Haskins Garden Centre in Southampton

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.

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.

Great place for look around and coffee and cake.

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

Excellent cheese scone and chun mee green tea.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

There is a huge range of garden and indoor plants here for you to purchase. A bit pricey but excellent quality so worth the extra. The scones are delicious, but sadly the cooked lunches aren't so good, often lukewarm. I don't bother trying those anymore.

Amazing place to visit with parents or kids. The cake in the cafe is very tasty and wonderful environment for spending long time in.

It's very hit and miss! Extremely expensive shop. The cafe is busy, so stuff sells out fast or isn't always on offer. It's not somewhere you can visit often.

Friendly and knowledgeable staff )'brilliant scones!

Sizeable garden centre, plenty of gifts, ornaments, garden furniture, garden lighting, bird food (and gardening stuff!). Also a large cafe with hot and cold food. Not always a huge range of outdoor / house plants compared to other similarly sized garden centres - it depends on the season. From ~ late September they have a very good 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.

What a wonderful garden centre. A wide range of choice and very spacious.

Great gatden centre but you do need to sort out the disabled parking. Often have to wait at a weekend when there are lots of cars that are parked who don't have a disabled badge. Today there were 5 cars parked inappropriately.

Good food, generous portions and good service from pleasant staff. Delicious variety of cakes. Not cheap but worth a visit.

Quite expensive but good quality, the cafe is great value and child friendly.

Dogs gave the restaurant a one-star 👎, Not dog friendly at the restaurants area, most garden centre I visit are happy to have dogs in there restaurant but we had to sit in outside at Haskins, where tables and chairs were wet and had not been dry for for customer. Very disappointing. When I made the customer service staff aware, they told me to contact their head office as they don't listen to us and said lot's customer say the same. Toilets 3 star , Baby changing area 1 star in men's. The men's toilets need a better clean , and the baby changing unit was not clean. Did not wish to change my baby on it. Restaurant 3 star, Not well organised, under staff may be or not working smart ?. Not improve the same issue when I stop there. The restaurant looks good and was nice but a little over price. Shame to see one of the staff drop a cleaning cloth onto the floor and pick it up and put it on the table where she was prepared for food. Garden area 5 stars , plants , flower well stock and in good condition. Good range of plants. Parking easy. Staff friendly.

Jist bought a bbq over half price. Staff friendly

Love this garden center, although the best bit has to be the breakfasts! I come here regularly for their full English, with a choice of 5 or 8 items (2 hash browns counting as a single item!) and toast! Great quality local produce, always hot and cooked well. With a range of hot and cold drinks (Costa old on site) and so many cakes to choose from, it's always a great way to spend a morning.

Lunch with a friend today so after we went outside the garden centre Area for a Vape to be told that I was unable to Vape As far as I'm concerned I'm in the open air so No law Can stop it and Vape doesn't harm anything or anyone unlike Cigarettes smoke

Went to the restaurant at Hedge End yesterday.. we were very disappointed with our Sunday Roast… only Turkey or Beef … the beef was very undercooked … still bleeding 🩸 profusely .. and I like mine pink .. but this was red . The turkey we chose was ok … the veg wasn’t proper cooked, the gravy really greasy , and by the time we got to eat it was cold . Sorry but it’s the worst one we’ve ever eaten there. I did complain but the staff couldn’t be bothered and are obviously very unhappy on there job… didn’t even acknowledge my complaint… A very expensive dinner at £33.90 that we didn’t eat Nowhere near as good as Ferndown branch in Bournemouth

We went for lunch. I had a jacket potatoe with chilli. Very tasty. There are a variety of food from sandwiches to carvery. They also do some lovely cakes and gatues. Always busy and after you can wander around thee plants and accesories. A great place to visit.

Best garden centre to date. We have visited many. It was very nicely laid out. Car parking was easy and the best cafe one could wish. There were many choices for food and all very easy on the wallet. We visited twice on our 3 day holiday in Southampton.

We visited for the first time today and wow what a store! The store is very well presented! And the indoor and outdoor plants are very well looked after! Looking forward to visiting again! Highly recommend! 😁🌱

Having read some rather poor reviews I decided to visit again after an interval of a few months, Although it is very expensive the food I had was excellent, the staff couldn’t have been more helpful, helping carry my tray. Possibly I had a good experience as I was early on a Saturday morning. I was also able to join WiFi which a previous reviewer had not been able to do. My only criticism was that the table was sticky as previous reviewers had mentioned.

