Haskins Garden Centre in Southampton

Haskins is a really nice garden centre. Well presented and maintained. Nice visual merchandising and some great products. The cafe is also nice with a lot of choice. It was always somewhere to get a good lunch. Lately however, I personally feel the prices for the food are getting a bit out of hand. Lunch has become overpriced and I can no longer justify returning as often. So while lunch for two is now the same price as a meal out on a weekend evening with a family of four, it's 3 stars.

I'm regular for the restaurant over time food gone expensive but low in quality especially sweet treats like cakes seem bit dry fudge cake is not really a fudge cake it's dry baked with chocolate powder and hints of butter cream on it, Victoria sponge is also very dry , scones are like a bread they not supposed to be spongy like a bread I admit only thing was nice is eclair. Also staff don't know what is suitable vegetarian always run to the back of the restaurant to get the book to check and there's looks are not friendly not all but some.itia helpful if they labeled stuff it will be helpful for allergie sufferers too

Plenty of parking, super friendly staff and an amazing range, foods pretty good too

Expensive food. Not much variety for vegans

Great centre offering a wide variety of plants, (though expensive), gardening tools, and most things for the garden. They also have many things for kids. They have a fantastic restaurant and great staff but need to improve on staffing at checkouts. We ordered food but the only place to pay was also serving coffee, so by the time you waited for 5 or 6 people to order and get coffee 3 of the meals had cooled considerably. Overall a good experience

First visit and very impressed with the range and health of the plants.

Fantastic range of quality plants herbs ect plus a lovely range of food toilets were immaculate and there's a cafe there too. Dogs are welcome in the garden centre bonus

Got what we wanted, but it's a huge place and difficult to find things

This places is basically a restaurant with garden centre attached. However along side the clothing, gift items and toys it does actually sells a large range of plants, bulbs and seeds. Also stocks a large range of house plants.

Lovely garden centre, great cafe/restaurant.

Really lovely store, a big restaurant with plenty of choice. The inside shop 🛍 has got some lovely items. There is a good selection of plants 🪴

Fantastic cafe and great variety of products. Plenty of parking too

As someone who also works in hospitality, I was genuinely shocked and disappointed by how I was treated by the middle-aged server with glasses at the hot drinks section. I politely asked for cold water, and in response, she gave me a dirty, dismissive look and deliberately filled my bottle with boiling hot water without saying a word. It came across as passive-aggressive and completely unprofessional. I understand everyone has bad days — I’ve had them too — but there is absolutely no excuse for reacting to a simple, polite request in such a hostile and potentially dangerous way. I nearly burned my mouth trying to take a sip, and my bottle is now warped and unusable. I’ll need to buy a new one as a result. What made it worse was the clear impression that she assumed, because I’m young, I wouldn’t say anything or take it further. That’s both patronising and unacceptable. I’ve eaten here a couple of times before and the other members of staff have always been pleasant and welcoming, which makes this experience all the more disappointing. Unfortunately, after this incident, I won’t be coming back again.

Food is so good. Recommend the cream tea 😋

One member of staff was particularly helpful and spent a lot of time helping to to choose the right plants for the different areas in my garden. Thanks to him I finally got all I need to make my garden look beautiful! I love this place!

Good quality and friendly store

Sizeable garden centre, dog-friendly, plenty of gifts, ornaments, garden furniture, lighting, bird food (and gardening stuff!). Also a large cafe with hot and cold food. A-Z plant section isn't always kept stocked, but plenty of seasonal plants. From ~late September they have a huge selection of Christmas decs, lights, etc. Prices are fair and similar to most other centres. Lots of parking. The Hobbycraft next door is also good.

Go every month foods always nice.

Food was awful- cold had toasted sandwiches only toasted on one side! Ham/cheese and tomato had spring onions in ok if you like onions! Chips were cold so they replaced them for them to be cold too! £24 on a lunch that was awful! Maybe suggest doing every day favourite sandwiches. Tried their toasted tea cakes in the past & same issue- cold!

Good Garden centre plants but very expensive cafe /restaurant

Lovely garden centre, plenty of healthy plants and a great range of clothes, homewares and kids toys.

