Coton Orchard in South Cambridgeshire

I love visiting Coton Orchard Garden Centre! No matter if it's shopping for summer gardening or Christmas! The atmospere is great and the range of products is amazing! I always find wbat I need!

Recently taken over by big chain. I think it's lost its individual charm, it's more expensive and you have to walk past too many nicnacs before you get to a garden plant! Would rather stick with smaller but family run friendly garden centres. Good cafe, wide range cakes.

Very good shop - but a rubbish uneven car park of old concrete and road rubble that their trolleys struggle with.

Waiting so long 4 food not enough staff I don't want 2 walk 20 or 30 mins 4 lunch and was not well after

Same as every garden centre, nothing unusual

Excellent place to come, such a choice to choose from, but something for everyone’s garden and taste, lovely restaurant too, great friendly staff

Three of us had lunch here after looking round the garden centre. Descriptions of the food on the menu sounded very good. In reality all three of our meals were disappointing. Omelette dry chewy and tasteless, burger bun dry and hard, chicken cordon bleu was basically a small chicken kiev with a pile of very boring boiled potatoes.

Nice restaurant Lots of things to buy and see

Great selection of plants and garden ware . Has cafe but short of indoor table spaces due to size.

Lovely place, mix of everything expected in a garden centre. Not cheapest, but 100% quality. Staff are amazing. Treated ourselves to pieces of fillet steak, melted in mouth beautiful when cooked at home. The sauce they put on it made it even more amazing Plants also high quality, lots of choices. Cant wait to revisit xxx

Went here for a belated Mother’s Day. Mum was happy with the selection and quality of their plants, and there were some very appetizing cakes and treats in their shop, but their cafe seems overpriced for very average food. The chicken cordon bleu was a bit hard, seemingly overdone, and a glorified chicken Kiev, and the burger was also quite tough and overdone, and dry because of it. I dare not try a slice of their tray bake at over £5 for a slice, it was no longer reasonable.

Cotton is one of the best Garden centres for miles.

Nice, good sized garden centre. Prices on plants and garden supplies here are more reasonable when compared to other garden centres. The food from the counters initially looks a little expensive but the taste and the quality makes it worth it.

Lovely garden centre. Plants good and reasonably priced. Great clothes and delivfull of delicious looking fruit and veg and other treats. Toys, garden furniture. Aquatics shop with interesting fish and tanks. Good overall atmosphere. Have not tried the cafe but always seems very full so assume it is very good.

Well stocked and reasonably priced garden centre. Particular credit goes to the gentlemen working in the outdoor section, every time I asked something about a plant, they seem quite knowledgeable giving extensive answers and practical advises!

I'm not to keen on this food.6mile drive was nice 🙂. I bought a short bread it WAS STALE. Flies on the food.the staff was nice.

Friendly helpful staff. Nice selection of plants and anything else you may want for your garden along with the obligatory candles etc.. ..some good bargains to be had here. Wonderful cafe that does a good Sunday roast and selection of cakes.

I like the cafe and garden centre also beautiful , gave me a feel of visiting an actual garden rather than a commercial garden centre.

Lovely quality Garden Centre selling the usual range of Garden and non garden products. Integrated Maidenhead Aquatics store is very good

Nice garden center! Has a nice range of gardening supplies as well as other miscellaneous things like food section, gifts, puzzles etc etc. The cafe always looks busy and am still to go for a meal there because it always smells amazing.