Love walking round here. The food and cakes are delicious

Can no longer use their restaurant, to often too slow to replace exhausted hot plate and carvery stock. Also serving up virtually raw beef and slightly undercooked gammon which i believe is only liked by a tiny majority of people. Should also be 3 meats in a carvery.

Just want to say a massive thank you to haskins we had our beloved mums wake there today in the swan room it was perfect for valentine nell who adored haskins and became friendly with lots of the staff over the years .. everything was perfect food and drinks and arrangements of photos we gave to sharnah many many thks for everyone's efforts today we knew you wouldn't disappoint us kind regards vals family daughters Jackie and lorraine and extended family

Tea and scones followed by plant shop, plenty of choice with some additional sales

Enjoy the store very much, unfortunately not so the restaurant, just a basic sandwich or roll is all that is required for many people at lunch time. I certainly didn't want my ham and cheese toastie smothered in mustard........I hate it! My friends bacon in her toastie was very fatty. Added to which it is very expensive!!

Has a lot of items for the garden and there is a very nice café as well. Well, worth a visit.

Some things are hideously expensive but at least I can get most of what I need. And the pot recycling at the entrance is great

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

You can borrow a Wheelchair but be prepared to fight with the trolly that can be attached to the wheelchair. Needs some maintenance to line them up agian.

As always a lovely visit to Haskins. A nice cuppa and slice of delicious cake before our mooch round.

Great garden centre plus food area

The best most fresh scones ever. Delicious and very generous.

Friendly staff, clean store and a lot to offer but... You can find way cheaper of the same product elsewhere and that's why I have rated it 3 stars.

In-store selection is enormous and The restaurant is great for people of all culinary preferences

It seems a little strange that a person would visit Haskins Garden Centre and merely comment on the delicious cake...fabulose as it is. However be assured there is so much more to see and indeed buy.The plants are healthy and they are worth the money...just.The staff in the cafe are engaging and good at their job.The checkout staff are helpful and convivial...and the customer service staff are pleasantly distant and amusingly...and mildly acidic.Enjoy the cake and enjoy the experience...I did...and I will again.

Went to the Restaurant for coffee and Cakes this afternoon.Been before but the standard of cakes has definitely gone up. Well done Haskins. Downside was though some works going on with hammering cutting / grinding so difficult to talk hence only 4 stars.

Chocolate covered yum yum and a pot of tea, heaven.

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.

Typical large garden Centre. Food ot good though. Had Lasagne today and it was very dry

Good plant selection and interior design as well

Didn't have Thompson & Morgan seeds. Plants are horrifically expensive now. Few bargains. £60 for a s cherry tree ? Don't think so.

The coffee was nice. The blueberry muffin was of a top notch quality.

Very nice place to have a look around

Very good lots to look around staff friendly and no queues at tills

It had everything that I wanted and everything was easy to find

Lots of lovely flowers and plants, the garden centre is always vibrant and has lots to catch your eye.

Bought a clematis back in march with 2year warranty costing 25 pounds, struggled to survive so decided to return in middle of June with plant and receipt. Staff could not have been more helpfull and a full refund was offered. Full marks to haskins and their staff.

Really pleasant experience looking around this Garden Centre. I had friends gor afternoon tea there today. We all had doggy bags as we couldn't eat it all. Great value. Thanks to the staff.

Lovely garden centre, great staff with a wide variety of plants on offer.

Nice place to look around, lots of pretty flowers and gifts. Had a yummy gluten free scone in the café!

Overpriced, Hyacinth Bucket would love this place, but then again, she is a working class snob. I can buy the same things in the Range or even Pound Poundland. As for the food joint, I can get steak & eggs at the Two Brothers public house a lot cheaper, it's hot when it's delivered to you at your table and the staff there are very polite and very welcoming.

Nice lunch, but seems to be getting expensive for food these days. But always a pleasant afternoon out.

Enjoyed the selection of smokers and bbq's. The lady member of staff who was located in the parasol area was brilliant. Very knowledgeable and helpful. We thought you had sold out of the particular parasol we wanted, but she checked and was able to get the big parasol from the storeroom while we finished shopping and there was another female member of staff in customer service who allowed us to store the parasol whilst we got our bigger car. Very helpful all around and great variety of garden furniture. Thank you.