café, well worth a visit.

Great place with lots of great plants and additions for your garden. Lovely friendly staff.

Good selection of plants. Dog friendly.

Apart from having a a long look around inside and out the huge centre we wanted specific compost and rooting powder for cuttings. The centre has everything any garden could need, but with money tight it was window shopping mainly. Our little one woke up in time for lunch and the very busy coffee shop was a welcome break, even sitting Al fresco as it was a warm day. We all expected the prices to be ridiculous but they were very well priced. Service was excellent. An enjoyable hour and a half, wish we had more money to spend ha ha

Well stocked but found it rather expensive.