Keith Parsons
16.12.2023
Staff are always very helpful and polite. There's plenty of selection for the garden and home with deals to be had.
Paul Young
26.02.2025
Pop in most weekends. The staff are friendly very helpful and knowledgeable.
agnieszka wasilewska
26.02.2025
The best garden centre of the world
All the time they helped
Alan Quinton
25.02.2025
Angie is such a lovely lady and I only come here to get my seafood as I have done for the last five years. If Angie goes I will then buy elsewhere.
Sandra Weeks
25.02.2025
Food was lovely service was fine unfortunately attitude of one member of staff was not great when ordering and when asking where missing bit of our food and drink order was. Such a shame
Gerard Robinson
23.02.2025
Met friends there for coffee good location varied stock
Shannon R
21.02.2025
The only thing that wasn’t a complete rip off at this garden centre was the seafood shack and the new owner has got rid of it.
Ellie Boddy
21.02.2025
I came to the seafood shack today and was sad to hear they’re being kicked out. I come to the seafood shack every Friday it’s part of my weekly routine. Only reason I come to the garden centre. Very disappointing news!
James Howard
18.02.2025
I can’t say enough good things about this lovely garden centre! I have been shopping here for about 15 years and yes it maybe under new ownership but the friendly, helpful staff are all still there and are still more than happy to help you any way they can.
The coffee shop is wonderful and after a cake and coffee there is a huge selection of plants to browse along with anything you need for your garden!
The new owners have already got going on improving the store and are committed to keeping the great friendly atmosphere going while continuing to build on the success of the previous owners and take the centre forward.
One thing they have done which has been long overdue is kick out The Seafood Shack. That grubby shack looked terrible and the lady who runs it has no customer skills and is rude and unprofessional. Who wants to buy fish from the back of a car park with cars driving right past pumping fumes out of their exhaust. It’s between a very busy (and great) car wash and a scaffolding/highways yard which constantly has large trucks kicking up dust past the shack.
The garden Centre doesn't need this awful business and is better off without!!!
Diane Baker
18.02.2025
I used to love visiting this garden centre but I was upset to hear how the new owners are treating one of their tenants of an established business of 7+ years. On taking over they gave the Seafood Shack 4 weeks notice to quit. But the worst of it is they are also advertising on a local group on a social media site for small businesses to rent space from them! There were no problems between the Seafood Shack and the previous owners and the new owners have had no other communication other than the eviction notice. The Seafood Shack is popular with the local community and drew a lot of trade to the garden centre also. I am sure the garden centre trade will suffer from this decision, after all, this is not the way to treat people! As for any prospective traders, beware, if they can do it once they can do it again!
Kelle Sharp
17.02.2025
Gutted to hear they have kicked the seafood shack out, very disappointing, I used to love this garden centre but won’t be going anymore
Debbie Clutterbuck
17.02.2025
Zero stars is all this Garden Center is worth - but there isn't an option for it . It's gone downhill since the new owners have taken over. Staff are rude and don't care, product quality has gone down and as for kicking the Sea Food Shack off the property, that's the last straw.
For a small business, which takes up such a small footprint in the car park, and has built up a large customer base over the 7 year tenure, to be given notice to vacate is dispicable. I don't think they realise how valuable having the Sea Food Shack onsite is and how many customers they could potentially lose.
I shall not be visiting again and suggest you don't either.
Karen
17.02.2025
Great place all round especially the cafe. Highly recommend
sam carter
16.02.2025
So disappointed to hear that the old owners have left, they were really lovely.
However my main disappointment is that within a week of the new owners taking over that they are kicking the Seafood Shack of the property and leave the premises!, they have been there for 7 years plus and also bring trade to the garden centre. Angela the owner of the Seafood Shack has worked hard to build up her business and has many loyal customers. The people that visit The Shack are like a community and it really does bring people together. The fact he only gave her a months notice is disappointing & not a good message to support local businesses. I for one will now never visit Ansells In the future due to this situation.
Feeling very disappointed 😢
Emily Jane
06.02.2025
Lovely Garden Centre with Nice Cafe, food good, Coffee ok. Unfortunately no proper pet section. Could be missing a trick as they are dog friendly. Good Quality Natural Treats for Canines would be brilliant 😁
Kelly Harris
04.02.2025
Lovley garden centre, they had everything i needed plus a sale on! Plenty of parking. Lovley cafe inside. There's also a car wash, dog groomers, and barbers in the car park area!
Parth Padhiyar
30.01.2025
Lovely staff, helped us with all our queries, they were really enthusiastic and showed us around and helped us with feed, soil and what we can plant indoors and what will be harder
Raheel Qamar
29.01.2025
Great prompt service and good portion of servings.
mal Essling
06.04.2018
Good range of plants
Mark Yapp
22.01.2025
Garden centre itself very good and dog friendly cannot say the same about the on-site cafe it says dog friendly apart from they didn’t let me my partner and nearly 90 yo grandmother in yes we had thee well behaved dogs with us and some lady said sorry only 2 dogs aloud so we put two of the smaller dogs in the car so we could get a coffee and return with the larger dog! she then said sorry only the smaller dogs can come in and not the one larger dog ( a well trained German shepherd) so we ended up driving all the way to Theo’s cafe in cowley so I could get my grandparent a nice coffee and sandwich after all we have travelled from West Yorkshire to visit Theo’s cafe was welcoming and lovely and extremely dog friendly.
Philip Wark
22.01.2025
Second time here. On both occasions I have visited just to use the cafe area after meeting people transiting through Heathrow.
The cafe is nice and serves a vast selection of food. Overall quality I would say is reasonable to good. Cost wise a little dear for the quality on offer.
As for the garden centre itself I can’t really comment. The carpark big enough but between the car wash and loads of stuff laying around navigating it should be taken with care.
