Haskins Garden Centre in Southampton - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

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.

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.

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 aye delicious, but sadly the cooked lunches aren't so good, often lukewarm. I don't bother trying those anymore.

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

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 best most fresh scones ever. Delicious and very generous.

No better place to spend a Sunday! Tea and cakes and a bit of shopping ;)

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

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

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.

We went for brunch, hubby had full English, I had eggs benedict which although I asked for before the full English, didn't get prepared until after, I then had to go back to collect it. We git to the end of the food service, after waiting 5 minutes, to order coffee and to pay (no other til was open) the lady then priceeded to put away clean glasses, clear rubbish from around the till and put away clean cups, by this time, we'd been waiting 10 minutes armed with hubby's cooked breakfast which by the time we got yo our table, was almost cold. Yes there's a microwave but, did he really come here for a reheated breakfast, no! Tge toast was nit toasted well, it was more like warm bread! My eggs benedict was "ok", so flooded in cold bernese sauce that the poached eggs were cold

Used to be great meeting point with friends and for work. For some reason they’ve stopped WIFI so there is none now. Makes it no use for work meetings therefore lost revenue in food and drink. Everywhere does WIFI, it’s 2024. Really poor decision especially with the food so expensive. Putting prices up and removing the benefits is not the recipe for more profit.

This garden centre is a delight! Well laid out, prices easy to see, efficient till service and fantastic selection of plants and garden supplies, ornaments, etc. Food service also outstanding. Well worth a visit!

Nice clean food lovely lots of plants and a good range of garden furniture

Always a great range of plants, great coffee and a fab range of food. Haskins in my "happy place"

Large garden centre with big indoor section and outdoor section, everything you need for the garden and more, nice cafe too.

Macaroni cheese, very little sauce and taste. Served with a very limp dry salad no dressing and no mayonnaise available. Run out of garlic bread so had fries which were cold and dry. Very disappointed as have some lovely meals here in the past.🥴

Excellent service helpful staff friendly gorgeous café cakes 🍰 and coffee ☕😁 ohh plants we're great too 😎

It is an amazing garden centre which has so much to offer. There's a terrific range of plants and trees which all look so healthy. Inside, you'll find lots of homeware items alongside the gardening tools and accessories. Everything feels really clean and pretty new.

Very beautiful store, cozy, everything for the garden is super. I recommend.

Friday lunch. Chips soft and soggy, meat pie had been cremated and fish had too many bones. Expensive for a poor quality lunch.

Lovely garden centre, you'll be spoilt for choice. There is also a lovely gift shop and restaurant, could spend hours here.

Well laid out. The staff were very helpful.

Good range restaurant is nice about average price for garden centres now ,always busier on a Monday

Really nice place to go , did not realise they had so many cakes to pick from ,they have all sorts to eat hot and cold and roast to pizza. Nice people serving happy to help .

Love coming for a good wander round its so relaxing and peaceful The staff are very helpful.

Bit expensive but probably inline with other garden centres.

First time visit Haskins Garden Centre with restaurant. All are so good service and many plants here I love it

So surprised to find this garden centre while visiting Southampton. So many choices of cakes in the cafe, and they have delicious hot food too. Unfortunately I didn’t have enough time to walk through the store, but I can tell there was a great garden centre I have ever been.

Restaurant was awful. Severs miserable as hell, food was cold by the time we'd go it to table due to the lack of staff at the till. Bacon was hard, black pudding was overdone, tomato wasn't cooked properly. Considering they've increased the price of the breakfast yet again its not wroth coming here any more really. The selection of plants in store was quite poor especially the Bonsai trees which were dry and dying, not worth the price shown either. Will go elsewhere as the store is not that good and has gone downhill very rapidly, the manage should be sacked really for such a poorly run store.

Wide variety of plants and related items along with a good selection of foods and other lines. A good shopping experience

Fantastic range of items, all appear to be great quality. I've found all members of staff here to be absolutely lovely. We shall be returning frequently. Thank you.

Always a good experience when visiting, restaurant/cafe clean, lots of gifts on offer, only small downside plants are quite expensive although are good quality

Great Hobby Craft and Garden Centre. Great place, you won't get out of there with an empty basket.

Great garden centre lots to choose from ,cafe is very clean and tidy .

Coffe and cake was really good, seems the pet store has now gone

Very Tasty Tuna Jacket Potato, nicely cooked. Came with a salad garnish and coleslaw would definitely gave it again My son gad a cheese and ham toad tie, they didn’t mention it had mustard in which is why we gave it a 4!

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.

Love Haskins. Plenty to choose from plant wise. Cafe good food, nice & clean, plenty of seating.

A good selection of bedding & hardy plants. House plants and everything you need for seeds and flowers.

A place where you can find everything, not too cheap

By the time we arrived, which was a bit later than the normal lunch period, there wasn’t much lunchtime food available. The price of the sandwiches was ridiculously expensive, so we opted for coffee and cake. I had a slice of Strawberry Gateau whilst my husband had something in Choux Pastry. For the amount we had to pay for these and two coffees we felt that we were being ripped off and the Gateau was not very nice at all. Not sure how long it had been on display for but, on the way home, I had terrible stomach pains.