I'm so confused based on other reviews, friends had recommended as well, but it seems they only meant the cafe. This is a multilevel environment with no signage how to get between the levels (it's hard if you are outside with a trolley to say the least) I have never been more frustrated trying to find my way around and get back. Inside so may Isles are not large trolley friendly and you have to turn round and find another route because they are too narrow or blocked. The angles on the pathways are terrible, as in slanting, impossible to steer a trolley with anything on anywhere without assistance from someone (which I didn't know and didn't have) you get straight again having moved to the front of the trolley to pull it round and then you hit a trench for a drain in the tarmac added after the tarmac was laid and the trolley stops dead and everything falls off. If I hadn't had my 4 year old daughter with me I would have left the whole lot there and walked out at this point, I was genuinely hating my choice to venture out at all let alone come here and in serious ankle pain. On reflection I wish I had abandoned the the trolley and fallen goods, we followed the solo sign to the tills, a cafe, where do we go, nobody to help there, wander along and find an entrance and ask someone yes through some random gap in the wall. Once again poorly laid out, had to go down another isle as there was a guy blocking the main way and then caught on overhanging goods for sales that meant going round. My daughter described it as the puddle place to my wife as the car park is so poorly maintained I had water come over the top of my trainer trying to strap her in. If it could be my first 0 it would, I've never not enjoyed visiting a garden centre but this is it. If it wasn't in Cambridge they wouldn't survive as we have such poor choice they know people will.

It is one of the finest garden centres. Breakfast sets you up for the day, then all departments have first-rate items & plants.

Restaurant staff could do with proper customer care training. We weren't shown to our reserved table. We sat for 15 minutes before we asked for service only to be told you must place your order at the counter. After paying for our food, we were told there was a 40 minute wait. We found out by chance that there was an electronic call system when your order was ready. Severe lack of obvious information offered to us, the customer, to make our visit more enjoyable. Fish and chips was superb. Lemon Chicken very poor. Regretfully, we won't be rushing back anytime soon.

Posting about the cafe, good quality food (cheese and ham toastie) but took half hour to get it 🤔

Good Garden Centre. Several "departments" inside, too. Clothes, crafts, kitchenware, and groceries, to name a few. A little overpriced as with any Garden centre. Restaurant is excellent and well worth a visit.

Good place for all your garden needs. I went there for indoor plants. They also have a nice cafe.

Went with a friend. Really disappointed with our food and how much you get for the price. Overly priced. My quiche was as dry as a bone, seems like it was sitting in the oven all day, or microwaved, no taste at all, I had to drink plenty of water to stop my dry mouth and throat from coughing as it was very dry. We won't be having food here again. Ridiculous prices and quantity and quality poor.

Garden centre is lovely have been going to this place for many years. Food has gone down hill over the years, had a breakfast witch was very expensive, and worse Breakfast l have ever had, couldn't eat it, eggs were runny bacon and Sausage not cooked, l did complain thought l should have got money back but no one came forward out of Kitchen

Variety of plants indoor and outdoor . Best customer service . support staff avaiable. Amazing caffe with wide range of cakes the honey cake was a good one .

I ordered the full English minus baked beans and black pudding. The breakfast came with baked beans. What was most disappointing was that there was only HALF a mushroom and HALF a tomato. What a disgrace! Regardless that they had already made a saving. Total bill including a flat white coffee was £15. I think I will look elsewhere in the future.

A full shopping experience. House plants, home fragrance, clothing, homeware, garden supplies and plants, deli, food and drink, gifts, cafe.

Visited Conton Orchard Garden Centre late December so never got the best of it. Large centre selling more than just plants, there are household, cloths and a big Christmas desplay. We went between Christmas and New Year and all Christmas stuff was 50% off. Like many places the starting price is on the high side. We popped into the cafe and that was all very nice. Will revisit again during the summer to see all they have to offer. Worth a visit

Beautiful garden centre with the best plant section! Kate was so helpful finding me the perfect plants and pots.

Really good for the frozen foods like fish cakes and Mac n cheese bites!

The centre has an excellent shop including high quality food, an aquarium shop, clothes and gifts. The plants are very good quality and the range is also good. I’d also recommend the cafe. A great place to go just outside Cambridge

Great garden centre. Love going here for bath products and wax melts.

We went to take the kids to see Santa, the staff were lovely and very nice but this review is only for the overall experience. To be totally honest spending £20 to see Santa and for two gifts for our children it wasn't really worth it as it was just a shed and a couple of trees, I was hoping for a little more magic. One of the gifts was probably worth about 4 o 5 pounds so feel a little short changed also the pencil sharpener just disintegrated whe the first pencil was being sharpened. The staff and Santa were great I think the setup let them down.

Love Bamboos but dare not to grow in my garden.

