American Couple Reacts: SHOCKED & AMAZED Seeing A UK Garden Centre For The FIRST TIME! 

OMG!! This is the REACTION OF ALL REACTIONS from us! This place SHOCKED, MESMERIZED, SURPRISED, AWED AND AMAZED us! The sheer size of it alone was jaw-dropping! As you would say, we were GOBSMACKED! We LOST our MINDS in this episode! We were jealous, angry and excited all in one! Everything you could ever need or want is at this place! We now have a NEW #1 UK Destination on our list and this is it! We should say that we now know this specific Garden Centre is not like all UK Garden Centres. But it's unlike ANY Garden Centres we have in America! The United Kingdom certainly Beats America on this! And we are super envious! Join us on this episode to watch our heads explode at every turn of this tour of Bents Garden Centre located in Warrington, England. This is EPIC! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support

My son who has Down’s syndrome is recovering from an operation and his first request when home was “to go to the garden centre and see the fish and get a piece of cake”. We do love our garden centre and of course I took him there. Love to you both from the UK ❤️

If you like this, wait until you see the Chelsea Flower Show….

Hi Natasha & Debbie We are leaving you a comment to give you both a big thank you for watching and reviewing our Bents Garden Centre video on your channel. Although uploaded on our former RU-vid channel. It was still a delight to see your reactions. Gary Kershaw told us you had reviewed our vlog, and we were overjoyed. Your reactions to the garden centre were hilarious we were all laughing along with you. To blow your mind even more we never filmed in the pet store or the outdoor clothing outlet. So actually the garden centre is even bigger than what you have already seen. Once again a big thank you for watching and reviewing. You now have three new fans and subscribers. Keep an eye on our new RU-vid channel. Where we will be uploading vlogs on other days out in the UK and perhaps even more garden centres 😀 Stay safe and well.

I think our love of garden centres stems from when shops could not open on a Sunday, but Graden Centres could, so they started diversifying. A trip to the Garden Centre is a nice Sunday day out!

We live in Cheshire and we go to Bents quite often. You really need to see it at Christmas - they set up a number of room layouts and include animatronics, such as Santa playing the piano, polar bears, penguins, and so on and it changes each year. Absolutely fantastic, and it's a huge draw. Oh, and the Pet Cafe - they cordon off a part of the main restaurant for people with dogs, so the owners can sit and eat too whilst staying with their pets. The thing about Bents is it's top notch - everything is a little bit more expensive than elsewhere, but it's all top quality, both plants (larger specimens can often come with a two year guarantee, by the way), and food produce. I'd say it's one of the biggest, but by no means the only one. There's another in Cheshire called Bridgemere and it has exactly the same format, but it also has award-winning gardens that you pay a small fee to go round. The gardens alone can take you at least an hour to walk around. Such garden centres, with the miniature golf and concessions stores like Lakeland, Hobbycraft and Edinburgh Woollen MIlls, shoe shops, etc are becoming more the norm here, but I think Bents is the biggest one I've been to. It's regarded as a full day out, and we love it!🤗

I am American and traveling to the UK is an “eyeopener”. I have seen these garden centers and they are amazing. The food is top rate along with the clothing. And yes, the plants are great. American open your eyes!

This is my local garden centre, it started as one man in a shed by the road, selling roses. now its like a town in itself.

We Brits love our garden centres. I’ve been known to drive for miles to visit a really good one. At Christmas, they are like Santa’s grotto! 😊

That is definitely a BIG garden centre, but even those on a smaller site will present a similar mix of plants and goods and services, including indoor and outdoor fish keeping supplies. Yes, they have developed as destinations that people love to visit. Some will rent shop spaces to local businesses, and others will have the garden part of business as a kind of after-thought. I'm thinking of Trago Mills in the South West of England, and the national chain of B&M discount stores. Garden centres had their origins from garden nurseries being allowed to trade from 10am-4pm on Sundays, and they just evolved from that. Also the totally ridiculous cost of parking in town centres drove customers to these out of town places, and not having to pay town centre rents and rates helped make the large garden centre business model viable. If you visit holiday destinations in the UK you'll find that many farm shops have morphed into sell-everything-local stores under a large roof. A good example of this if you ever visit Devon and Cornwall is Strawberry Fields which started as a fruit picking place, then a farm shop, and now with a nice restaurant, coffee bar and food hall. I'm not sure how different generations take to these places or if the bubble will burst, but you see families as well as elderly people in chairs and electric scooters enjoying a day out because access is level. At Christmas probably every little kid will want to be taken to a big garden centre to see Santa's grotto and all the colourful lights. The biggest 'garden centre' of all is probably the Eden Project in Cornwall which, at it's outset looked like a colony base under domes on a different planet.