Probably best garden centre in Southampton area, but a bit pricey

Queued for what seemed like a decade for coffee and cake.

What a lovely place! The food in the restaurant was very tasty! Would definitely go again.

The restaurant is very nice place to eat, lovely food options. But be prepared to pay an arm and a leg!

Great range of plants, garden products and a large cafe. A little expensive for my liking, but good quality

Very wide range and helpful staff large cafe/restaurant

The size of this place is impressive, it's selection of garden related products is excellent and the food hall is brilliant with far more selection than you would expect from a garden center. Overall an excellent, although expensive, but you pay for what you get, garden center.

TARDIS!!! Huge inside with an enormous Restaurant! Who knew?

Had such a lovely lunch here! Would definitely recommend 🙌🏻✨️

Sadly, this is well overpriced, and so is the cafe.

So good there are Q&A which helps.

A great place with many useful stuff to buy

Always a pleasure going here,staff very helpful & food lovely. Thank 😊

Has a very good cafe/ restaurant. Excellent cakes.

Nothing was to much trouble for the staff, so very helpful and patient. One member of staff went and collected some all purpose soil for us and she took it out to the car. Lovely spacious shop, with seasonal gifts available at certain times of the year. Lots of Easter and mother day things on show. We went to the restaurant, some of the food is pricey but looks and tasted fresh. Scones are very popular, they had fruit,plain and cheese scones. Lots of seating places with plenty of room. Very clean, tidy and friendly staff.

Great little garden centre, prices very mixed but worth a visit, everything for the garden and more. Some great gift ideas and lots of variety in clothes, food, drink, toys and the usalu suspects for a garden centre. Good cafe and plenty of parking.

Great venue for all gardening needs, especially on a rainy day as 90% undercover. Cafe is exceptional for meals all day but expensive these days.

Lots of plants and decent coffee

Had breakfast not so good beans cold,bacon and sausage under cooked.

Fantastic gluten free victoria sponge!! Would you consider adding a savoury gluten free scone to your menu?

Busy. Noisey cafe which could benefit from acoustic improvements, i.e. improve the soft furnishings on walls and ceilings.

The brunch was tasty and the service was really well organised. There was plenty of space to eat and it was all tidied quickly by the staff. The staff are really helpful, and they even posted us a letter we purchased and accidentally left at the till. Above and beyond, thank you 👍🏼

Lovely premises lots to browse, always find something to buy. Good restaurant

An excellent opportunity for tea and cake.

Fantastic store with everything laid out so beautifully and a superb restaurant 👌

The Garden centre is lovely - tidy and a good range of products/plants. The reason for 3 stars is the price of the restaurant... £60 for 4 people to eat a jacket potato, and a cup of tea.... Not only this, but the lady serving the jacket potatoes was incredibly rude. She tried forcing one of the food heat protectors onto the plate, despite it clearly not fitting, and when I politely said "oh don't worry, I don't need one" she tutted, walked away, and began clearly gossiping with her colleague (who was meant to be serving my mum), laughing, and raising eyebrows.

great place to stop for lunch or a treat and so many nice things to buy we go quite often and never disappointed

One of Southamptons best lunch venues as well as a first rate garden centre. Very reasonable prices in both the restaurant and garden centre also home to a very large and well stocked indoor sales area.

Visited the restaurant today for coffee and cake. As always, a great selection of cakes to choose from. Drinks were good but what have you done to your hot chocolate Haskins?? Yes it was chocolatie but really not as nice as it used to be... 2 hot drinks + 2 small cakes.. £17.50. About what you'd expect to pay.

Massive building on the old A27 road. Plenty of free parking and a spacious interior. All things gardening, big and small with a lot more besides. Cafe, farm produce, books and when in season, toys.

Everything for gardening, & a geat coffee shop/restaurant

Haskins offers variety but as with many places food prices are going up and mixture of plants and other goods is always worth a visit

A lovely garden centre, but on the expensive side for most things

A large and expensive garden centre. Good range of plants as well as gifts and seasonal stuff. Dog friendly. Very large cafe with some outside seating.