Nice, good choice on many products, plants choice ok plus well looked after.

Plenty of parking, a large range of goods and reasonable value food in the restaurant. Downsides, hopeless signs to the restaurant, we weren’t the only people who commented on this. We were hoping to have breakfast but after taking sometime to find the restaurant, waiting for over 15 minutes to get a table and then waiting in a rather long queue, the breakfasts were finished. Despite these small problems, we would still visit again.

Had a lovely lunch,some good savings on many things.

There’s not many vegan options to replace cheese or milk. There’s no vegan options at all for cupboard stuff in general, unless the product is vegan by nature like passata etc. the quality of veggies and fruits is great. There’s products that I can also find at Sainsbury’s which is 5 minutes away, but this orchard charges you about 1 or 2 pounds more for those same things. The plants are overpriced. A red Christmas plant was 25 pounds at a point. In general, you find decent stuff, but be prepared to pay more for it. It’s the same decent stuff you’d find in a chain store for less money. Lastly, The thing that stood out for me was the lack of diversity in the staff. Most of it is white English women, and I’d expect to see more gender and nationality diversity in any 21st century staff. Anyways, good place, weird vibes.

Your one stop shopping for clothing,plant/flowers, bakery, butchers,gardening and aquatics.

A very nice garden center with a lot of good produce. I went for the Maidstone Aquatics franchise which is a great shop to visit.

Excellent selection of gifts, garden products etc and the café is good as well. The deli seems to have some unusual items in it but the cheese selection wasn't great. Ample parking. We went in mid December and the garden centre side still looked well stocked.

Dining 3xperience poor. Raised with management

We recently stopped here for the first time and what magical Christmas theme it has at the moment, there are items for everyone and an excellent aquatics center inside with lots of equipment and fish etc. Highly recommend here if looking for Christmas decorations and presents and keep an eye out for the singing reindeer ❤️👍

Love all about Coton Garden centre The restaurant was busy but service was swift and food was lovely There was a lovely atmosphere!

Fantastic Christmas displays. My granddaughter loved it. Also lived the fish. Good tea and cake

Great place to visit it's got everything garden centre, food hall, restaurant, and much more.

Loads of Christmas bargains Restaurant very busy but staff helpful and friendly Had a lovely cheese scone and a cup of tea. A very pleasant morning

Great larger than I thought and brilliant restaurant

Very busy on a Sunday, car park is a bit rough in places, few pot holes need to be filled. Good Christmas display and nice place to visit.

Great selection of everything and the service is great

Beautiful. Great variety of stuff.

It is an amazing place and the food is delicious 😋

Love this place! From shopping to having a pot of tea and cake. Was lovely!!

Amazing & unique gifts & ideas. Wonderful selection of plants/shrubs & garden items. Awesome food in the restaurant-if visiting at the weekend,recommend booking a table for lunch.

found several xmas presents that I needed

Wonderful food in the restaurant and a lovely place to wander around.

Nice garden centre. Lots of choice of things to look at for gifts etc. Café was very busy although queue moved slowly through ordering and why are plates for cakes placed in middle of cakes and scones. When there is a queue,you xan't get to the plates as people are standing in front of them,and when you get to the plates,you can't go back easily to get a scone. I preferred cutlery on table,rather than picking it up yourself. Sat down and didn't realize system had changed Lunch was lovely.

Nice place Sunday lunch was average though. Needed more actual food .

Lovely place if not a little expensive

A little expensive for some items but bang on for others.

Beautiful Christmas display as always,lovely ornaments you don't see other places, friendly staff and gorgeous food department

Lovely visit, lots of Christmas decorations, great food hall and nice clean cafe

Beautiful garden centre, after last renovation it really shines. Good café and plenty of parking. Good deli shop.

For all your garden needs and more - lovely cafe

Excellent Garden Centre and more, super restaurant. Great selection of clothes, food and numerous other product's.

It was an outlet for a lot more than horticultural supplies.

Fabulous place to buy anything garden! Definitely recommended!