I'm an Aussie and I want that garden centre too...

Being a German, living in the UK for decades now and watching you Ladies regularly. I'm very fond of this channel. You are utterly charming. Very enjoyable 😊👍

I work in a garden centre and yes it's a great to be surrounded by the seasonal planting everyday. Most customers come to meet with friends, have a coffee, a cake, and a mooch.

This might help you understand why we call the outside space around our house a garden when you call it a yard. We're obsessed with gardening and see it very much as an extension of our home. When I grew up in the 80s, we'd travel to the local garden centre one Sunday every month and it was very much an afternoon out, not just a place to shop. They were definitely simpler back then, but I distinctly remember you could by fish, pets, sheds, summer houses and more and then go and chill in the cafe. Mum & Dad would pick up a few plants and we would try to get the parrots to say rude words. Happy days.

Hi guys, love this video. Im British and i definitely take this for granted that most garden centres here have lots of other bits as well as plants. Lovely to see your comments and reactions.

I love UK and Irish garden centres, they are fantastic.

In the uk,most of our garden centres are like this.We have homeware,sheds,conservatories,food,clothes,plants,garden tools,handbags,candles,inside and outside accessories,toys and a lot have play areas for children.Also we have craft areas with yarn,sewing and art accessories.We have great garden centres!😊

I'm surprised you are both surprised. We have dozens of these places in the UK.... Some are large places, like this one, others are more local to towns or villages, and may be smaller. The garden centre closest to me, specialises in water gardens, with ponds, rockeries etc. They even sell exotic fish to put in your pond..... The English are sometimes referred to as a nation of gardeners. Here on UK TV, we have a number of specialist gardening programmes offering advice, tips etc, some of which have been broadcast for 40+ years. Some of the presenters of these TV gardening and garden make-over shows are now household names here. Some UK DIY (Do It Yourself home repair etc) chains have a garden section, selling plants, gardening tools etc. Some larger garden centres also have a cafe area..... Some of the garden centres in the UK have large outside areas, with trees, plants, shrubs etc, all on display in a natural setting. Some often sell sheds and garden landscaping supplies......

After retirement a great many Brits go to garden centres for days out a couple of times a week. In the UK we have hundreds of them.....plenty of huge ones though most are smaller than Bents. Garden centres are a godsend for retired people. They are warm and dry all through our grey, wet winters, and are a great place to meet friends for lunch or afternoon tea, with plenty to look at as well. If you live in a British town, you can rely on having at least half a dozen garden centres within a 20 minute drive. In April, Brits go completely mad and buy dozens and dozens of plants. It's a kind of national celebration of Spring! 😍🇬🇧🤩😍🇬🇧

Our local Garden Centre has separate small stores, a pet shop, butchers, bookshop, fish, and a mobility/disabled store, plus the rest, smaller than Bents but still very similar. Another one about 30 minutes away is larger and again is similar. It also has an Owl and Bird of Prey centre inside, owned by a friends son. They kindly took me there to fly some Owls and other birds of Prey as a birthday surprise.

A garden centre with plants only is a nursery 👍

Not just older people, my daughter has loved gardens centre since she was about 3 years old. It’s still one of her favourite days out at 23 years old 😍😁

Garden Centres in the UK are a day out. It's possible to spend 3hrs plus shopping or not. The restaurants are amazing with great food and coffee. The clothing range is so upmarket. The plants are also amazing. Christmas is a special time. Usually Reindeer and Santa.

