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First the plants sales area, we were slightly disappointed with the plants on offer for two reasons. The first was price, this "nursery" is definitely at aimed at those with plenty of money to spend. For example, the only roses for sale were David Austen varieties which start from £15.99 and go up in price from there. Many garden centres nowadays start their roses from £7.99, some slightly lower and some slightly higher.
Very little else is for sale other than plants, a few expensive pots, troughs and compost. In summary therefore the plants for sale were inordinately expensive and of no better quality than your average garden centre. Give the plants area a definite miss is our advice and spend more time enjoying the lovely gardens.
The second disappointment was that the majority of the plants were not grown at Rosemoor, they were in fact bought in. Maybe our expectation of home-grown plants at a RHS nursery was misguided but chatting to several customers confirmed that all thought the majority of plants would be grown on site.
VIDEO OF THE PLANTS AREA AT ROSEMOOR GARDENS
The Garden Kitchen restaurant has two seating areas, the main one under cover and another one outside with large parasols to provide a moderate level of cover. The outside seating area is the best of the two with large wooden picnic bench type tables. The surroundings are pleasant with a half brick greenhouse and wisteria clad arches.
The interior seating consists of plastic tables and chairs in a pleasantly decorated restaurant, we liked the large and solid wooden ceiling beams.. There are very large windows to two sides which makes for a light and airy appearance all round. They serve a choice of main meals (£9 to £12), sandwiches (£4 to £5), baked potatoes (around £6) and other snack food including teas, coffees and cakes. The quality of the food we tasted was good and the prices reasonable.
The queues were short and the service prompt and pleasant. Main meals are by waiter / waitress service to your table whereas snack type meals are generally available from the main counter.
The Wisteria Tearoom is a much smaller cafe with around six tables inside and four tables outside. It gets very crowded because it simply serves snack food, drinks and cream teas at around £8.
Open | Close | |
Monday | 10.00 | 6.00 (5.00 Oct - Mar) |
Tuesday | 10.00 | 6.00 (5.00 Oct - Mar) |
Wednesday | 10.00 | 6.00 (5.00 Oct - Mar) |
Thursday | 10.00 | 6.00 (5.00 Oct - Mar) |
Friday | 10.00 | 6.00 (5.00 Oct - Mar) |
Saturday | 10.00 | 6.00 (5.00 Oct - Mar) |
Sunday | 10.00 | 6.00 (5.00 Oct - Mar) |
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