My friend and i was taken as a treat to your garden centre. We were all very impressed by it. But was very dissapointed with the food we bought. We both bought Williams, chocolate chip butter biscuits for our famiy and cCc sweet treats Liquorice Allsorts for our gandchildren. This produce was stale and hard to eat. Such a shame when we bought these for our family and they couldnt eat them, Maureen Sibley

Lovely garden centre with really tasty home made produce (I recommend the sausage rolls!) ample parking. We visit regularly.

Well where do I start, been coming here for sometime as the breakfast are amazing, fast forward to yesterday, the breakfast arrived and looked amazing until I started to eat it, sausage raw hardly any colour on them, bacon had more colour when it came out the fridge, eggs where the only edible item on the plate, hash brown soggy and raw inside, then the black pudding again raw. The mushroom was a joke it had been cut in half and the other half appeared to be on my husbands plate, I address this with one of the waiters, he did offer to get it sorted but let’s be honest who wants a warmed up breakfast, to say disappointed is an understatement, now wish I had spoken to the manage, I believe he did stick his head out the kitchen but not once did he come and speak to me directly. Very poor show won’t be back in a hurry unless by magic the get a new cook

My first visit to this place, it’s the nearest Garden centre to my new home, absolutely amazing food and snacks available both in the Cafe and to purchase and take home. Bought a great plant pot and at a bargain price in their reduced area, a huge selection of plants, tree, flowers and so much more, staff are incredibly helpful and polite too.

All the usual things you expect from a garden centre plus tropical fish are worth a visit.

Kay and Lucy went above and beyond in the post office to help charge my phone and print a label to get my parcel sent. Thank you!

One of the best places to spend time in Cambridge. Great quality in each sector and the restaurant and cafeteria are impeccable

We went their for food, and the menu didn't have a great deal of choice for vegetarians, so I decided on the squash tart Sunday roast but then when it came it was only slightly warm, (being on the verge of cold when I finished) the red cabbage seemed undercooked and after being told it would come with all the roast stuff their was no gravy despite it being a red wine gravy, so very annoyed there and just underwhelming. However, they were able to accommodate and change the chicken Caesar salad to make it dairy free

Always enjoyed our time here. Great place for a variety garden plants and other related stuff and a lovely cafeteria. Good food with inside and outside seating available.

Excellent garden centre, but went particularly for the Aquatic centre. This was not as good as past visits, unfortunately.

Excellent range of products & plants.

Something for everyone and a very nice cafe.

Very good but we went to try your cheese scobes with cream cheese but no cheese scones or cream cheese. 3 rather disappointed ladies. Apart from that we enjoyed the garden centre

Lovely garden centre very reasonably priced,restaurant has lots of lovely food at great prices,very clean too

Lovely garden centre and so much more. Great shopping gardening equipment, housewares, clothing, gifts etc etc. Fabulous place. Unfortunately our second visit wasn't so good, this time we had lunch rather than breakfast and we were both disappointed by the quality. Don't think we will bother with food next time. The shopping experience was still really nice, hence the three star rating.

I've never visited here before, but was very impressed with the wide range of products and the special offers. Lots of healthy looking plants and shrubs for both indoors and outdoors, as well as unusual accessories. Interesting food items and treats - especially scented items. Was spoilt for choice. Had lunch and plenty of options for veggies/vegans . As it was a Sunday, there was a roast (meat only) on offer, but sadly no soup. Disabled toilet - occupied by a perfectly healthy young boy, but that was his mother's fault, not his. Also disabled parking. Will definitely revisit in the Spring to buy garden plants.

Absolutely knockout garden centre,loads of plants , indoor and outdoor,superb tearoom(which we indulged ourselves in), plus plenty of food to fill your boot up with,all in all a centre which you could quite spend several hours looking around. Well-done 👋👋

Lovely garden centre, inviting and welcoming. Good range of plants. A little expensive but worth it

Beautiful garden centre, lovely items I would definitely recommend a visit if you aren't too far away. They always have some kind of offer to be had.

A huge garden center very close to the city centre. The meats and vegetables in the food shop are fresh and reasonably priced.