In the UK there are over 30 million people who are gardening fanatics. They say it's about 42% of the population but they don't take into account those who have allotments or gardens on a balcony but they are gardeners. My love of gardening started at the knee of my grandfather who was a miner he spend all day every day down in the bowels of the earth. So he combined two of his greatest loves. Gardening and model trains. He had already built in his attic a to die for trainsets from the Flying Scotsman to the Orient Express which also had a huge diorama interspaced it was beautiful, When he run out of space he started combining his garden into a real life diorama. He belonged to a group of gardeners that grew the huge veg and I was blown away. My garden is in 2 acres of land and split into sections. It's taken my husband and I thirty years to get it like it is. I have orchards and an area that is just wildflowers. A rose garden, I also grow about 70% of what I eat. I also live very close to Sandringham and they have many gardening themed weekends I mean the gardens of Sandringham are simply stunning. They sell seeds of nearly everything they grow. English people especially are so proud of their gardens that many many villages have open gardens. They charge a small fee and the money is usually raised for a charity they have picked that year. I live with in 5 to 10 miles from 7 different garden centres. One specialises in just Irises another specialises in African Violets. We also have a Japanese garden place and I truly truly love that place what he can grow is truly astonishing. He he has weekend and teaches you how to care for any plants you wish to purchase. My husband and 3rd son are Bonsai addicts between them they have over 250 of them and in the village that I live in we hold Orchid weekends. To put into perspective Brits spent £110 billion on home improvements during the coronavirus pandemic, standing at £2,000 per person for home and garden renovations and with that discovered that they not only liked gardening they loved it. The funny thing with me though is my gardens are my pride and joy but if I bring a house plant into my home it dies. I have yet to keep one alive except for my carnivorous and I have many of those. Helps with the fly problems. Also very impulsive viewing to see them perform.

When you two look at each other… the love in your eyes is beautiful. I love you two. 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸

I live just outside London there is a road full of garden centres, they are all different. Another big Garden Centre near us called Van Hagues had a mini zoo as well and a little train to take a ride on.

Places like this were a godsend when my mum was in a wheelchair, it didn't matter if it was raining we could stay insrde and looke at the different departments, have a coffe and a meal. Look in the greenhouses and just have a grat day out.

The biggest one is Bridgemere Garden Centre,there are lots of these types of centres all over the UK

Look up Blooms of Bressingham Norfolk they are Nurserymen for other garden centers suppliying them thr plants, but the massive site has 3 narrow gauge Railways full size locos, Vintage & Vetran Fire Engines & a massive colection of Steam Road & Agricultural Traction Engines & a Steam "Galloper" Fairground Roundabout!! What more could you want?? & the narrow railways run through the fields where the seed plants are growing!!

My local garden centre also has an aquatics shop where you can buy tropical and cold water fish, fish tanks, ponds. They sell hot tubs and full on trees. They too have a butchers, food court, various independent retailers and all the other sections shown in this video

Your reactions were pure joy. Thank you for cheering me up on this chilly, rainy, Winters day.

I love the British “understatement” by the couple who made the original video!!

In the late twentieth century, only garden centres and small stores selling perishables were the only places allowed to open on a sunday, even chip shops were closed. So garden centres became a to do on a sunday, and their roles and what they sold got a little stretched with the result that you see in the video. Even the idea of it being an out door activity store is a little stretched. Most of the displays would be concessions, so Lakeland is a kitchenware shop with it's own on line presence but shops usually in garden centres. A lot of the diversification is driven by the need to cover the autumn and winter when a garden centre that only sold plants would do zero business. I'm surprised it doesn't have an area selling tropical fish, cold water fish and other small pets to attract the kids.

Bonjour From France I love your channel and each exciting instalment. WE have garden centres in France, My local Garden Centre sells clothes . plants and garden tools and small animals like Rabbits and Chickens and Hen and Fish even singing birds. They also have food and wine. Very similar to ones in the UK . Jean-Marc , France Merci Natasha and Debbie

We have a very large Garden Centre nearby and Christmas is a must visit. They sell beautiful, unusual decorations, tableware, Christmas trees, etc. We also have a plant advisor who can help you find the right plant. They also sell garden fencing and furniture, clothes, aquarium stuff, artisan food, butcher, brand concession stores and acres of plants, trees, etc as well as pots for your plants. Birthday cards too! All this is normal in Britain. Lakeland is a wonderful shop that sells kitchen wate, baking stuff, laundry equipment, coffee machines, etc. I always visit them in the Garden Centre. It is a good day out.

