Trowell Garden Centre

Have mixed views of this place. Having visited from a child, I have fond memories. Recently, my views are less favourable. It has become increasingly difficult to navigate around the centre and almost felt like a storage area when we went today with boxes piled up. This also made the indoor area feel highly claustrophobic.We had decided to pay a visit to the cafe and being vegan it was difficult. Yes, they have nice vegan mains on the menu, but if you don't want spice, then there's nothing for you. We were told we had to complete an allergy form" because here vegan is classed as an allergy in order to order chips as these were normally cooked in 'meat fat'. There were no light bite vegan options. We would have loved to have had soup

Lovely garden centre and Still independently owned, it is not part of the British garden centre chain.Beautiful displays all year round to celebrate the changing seasons, excellent display of sheds and garden huts. Lots of differnt fish and all things fishy to buy. Only let down is the quality of food in the cafe. Been twice in a week and first I got Luke warm hot chocolate which wasn't to great and second time I got a latte that wasn't even hot enough to melt the sugar. Miss heard my order so got given a plate of luke warm toast instead of poached egg on toast with 3 eggs on brown please. So I'm confused as to how she translated that into 2 slices of white toast!!?The floor staff which are mainly teenagers were all very kind and polite and every table they cleaned and left spotless they all deserve huge praise for their role in the cafe as it looked fresh and clean to sit down.

Can't wait to go back when they have all the Christmas items displayed !! I bought two plants for the garden,both in great shape.

Nice garden center to pop into when passing, decent coffee. The store was a little busy on a weekend though and some of the isles get rather cramped. Good Christmas and Autumn displays though.

Lovely lovely Christmas Exhibition. Observed both Children and Adults enjoying this area. Excellent layout of so many items to suit so many tastes. Very large Christmas / festive department.Not just plants, garden items etc, there’s clothes, accessories, jewellery, so many gifts and miscellaneous items. Big Carpark. Large eating area with good choices…Looking forward to returning.

Really great selection of plants and Christmas items, we went for some lemax village ornaments and to have a look around.Dog friendly inside and staff was helpful.

Cafe and outside area amazing. Was setting up new Christmas stock. But other areas were old and dated. Picked up an item nesr the card display and had a thick layer of dust on. Staff all really friendly.

Good choice of outdoor plants and good Christmas displays when we visited today. What lets it down is always the cafe, over 20 mins in queue just to place the order and 50 mins wait for food (2 people). I think it might have gone on longer if I hadn't asked someone to check with the kitchen. One meal was only quiche and salad! They could definately look at ways to improve their system. If you don't have loads of spare time to spend waiting then suggest you skip the cafe altogether.

I went, especially to see the Christmas displays which are outstanding..and even better that you can purchase the lil individual displays too...but they are not cheap n cheerful ..as you would expect..you get what you pay for.