Not sure if everyone can get to Bagshot in Surrey, but Longacre Garden Centre is the most amazing place to visit. Many plants are grown by them and are reasonably priced. They have a large section for bedding plants in the spring and the largest section of vegetables that I have ever seen in a Garden Centre. Well worth a trip. 2008-07-09T00:47:01+10:00 false 3848 1126 2008-07-12T22:45:43+10:00 3293 Polhill Garden Centre near Sevenoaks is good. The place is huge,so you need to allow a couple of hours for wandering - Along with the garden centre theres an aquarium, a small shopping village selling Meat, Cheese ect. Also, a cafe for when your feet cant take anymore and you need recharging with a cup of tea and some home made cake..yum 2008-07-09T02:17:25+10:00 false 3850 1126 2008-07-09T02:17:25+10:00 62 If I had to pick just one - it would be Wych Cross Garden Nurseries and Garden Centre - especially for roses - of which they say that they have the largest selection in the UK. It looks like a tiny place, but as you wander around you find that it opens up down the hill to terraces of roses... and more roses. There is a really good selection of perennials too. It's also right on the edge of the Ashdown Forest (of Pooh Bear fame). Only word of caution is that it's not open on a Sunday. As this is a bit of a trek for me I tend to buy lots at Garden Pride in Ditching - which is also a great garden centre with really great staff who are always helpful along with a huge selection of plants that always seem to do well in the garden. 2008-07-12T18:49:07+10:00 false 3955 1126 2008-07-12T18:50:30+10:00 3400 Coolings at Knockholt, Kent for me. Really good quality plants and a proper garden centre. Cafe called 'Arthur's' (after the founder) and gardens and nurseries on site. 2008-07-22T23:55:22+10:00 false 4158 1126 2008-07-22T23:55:22+10:00 3837 Although quite small 'The potted garden' has a good selection of plants. Details on theirwebsite at: http://www.thepottedgarden.co.uk/default.asp 2008-08-05T00:55:37+10:00 false 4319 1126 2008-08-05T00:55:37+10:00 210 At Wyevale Garden centre at Crews Hill (by Enfield) at this time of the year they have a great seed sale 10p-50p per pack and all still in date, we've been back the 3 last years, buying silly ammounts of seeds. This year we were a bit late the seeds had just been marked down finally to 10p, there wasn't much of a selection left in terms of vegetables, so my other half bought 'just' 94 packets of flower seeds. I also find that Van Hage's Garden Centre at Amwell (near Hertford) while a bit expensive, does do plants that of consisently good quality and show stronger growth to similar plants I've got elsewhere, and they do good sales at the end of seasons if you can time it just right. 2008-10-30T00:19:13+11:00 false 5638 1126 2008-10-30T00:19:13+11:00 4855 Perryhill Nursery, just north of Hartfield, East Sussex. It is a proper nursery, not a "garden centre". Lots of good plants: trees, shrubs, perennials. http://www.perryhillnurseries.co.uk/ Also Paradise Park, Newhaven, East Sussex. ~ For a garden centre with a wide range of plants, and just about everything else: cafe, garden furniture, garden machinery, pets & aquatic, garden buildings, books, gifts and much more. Plus to visit: gardens, museum, dinosaurs, playzone, maritime museum, railway . . . Includes some unsual plants, but not the cheapest http://www.paradisepark.co.uk/ And one to watch: Sussex Country Gardener (formerly Sussex Country Gardens), Mark Cross, East Sussex. Interesting range of plants and VERY helpful staff and pleasant environment. In the process of considerable expansion. http://www.sussexcountrygardener.co.uk/ Revamping too is Vanstone Park, Codicote, North Herts (just north of Welwyn Garden City). Very impressed with the quality of the plants. 2008-10-30T07:43:45+11:00 false 5644 1126 2008-10-30T07:59:05+11:00 4227