This is something I'd never really thought about growing up, but it's a valid point - British garden centres are weirdly expansive. And they're entirely right - the place I used to be most excited to go to as a kid at Christmas was the local Garden Centre - they decorated all of the plants, the interior section had lights and model trains with a christmas themed track, it was amazing. But yes, British garden centres go far beyond the scope of gardening - they often include anything and everything you could possibly need to enjoy your garden/summer from camping gear to hobby craft stuff to small pets. It was the go to place as a kid for seeing the fish, getting high quality warm/waterproof clothes at decent prices, looking at camping equipment (you could usually get that cheaper elsewhere) and having a really nice lunch or slice of cake, then heading to the little craft shop to look at all the beads and other supplies. It was also the kind of place that was strangely unifying - EVERYONE considered it to be a pleasant trip. You could ask your Nan to take you as a kid, or if your parents were watching you and a school friend for a while after school (while their parents were stuck at work, for example) you could take them to get some tasks ticked off of your list while getting the kids fed and having them actually excited to go. I think the fact that they're often in the countryside areas outside of towns allowing them more space than usual, combined with the fact that people looking for things to garden with will inevitably also want somewhere to sit to look at their garden when they're done, something comfortable and durable to wear while gardening, decor, things to do in the garden, maybe even a nice book to read etc and that when you're spending that long shopping you naturally want a place to get a drink and a bite to eat, allowed these places to organically evolve into stocking the entire range of niche items under the category 'outdoors' that you usually have to go to specialised shops for and, by pure coincidence, became a destination for a nice afternoon out at the same time. It's less common, but I've been to garden centres that set up 'biomes' - they climate control the 'greenhouse' sections as well as regulate the humidity and have small areas which grow more temperate or tropical plants and give you 30 seconds of feeling like you're in a rainforest as you walk through. To answer the question "Are they all like this?" - Yes and No? They're mostly all as expansive in what they cover, and have been since I was a kid in the nineties being taken there at the weekend, but this is definitely a more upmarket one which has more space devoted to the food section in particular than most (generally they have a nice cafe and something resembling a small farmers market of local produce they stock). This particular example has taken the general model used by a British garden centre and said "Let's do that, but bigger, better and fancier". Most garden centres, for example, do not have eight hundred parking spaces. But they ARE all crammed with everything you could possibly put in a garden.

UK garden centres are generally a really great day out, with the variety we have and many with plants, indoor shopping and cafes and restaurants as you saw, but even my jaw dropped at the size of that one! Like they say in the video, they are often worth returning to at Christmas for the wonderful displays and Christmas gifts / decorations etc

I love visiting the garden centres💚🌿. My favourite one has an art gallery and expert craftspeople showcasing their exquisite work. Of course the many local food outlets are great amongst the gorgeous scenery and plants 💚

It's very typical of a British Garden Centre, even the smaller ones have an indoor section that sell things like that. This is one of the bigger shops, a super store that sell a larger variety of goods. Most of them have some sort of cafe where you get refreshments and food. Most sell pond equipment, pond fish and aquatic plants, also tropical fish, aquariums and plants. Some have small pet animals and birds plus all the gear needed for them. All of them will have garden plants, compost, pots and fruit trees, the bigger ones will sell hot tubs, greenhouses, sheds, sculptures, ornaments, fencing and garden machinery, even small tractors. Some sell camping equipment as well as garden furniture.

I am a Brit who is now living in Cyprus and I miss SO much about the UK, so to watch your reaction videos is like putting on a warm, cozy blanket and feeling I'm home!! Thank you! Another thing -------- I am completely, totally, utterly IN LOVE 💕 with your meditating poodle on your bookshelf. I love ALL things DOG, and he is so gorgeous. Please tell, where did he come from and have you had him a long time??

This was brilliant, you two are great. I went there many years ago, it's delightful to see how, one - it's still going, and two - how much its grown! What a place!

Love how you have a green thumb, here in the UK we'd say we have 'green fingers' if we're good with plants.

I can vouch that Bents is HUGE and was so pleased to see my town on the board for local produce sold there. The Christmas displays are something and a lot of people buy in the sales as it can be expensive.

