Nice garden centres near Bath

[GertrudeJekyll]

I am so excited to discover that there's a Gardening topic on mumsnet!

Have moved to Bath and not discovered any garden centres that really do it for me yet. Being in rented and not having a garden until we buy isn't helping! (if anyone has a 3 bed Georgian house in Bath they want to sell then do please PM me!)

Have been to Hillyers and Prior Park, and though they're nice enough they're not what I'm looking for. I like the kind of place where they plant stuff up and somehow it looks ten times better than you could do yourself. Or somewhere a bit specialist where you feel that it's not just all shipped in from somewhere else.

Any tips?

There is one nr Bitton which used to be good - haven't been for ages though!

Oooh, I've got s reply! Thanks, I'll look it up.

Bit of a stretch for you, but the Garden Centre at Burford is great. Poncetastic, and v.expensive, but worth a visit for poncey ideas

Poncetastic is just what I'm looking for. I mean, you can get petunias at B&Q, and advice and knowledge online. So it's ponce and cake that I go for.

Burford is definitely your place then. They have a poncey good cafe, including an uber poncey cafe just for the dcs. It is a little slice of SW London in the Cotswolds. Sorry I can't link as on phone.

Ps be prepared to want everything they sell!

Aaargh! It's 55 miles away! Loving the wicker harvesting basket from their website though.

I'd probably travel 20 miles or so to a garden centre. Apart from the time I went to Petersham, which was truly fab. Though had the horridist soup from that Skye's cafe and it was £9. Horrid.

Have you been to Whitehall at Lacock?

No I haven't. I feel more googling coming on.

You can always tie it in with a trip to Burford itself, and stop off in Cirencester for a nose too.

I'm off to Google this Whitehall place too.

That sounds like a nice day trip.

Haven't been for years as moved from the area but I used to have a soft spot for Cleeve Nursery. It's on the Bristol to Weston road.

I was going to say Whitehall as well. Lovely cafe, gorgeous Christmas decs to be had (later in the year obviously). No idea about the plants, I go for the cake.

This is great, I'm so glad I asked!

The gift and homeware section is lovely too. Oh and they sell deli stuff, organic meat etc.

It's extremely children friendly with a huge play park and a large indoor fish section that children usually live to stare in.

I tend to treat garden centres a bit like theme parks for my DD, so anything with animals is great - we both enjoy it then.