We called in on the way home from Cambridge for a cappuccino and tea with two cream teas. The queue was lengthy and the "service" was very slow. No offer of help to our table was made and I had to ask for it. Seems disabilities don't matter ! I returned to our table and the tray was duly brought. I didn't notice the cutlery in the plant pot as it was hidden by paper serviettes so I went back to the serving area and asked a young lad where the cutlery was. The reply was a very abrupt, "It should be in the b***** flower pot on the table". Sorry I asked. Sorry I didn't have the intelligence to notice it in the first place. Sorry to have troubled you. Sorry you were stressed and didn't want to be there. I returned to the table and lifted up the serviettes which revealed the cutlery. Deep joy. Eureka ! The scones were very warm which is probably why they were soggy in the middle. More like dumplings than scones. We ate them regardless as I just couldn't be bothered anymore. We then had a further very long wait at the exit tills when my wife paid for a new dress. Again, lengthy queues, which was not surprising as the checkout staff were clueless and there were several customer problems in front of us having problems with scanning and paying. The bloke trying to sort things out had no idea what he was doing and there were trip hazards everywhere behind the tills by way of boxes, baskets and detritus. What a shambles. The Blue Diamond headquarters on Guernsey is brilliant and I am surprised they allow Coton to be run in such a shoddy fashion. Anyway - long story short - we won't be coming back to this dump.

Well that was disappointing …. we went here for lunch today, but also to buy some plants. We chose, for lunch, the ciabatta with Applewood cheese etc., the bread was very good but what happened to the filling .. …. if there had been a slight breeze it would have blown away. I don’t know how the cheese was sliced so thinly, there was definitely no taste of anything other than the bread !! We left without buying plants as we were so disappointed …. and don’t think we will be back or recommend the place to anyone !

Awful- we have been three times recently and we arrived early for food. All the tables were taken- reserved by people in the queue so my pregnant friend had to stand around while I stood in the queue. It took so long to get to the food choices that my lovely pregnant friend had to sit down or leave. We went to this cafe because historically it has been amazing with service and food. It was made clear in the past that you couldn’t reserve tables- so everyone queued.

Visited this morning ordered coffee and chocolate muffin both nice. Staff polite and friendly- service with smiles. Cafe clean as was garden centre offering a range of great items to buy. I bought shoes and bird food. Always plenty of staff to help. The butchers and food hall really good too. 😊

Lovely place to visit with a wide range of merchandise. Delicatessen has a wonderful smell as you walk in. Prices like must garden centres are at the higher range you would expect to pay. However qood quality. Downside is the cafe. Always busy whenever I have visited, although we were not told about the wait for food, I had heard 40 minutes mention by both a disgruntled gent who kept his tray and told the rest of the q as he walked out, and by the cashier to someone ahead of me. Pricey food for portion size.

Good place to visit if you have children as there is a nice play area within the cafe. However, last few visits have been disappointing. Food doesn’t seem freshly cooked, bacon hard and dried out, like it’s been sitting around for a while…… rolls never buttered as stated in menu. Today no butter anyway, only margarine. Staff seem unhappy and apathetic. With inflation and increasing prices everywhere eating out is a considered option. On a positive note scones and cakes look good and no complaints with coffee and teas but a definite downturn in cooked meals.

Just had a wonderful birthday afternoon tea at Coton Orchard Garden Centre. The food was delicious and plentiful and the staff were amazing. Could not have been better. Thank you so much for your hospitality and service

I was in the garden centre today and overheard a member of staff now know to be called Edward swearing multiple swear words & insults about another member of staff for five minutes he was degrading this other person whoever that was. I was hovering nearby hoping to get some help but but I couldn't get his attention even though I tried really you should train your staff better it takes a lot to offend me to be honest I was a little bit shocked

We had to wait over an hour for our food, as did most other customers- simply unacceptable not to warn people when ordering that the kitchen were short staffed, no chef, and everything in chaos. It’s also unfair on the staff desperately trying to placate hungry and angry customers. Apologies were slow to materialise. Either close or reduce your menu or offer free coffee- will not visit again till you sort out the staffing.