You picked the best one, in my opinion, for your first UK garden centre reaction

God, I love you two. It made me laugh out loud watching your faces with this place. We English, well, we just love to garden!!!

When she said, "My Mom would have loved that" about the cottage ornament with the water wheel and ducks 🥺❤

There are lots of garden centres like this all over the country.

In her "twilight years" there was nothing my late mother enjoyed more than a day out at a Garden Centre. A wander around the gardens, plants, displays and other offerings and attractions, some gentle shopping, somewhere to get a nice lunch and afternoon tea, all under one roof. Bliss.

Most garden centres have outdoor furnishings, decorations, and clothing as well as plants, different composts, and outdoor-related tools. Pet-related goods are common together with things to attract wildlife into the garden. Some household goods and food items are sometimes found. Quite a lot have cafes.

As @LaraGemini mentioned, until 1994, a lot of stores weren't allowed to open on Sunday, but Garden Centres were. They started with garden furniture, garden toys, outdoor clothing, and so on, things that were at least tangentially linked. But over time, they've become like mini-malls as you see here, with a lot of things with no real connection to gardens. This one is at the larger end, but certainly not unprecedented. There are a couple near me that have coach tours running to them. You should also check out Trago Mills, which is kind of a mix between a big box or outlet store and a garden centre but has rides for kids including a working steam railway, and a petting zoo with free-ranging peacocks!

I'm not a gardener but I loved this video because of your reactions. I just happened to pause it when you first saw the plants and 'gobsmacked' perfectly describes the look on both your faces. Your obvious joy and wonder is infectious. Thank you.

I think the concept of gardening is very British. Theres lots of TV shows centred around gardening. The most famous is probably Gardeners World, which has been on since the 60s. Some others are Ground Force and Garden Rescue, which they do up someones garden for them and give helpful tips and ideas

A lot of the food items you will probably find are owned by either local firms or small firms in the UK.

I love your channel and imagine my excitement when you had Bents on your show, I live right next to Bents and my hubby and me go for scones and tea all the time xx ❤

loved watching this, i haven't been to a british garden centre for years and they are lovely. Used to take my mum to our local one for lunch and a day out. Next you must find a video of a the garden centre at Christmas... they blow my mind EVERY time!

Part of the reason for the expansion and diversification of garden centres dates back to the days before the relaxation of Sunday trading laws. Up to the early 80s shops were, with a few exceptions, prohibited from trading on Sunday. The exceptions were generally logical: newsagents, petrol (or 'gas') stations... and nurseries. So long as they were 'predominantly' selling garden products they could open on Sundays. As the centres were, for obvious reasons, out of town, it made sense to add a café. Then maybe some gardening clothes (boots, waterproofs etc), DIY tools, garden furniture... Since you're selling food in the café the obvious next step is to have a range of local produce to take away. Then throw in some cookware, maybe toys to keep the kids entertained and suddenly garden centres morph into these retail destinations. Not all garden centres are as big as the one seen here but there is a tremendous variation; one centre I used to visit with my mother sold poultry--as in live hens, geese and ducks rather than meat in the chiller! They also sold tropical fish and small pets.

I'm so happy you love our garden centres😊 They're such an integral part of life over here. Since I was a little kid we would go to the garden centre at least once a month and just mooch around. It's something I carried on with my kids. It's lovely, relaxing family time and holds a lot of nostalgia for me❤

Can I suggest you take a look at the annual flower festival and parade of decorated floats that take place in a small town called Spalding. It’s an area that is responsible for raising and growing most of the flower bulbs that are sold as British grown bulbs. The fields surrounding the town are filled with the bulbs that are being grown for sale plus the laboratories where they are trying to develop new varieties of flowers for colours and form(ie multiple heads). All of these nurseries are trying to find plants that they can take out a patent on and the most sought after single colour is a pure black bloom.