Great food and drink options in the restaurant. Great amount of space to move. Excellent shop too. The lemon and courgette cake was a piece of heaven.

Great garden centre! Has nice stuff

Lovely garden centre and great cafe

Recycling plastic pots is an absolutely great idea.

Great selection of plants and a good clean café.

Good selection of quality plants.

Excellent restaurant if a little pricey, but size and variety of cakes is good. Garden centre full of good quality plants and gifts.

Great cafe which is well ru with plenty of staff. Great plants, though very expensive but have lots of half priced terracotta pots, albeit I think they might be 2nds!

This garden centre is more like a small shopping Mall with expensive items in each department.It's very clean and well laid out but way too pricey .My husband and I had lunch in the restaurant both of us having the carvery at £15.95 each. This price is too much for a garden centre. It was not good and most of it was cold. If you want to be ripped off then please feel free. We definitely won't be going here again. We can get an extremely good carvery in a brilliant place in Shedfield for £9.00.

Well stocked GC. Large cafe with an extensive range of fare.

Love this garden centre, there is a wide selection of goods. The restaurant is lovely and all the staff are fantastic. Dog friendly except restaurant but there is outdoor seating. Clean wel maintained toilets. A small outside play area for the small humans on the far side of the restaurant. 10/10

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, especially perennials, which tend to be quite sparse - it depends on the season. From ~September they have a very good selection of Christmas decs, lights, etc, usually from ~September. Prices are fair and similar to most other centres. Lots of parking. The Hobbycraft next door is also good.

For what I wanted, perfect this visit

Popped in for a breakfast as we were hungry whilst plant shopping. Breakfast queue is very slow moving, lack of staff serving definitely a problem here. Food is hot and I thought well presented, you then shuffle down for the till and wait for coffee/tea to be made - again very slow. THE PRICE IS RIDICULOUS! £43 for 2 breakfasts & 2 medium coffees - HOW they can justify this is beyond me. Honestly pop to any local Whetherspoons it’ll be cheaper and quicker to get served.

Great place to shop for garden items, personal items and household and kitchen items. Also lovely cafe for hot meals or casual drinks. Spend 1 hour or 8 hours it will be a profitable investment.

Good selection of items, plenty of parking just extremely expensive so take plenty of money with you

£9.95 for a jacket potato , and £10.95 for a tuna mayo baguette is ridiculous. This place has become very expensive for food , so just had a tea and coffee and left

They have reorganized everything in-store looks a lot better,a little bit pricey on most of the goods

Nice little pace to have a wonder and and coffee and cake. Great veriety of garden plants, trees, And shrubs

Sunday roast have gone down hill , used to come home full but the slice of turkey and beef i got this time was so thin you could see daylight through it , Sorry this eatery is no longer for us

Had coffee and cake. Cake is expensive per slice but good.

Always a nice place to visit, so much too look at inside and out + restaurant is quite nice too.

Love visiting Haskins, but unfortunately restaurant let's it down, rude staff, one or two I should say, but enough to ruin my visit for a coffee. I'm made to feel as if I'm an inconvenience just for being there. A reminder of customer service much needed

Perfect place to find plants and use the restaurant.

Overpriced and dirty=Bacon sandwich and a cup of tea was over £11, not evn warm and just a cheap tea bag/ Service was slow, tables not cleaned I assume from night efore, admittedly everything in the store is overprices and double what you pay in an independent shop- not going back

Lovely place to visit and potentially purchase quality plants .wife and I normally do so by incorporating a good quality cream tea at the restaurant also..On this visit however, it would seem that the restaurant is run by different folk who have not been passed down the recipe and method for making a good scone..The scone was way too hard and crumbly and with less fruit than before.whole juicy sultanas are not present..Also..and this is a Biggie...the scones are not under cover.. but left open for all to pour over with fingers if they so wish.. and to cough any mucus over.... probably won't be going anymore..

A great garden centre with a very good café too. There is a great selection of items to buy as well as plants.

Sadly the cafe lets us down each time we come, we are in Haskins weekly and like a coffee after shopping. Never enough staff and service is always slow. If you order hot food it’s warm by the time you get to eat it. No urgency from some staff. Tables are never cleared on time, often a struggle at wkds to find a clean empty one without loads of crockery and spilt food. Very unkempt and scruffy eating area. It never changes, perhaps some proper management would work. Clearly a lack of leadership. Needs to try a lot harder.

Prices in the restaurant have gone up. Quality is still very good. Large selection of garden related material, clothing and accessories plus household items. Always a good visit.

Went in yesterday late afternoon. Had a cappuccino and cake. My mum had a latte. Ridiculously overpriced for a slice of cake which was dry and quite tasteless if I'm honest. Today I have a very upset tummy which is quite unusual for me Having spoke to my husband,he had the same when he visited with his parents after New year. It would be interested to know if anyone else has experienced this recently?

Gone down hill. For what is essentialy a cafe the food is a litte overpriced.. The worst aspect is the sticky tables. Search as we might we could not find a table that was sticky. The Staff are pleasant but it's not somewhere we would recommend.