A bit pricey but nice for a visit.

Great place for look around and coffee and cake.

Have visited here numerous times and always really liked it. But today I would not be coming back to this garden centre. They have a gift wrapping ‘service’ in which you can get your items wrapped for whatever occasion for £2.99 so I chose to have this service for my brother in laws birthday present. The lady at the till looked in total shock because I asked to have it gift wrapped? So asked the lady which I presume is the main wrapper to do this. She made me feel so uncomfortable must of had a bad day at work so rude, when asking what colours throwing the scissors on the table in anger. Why have a gift wrapping service if you’re going to be so rude for one and so shocked to be asked to wrap. What kind of service is that. I walked off with my wrapped gift and the two lady’s was chatting about me and the lady was getting so angry. So unprofessional I will not be coming here again total disgusting.

Love this garden centre, its full of amazing items for home as well as the garden. There is a range of home cooking products my wife goes mad for. We visited a lot over christmas and they do in-store coupons which we collected 2 for our free cuddly toy. Kids took part in the hunt the bear challenge in store too. The cafe sets the standard compared to most food courts. Amazing fresh made food and sweet treats. If you get the chance just stop in for lunch regardless of the shopping. I will be in the near future. Lots of parking, shares a carpark with hobbycraft, although it does still get very busy. Always found a space, so far.

Amazing place and amazingly ridiculous prices. In and out in 10 minutes.😳

A very good store. It’s amazing at Christmas, we come here every year at Christmas! It’s a very good place to go for Christmas stuff, and at all times of the year, it’s great for gifts, garden stuff, or just to pass the time! However, the stuff is rather expensive. Also, the restaurant isn’t great, I’ve never come in here and enjoyed my food, so won’t be going there again. Overall though, I recommend the actual store but not the restaurant.

Lovely popular garden centre and shop. Excellent facilities. The restaurant has a very wide choice, in different sections. The vast array of cakes is amazing! The only downside is queuing to pay, getting cutlery, water, finding a seat if having a hot meal. Can be pricey for what is a canteen where the customer has to do all the fetching and carrying.

Lots of festive items available, including special comestibles, drinks and decorations.

Great experience here. Especially the Santa hunt in November 24.

Great for shopping (Gifts for Christmas in particular) huge cafe.

Great service and lovely staff 👍

Really enjoy visiting this garden centre in the summer for all plants such a great choice and at Christmas for all the bits and pieces, the restaurant has a wide choice of hot and cold food and the cakes are unbelievable

Great for shopping ( gifts at Xmas in particular) huge cafe which is great, and good service. But I've always found the food runs out quickly. If you plan to eat there, you can't leave it too late.

Restaurant located within the chain of Haskins garden centre, this was the west end branch on a busy lunch time leading up to Christmas. Very busy at this time of year and welcomely located while buying those presents. The restaurant has a wide range of choices of cold and hot food to cater for all sorts of tastes, including cakes, sandwiches, pizza, carvery and the hot food menu. We opted for the 'panini', for a hot light choice. One Christmas special and the other a chorizo and chicken. Both were generously filled and freshly warmed when ordered. The Christmas special contained turkey, sausage, stuffing and brie, you can taste all the components, all tasted great together, the panini bread is ample, beautifully crusty with a soft center. Served with some very nice fries, salad and coleslaw. Very good value for money, filling and tasted great. Would happily recommend. Visited 4th Dec 2024, for a festive lunch, I had the bacon brie and chili jam toastie served with chips and salad, coleslaw. My wife had the carrot and coriander soup. Soup was OK. My toastie was OK filling wise, not the most generous, the salad on the other hand was horrendous, not washed at all, had one bite and it was all grit. Not good. Bit disappointed this trip as generally they were good,

Great place to visit excellent customer service

A better cooked breakfast than I expected. Good options, 8 items which is a good amount, cooked well. Toast could be a bit more toasted though. Lovely latte too

Our annual Christmas Tree purchase and cooked breakfast tradition and excellent as always! Friendly staff and wonderful atmosphere.