As someone in the UK who used to be taken to a garden centre fairly regularly, nothing surprised me about the place in terms of _type_ of things on offer, but the _size_ of it did. (actual plants are typically in a nursery section; garden furniture and decorations typically dominate the main garden section; there's also usually a large variety of garden rocks and gravels available based on the ones I'm used to). But basically, take what you saw in the video, divide it by... 8? Maybe 20? And that's more in line with what they usually are. Especially for the indoor area of it. ...OK. Slight correction. The mini-golf surprised me. But, yeah, in his later years of life my dad was still going to (well, eventually being taken to) the garden centre just to visit the tea shop and have a bit of a couple of hours out when he wasn't up for being taken somewhere for the day. Even the smaller ones tend to be nice places to visit. Just... For an hour, maybe two, rather than on the scale of that one.

Almost every time we go visit our mum we go to a garden centre. Every area has multiple different garden centres. From where my mum lives there are 4 within a 30 minute drive. Most are not quite this big, but they usually have retail concessions (shops within shops), like the one in the video. They all have at least a cafe, some have a full restaurant. Many do senior citizens lunch or dinner specials. Most have loyalty programs, offering discounts and free beverages. Some have play areas for the kids, but I’ve never seen crazy golf at a garden centre before. I only know of one locally that has a butchers within it. Garden centres are a big thing, not just with older folks. Our 31 year old daughter often takes our grandson to local gardens centres.

Greetings from Stoke-On-Trent the home of pottery. I didn't know about this garden centre but after looking it up on Google its actually not far from me so I am going to pay the this place a visit when the weather gets a bit better as were coming to the end of winter here in the UK. Thanks Ladies for this and keep up the good work.

We love our garden centres here in the UK 😊

So surprised you don't have any like this the majority of garden centres in the uk are like this, Really enjoy your videos guys and respect to our cousins across the pond, from Somerset 😊

Hello from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It's my first time watching you guys. Love it!! Me and my kids love a jaunt to a garden centre too.

It's not all old people, we're 20 and have an allotment and an obsession with garden centers :D don't get me wrong we still get messy at the weekend ;) but love us a garden center haha.

This place is about 25 minutes from my home and I have spent many a happy hour or six just wandering around it. I hope this couple do one at Christmas cos the place is just magical. We took our two year old granddaughter and the joy and excitement on her face was absolutely heartstoppingly brilliant to see. The biggest bonus is that the plants are really good too I hope you get over here as I would love to take you there Nick

Wowzer, I live in the South of the UK and yes we have both small and large garden centers/plant nurseries near by which have all the elements of this shopping experience but the sheer size of this place is gobsmacking 😮 (and I should say the mini golf is a new one on me⛳ 😁 I'm seriously thinking of booking an airbnb just to visit! Best of all I love that this is still owned and run by the founding family! 👏👏👏

Garden centres are very famous in UK for Granny sitting. An expression for taking your elderly parents out during the midweek for a meal. Plus, a wander around if. they're up to it. and not too frail.

We have an awesome garden centre like this about 5 minutes away from where I live and now they are building another one literally next door! My husband hates any form of shopping but never says no to a garden centre- we Brits really love our gardens and our garden centres. Love to you both Xx

I'm in UK .... this is a normal type of garden centre ... its a place to go for a walk around and have tea and cake with friends. The gardening area is usually outside and includes fencing and slabs as well as furniture. They have workshops and events and if enough room outside will have rides for kids Christmas is crazy fun. We have nurseries but they are usually just plants and quite small so we go for cheap plants to nurseries and they often need TLC Most nurseries supply councils and cater for the road way decorations etc but the public can go and buy the leftovers very cheaply. Lakeland is a popular kitchen store in UK and sells great stuff. basically a garden centre sells quality goods and its great fun and educational . they'll havbe people explaining things like insect hotels and how to create a floral decoration for your table centre etc. Very popular butchers and groceries are from local farms and there are imports from european delis.

Several years ago we had friends from texas visiting just before Xmas. The Bent family were very generous and welcoming. Our friend was an interior decorator and did decorating for Xmas and other holidays. So we were given a guide to show us around and he was allowed to take photograph of the decorated trees even though there were signs everywhere saying no photography. Our friends were as blown away as you were. The garden centre has grown so much larger since then.

Bents at Christmas is out of this world! You need a whole day there, and you still won't everything. The restaurant is also amazing, as is the food hall.