Went pick up my wife from coffee morning. While waiting I had a pot of tea and a lovely slice of fruit cake

This place is always SO busy. It is a go to destination for Christmas bits and the cafe has a very large selection of good quality hot food. The cakes are quantity over quality, but still enjoyable. It’s all expensive compared to a Dobbies, but as a shopping experience it is definitely high quality.

It's really all about the restaurant, which does serve some rather tasty snacks!

The food was ok but not enough staff in the coffee shop

The garden centre equivalent of Fat Face, decent stuff but @20/30% dearer than it really should be.

We went to Haskins Garden Centre specifically to buy a Father Christmas and there were plenty of them. We also had a Costa coffee and a cheese scone, which was delicious and an almond croissant equally delicious. The only thing I will say is a lot of their items are quite expensive.

Lovely experience nice staff got what I went for

So much to see ..caffe was really good

Had a nice lunch. And was able to spend voucher for things we needed for the garden

No better place to spend a Sunday! Tea and cakes and a bit of shopping ;) Christmas stuff is amazing! The best of all garden centres this year! Usually 'G' wins.

I had a lovely lemon cannoli at the Costa. Then a nice wander around the shop.

You could get stuck here all day just looking at the Christmas stuff! Good amount of home ware and food. Garden centre side has good variety

What an amazing garden centre. Lovely restaurant with a huge range of hot and cold, sweet and savoury food options. Amazing plant selection at very reasonable prices. Hard to fault this place on price and range.

Haskins was very nice. From my first visit I found the staff were very friendly and helpful. A good selection of stock to browse around. ((Very Christmasy )) We had a brew and a cake as one does Excellent. The centre was quite busy and there was still plenty of room to wander even with wheelchair was two or three people with wheelchairs. Well worth a visit if your in the area.

Nice garden centre to visit, also has lots of other things, lothes, gifts, seasonal items . Cafe too is good. This place is somewhere you could spend several hours.

Big garden centre lots on offer nice food in cafe lots of Christmas items in sale

Lovely shop to wander around, good selection of Christmas gifts and decorations. Nice area outside to look at plants & shrubs. Really good cafeteria, plenty of choice and lots of seating, not bad value for money.

Only had coffee and cheese scones.

Amazing experience in haskins...food and facilities are superb and staff are friendly...I come here twice a week 😀 such a delight to visit

Beautiful garden centre with a nice caffe and plenty of parking spaces.

Impressed with the innovation of a lot of the Christmas decorations this year, old favourites plus some interesting new outlook.

Lovely staff and food Not the cheapest of places and be prepared to queue for food

If you want something for your garden then you only need to go here. Plenty of ancillary items inside aswell, some good gifts for Christmas too, plus a Costa coffee and restaurant area.

Always worth a visit lots of interesting items to view and buy and large garden centre, great cafe and restaurant, always busy, Hobbycraft located next to Haskins, easy to find just off Junction 7, M27, then take turning towards West End They have definitely upped their game in the restaurant. We had rare roast beef on sourdough bread and to finish a Dorset apple cake wedge with a latte, which was slightly disappointing, my relation had a black Americano Visited again Sunday. If anything, it was even more impressive We went for the rare roast on sourdough bread Plus , a wedge of Toffee Apple Dorset Cake Nearly succumbed to a georgous Sunday roast Maybe something for the later in the year, nearer to the holiday season

The most expensive garden center ive ever been to! Don't get my wrong, it's lovely and the displays are great. Nice to walk around but the prices are disgusting! I saw a box of cameral malt chocolates, basically a box of Maltesers and they were 25 quid! Crazy, don't know how anyone can afford that!

My davoriarw place to shop for gofts. What ever the season haskins has something. It is a little pricy but only because they stock higher end stuff. Everything under 1 roof and they've nailed it. Far better than other garden centers I have been to. 10 ojt of 10 and always fantastic. I probably go say once every 2 or 3 months.

Good selection of christmas decorations

It was a lovely garden centre that was found by chance. With some extremely gorgeous garden plants, shrubs, and garden ornaments. The restaurant was a little gem, well organised, and with plenty of choice for everyone.