Oh what a great idea for a video! I recognise that place immediately! 😃, its 10 minutes from my house 😅. Bents is HUGE now, the original Bents used to be barely the size of a 7/11 in the early days. It's been part of the community for over 80 years now. I think it was one of the countries first garden centres too. The area it is in has lots of neighbouring farmland , made of small villages like Croft which are great for pub grub! Kenyon Hall Farm is nearby too which sells local produce and offers fruit and veg picking.

I've watched the Chip Butty reaction video and now this as well so now I have no option but to subscribe! You ladies are so much fun!

I've got a couple of big Garden Centers, a couple of medium-sized ones and several smaller ones within a 15/20 minute drive from where I live. They're a great day out and we always come back broke. 😂😂😂

Not all garden centres are this big. We have a couple of quite big ones close to us but not to this scale. Most tend to sell plants and tools, home and garden decor, garden furniture, garden buildings, giftware, clothing, some food and an aquatics centre and pets section. (for some reason they didn’t show these). They all have restaurants or cafes. A lot of people go to the garden centre for lunch and once inside you can’t help but be tempted by everything else. They all have big a Christmas section every year with all things sparkly.

This is my local garden centre. I met Mr Bents 30 yrs ago who lived next door to his shop, and showed me around his own garden. The garden centre is big, but I spend only an hour amongst the plants, and never leave without buying something. I go every year throughout spring and summer. This is quite an informative video as you discovered, although I have never taken the time to look around the whole place myself I might just do that one day.

I love how you get so excited by it.

I used to visit Bents regularly - for plants, gifts, clothes, food etc and going to see the Christmas displays was always a highlight. The restaurant is exceptional and the cakes / desserts are amazing. However, I haven’t been for about 10yrs and it’s expanded ++++ It was always big, but wow! I need to go again 😂 Our local garden centre stocks a similar variety of everything, it’s just smaller. But we also have several local small g/centres that stock plants, trees and related gardening things only. So Bents isn’t typical of all UK g/centres.

We love our gardens centres in the UK. Some also have kids clubs where kids have classes on plants, nature and caring for the environment.

I have an assistance dog, first shop we started training in was the garden centre. Dogs are allowed in most of it (not the food hall or restaurant), and it was at a time where there were lots of covid restrictions so it was only pet supplies and food hall and stuff needed for gardening (we grew some vegetables with my daughter during lockdown)open so was a quiet place to start training. We also found out the staff tend to keep treats behind the counter for dogs there. My daughter loves going there in warmer months as they have koi and you can get pellets to feed them, and she just likes looking at the fish in general. It's not as big as the place in the video but it does have food hall, restaurant, garden tools and other things needed for plants, seeds, clothes, toys, books, fish(and stuff needed to keep them), pet stuff, plants, sheds, playhouses, garden furniture, garden ornaments (another part my daughter loves and she has a small collection to the side of our front door).

I remember many years ago my friend Annie took me to this Garden Centre and it was run by this gentleman his wife and young children. I had my shopping list two shrubs a Daphne and a Philadelphus plus some plant food. Annie didn’t say much as she wanted me to be surprised! I got one small trolley and went inside. I was overwhelmed. It was only 7:30 am and the restaurant opened at 8. By the time we got to the restaurant for 8am our one small trolley was full! We hadn’t been to the plant section yet! We had a full English Breakfast with a pot of tea. We decided we needed another much later trolley. We then shopped some more and got our plants however by then it was 13:30 so we then stopped for lunch. After lunch we checked out some of the clothing franchises the butchers. I remember spending over £200 I was mortified, so there is a big downside to these Garden Centre you spend way too much and buy too much. It’s still fun though lol.

Always have a coffee when pop to garden centre x

When I lived in England I used to go to two beautiful garden centres. One I loved the restaurant there. The plants were beautiful in each. That’s all I’m interested in. The plants in the UK are amazing. One had peacocks running around. Seeing them flying is amazing. You should visit the Chelsea Flower Show in the summer in London.

I am from the uk and that place is enormous

Yes, I love how our garden centres sell food and drink from local suppliers. I live on the East Sussex coast and our garden centre has fresh meat, fruit and vegetables from local farms. Only yesterday I went to our garden centre and stocked up on wonderful jams and marmalades made at a fruit farm a few miles away. There is a huge variety of locally sourced food and drink. The restaurant is very popular too. The garden centre in your video is a particularly large one, but garden centres that sell a similar variety of goods are extremely common in the UK. I think the thing that stands out about our garden centres is the high quality of all the things sold there. That's what makes them lovely places to visit and buy from. By the way, there are also some wonderful foods and confectionery from all over the world (like that root beer) that you won't find in a normal supermarket but you will find in a garden centre because it is a high quality product so cost a little more than the mass-produced and well-known brands.

This is mahoosive for UK garden centres. I've been in big ones and small ones but this tops them all. Wow. Now I want to visit it. I think its an all day long visit.

The only gargen center near me that's not chancged since I was a kid in the 80's is Riggs in Todmorden. it STILL has large rooms filled with indoor and outdoor plants. it's always had garden furnitcher and outdoor garden stuff like anything made of storn or outdoor pots, and 2 rooms dedicated to plant care. it also used to have a coffee machine, something unheard of in the 80's. now it also has a little pet care center, fish, a huge room of stuff and plastic plants.. didnt have any clothes in it when I went last year :P

My local garden centre has a pet section, out door and indoor furniture, garden statues, fountains, indoor decor, a restaurant, cafe, food hall, books, stationery, clothes, kitchen stuff, kids toys and nursery. Oh and the plants of course. A great place.

It looks standard for a Garden Center. In the village I live in (small town to you), we have all the things mentioned in the video. It has different departments covering everything for your home (including interior design) and garden. Many have pet shops, aquarium and garden building sales as well. We have 5 garden centers in a 6 mile radius..

There are quite a few large garden centres and villages in UK which are designed to be a full family day out and shopping experience - they are large due usually to a number of independent businesses from around the country owning plots within - Lakeland etc….they are usually on outskirts of town in rural areas and have parking , buses , taxi stands for access also -

I live practically next door to Bents, it started off as a shed you need to see the Christmas displays. People travel to visit Bents

As someone who lives quite rural, garden centres have regularly been the place for me and my friends to meet up for a coffee and a wander even in our 20s. There is something for everyone of all ages!

I think British garden centres are a great example of how people in this country manage to stay in business by diversifying. They're really more like emporiums these days; an Alladin's Cave of delights. It's a bit like the mysterious 'Middle of Lidl' (if you haven't, check it out) - where you go in for a tin of peas, and come out with a 4-man tent! PS A lot of British garden centres have their own nurseries. Nurseries are where the plants are grown; some nurseries sell direct to customers, others supply those garden centres which might not have their own nursery. I hope this clarifies things a bit :) Thanks for your videos, I love to see Britain throught the eyes of others and your reactions are as interesting and educational as they are entertaining (without being disrespectful or judgemental). Keep up the good work! x

Oh, its nice at Christmas too, lots of Christmas decorations/trees for sale and they have nice Christmas displays dotted about and a Father Christmas. Probably a few videos on here of it. It was a regular occasion for me as a kid to visit Bents at Christmas and see Father Christmas. They do a Christmas tea party with Father Christmas for kids now too

We were doing a day trip on the island of Tobago. While being driven to the other side of the island for a snorkelling trip our driver pointed out places of interest. We were stopped at a junction and to one side was the entrance to a large garden centre. A comment was made on the minibus and our driver laughingly commented how they used to include a trip to the garden centre for the Brits. “You lot really love a garden centre. Trying to get you all out and back on to the bus was like herding cats!”. They had to stop after always being late leaving 😂

Those green shirts look lovely on Both of You! WOW 🤩

These garden centres are all over the country..we have some fab ones in the north east ..spend the day in them .especially Christmas time ..our Arcadia one near Stokesley Yorkshire…was spectacular…xxx

This looks like a very nice hypermarket with some plants attached outside. We have a garden centre near here which admittedly doesnt have anything like the indoor shopping here but, absolutely dwarfs this place for space outside devoted to plants only. It is absolutely enormous, it must take 25 minutes walk to get from the front entrance to the furthest reaches of the outside plant sale area. Checking out can take anything up to 45 minutes because of the queues and amount that people buy. Its practically American in scale.

You girls are SO sweet! I love your enthusiasm and delight. Please come to the UK 🇬🇧 😊❤🇺🇸