点评:I am local to The Plant Place and have witnessed it go from strength to strength, expanding to a fabulously large garden centre. There are so many things I love about this place, the variety of plants, value for money, lovely informative, helpful staff and the whole atmosphere. As a family run business, I am pleased to say that the focus remains on providing what is says on the tin and doing an excellent job. No fancy coffee shops creating extra overhead costs, no gimmicks and expensive displays etc. It is a proper garden centre which provides a huge range of top quality plants at fair prices. I only started gardening a couple of years ago and am learning all the time. I have found the staff to be so friendly and helpful, taking the time to share their knowledge, experience and recommendations without any pressure selling. I was diagnosed with severe PTSD and gardening has become the best therapy ever, so it was important to me that the browsing and buying experience was as stress free and relaxed as possible. It is obvious that the owners take enormous pride in their products and the staff enjoy their work, being gardeners themselves. They are only too willing to help, going over and above with offering advice and tips, their enthusiasm is contagious. I have easily bought over 100 plants and only ever lost one (probably my own fault for putting it outdoors too early) I was given advice on what I did wrong and the second one I bought is thriving. I sincerely hope that the owners continue in the same way and are not tempted to start adding a coffee shop etc, becoming too commercialised. If I want coffee, I can visit Costa, I don't expect to visit Costa and buy bedding plants! The large garden centre next door made this mistake in my opinion and priced itself out of the market, hence the success of the Plant Place. I bought some bedding plants and trailing basket plants from Morrisons on a whim while I was there. They were £2.49 each or 3 for 2 on a tray of 6. I thought they were cheap enough so planted them and to be fair they are growing. However, I then went to the Plant Place and they had a BOGOF offer on same 6 packs at £2.99, so slightly more expensive. There is no comparison between the plants now, the Morrisons ones are smaller and not as healthy, also basic colours. The Plant Place one's are blooming, twice the size and very different colours. So it took 6 Morrisons ones to fill a small basket, 3 Plant Place ones to fill the same size basket and they are so much more healthy and spreading.
In summary, a proper garden centre! No £1000 garden swings, £4.50 slices of cake etc. Just top quality plants at a good price, great staff and no frills.
翻译:我是 The Plant Place 的本地人,亲眼目睹了它不断壮大,扩展成一个非常大的花园中心。这个地方有很多我喜欢的地方,植物种类繁多,物有所值,信息丰富,乐于助人的员工和整个氛围。作为一家家族企业,我很高兴地说,重点仍然是提供罐头上所说的和出色的工作。没有花哨的咖啡店产生额外的管理费用,没有噱头和昂贵的展示等。这是一个合适的花园中心,以合理的价格提供大量优质植物。我几年前才开始园艺,而且一直在学习。我发现这里的员工非常友好和乐于助人,他们会花时间分享他们的知识、经验和建议,而不会施加任何压力。我被诊断出患有严重的创伤后应激障碍,园艺已经成为有史以来最好的治疗方法,所以对我来说,浏览和购买体验尽可能没有压力和放松是很重要的。很明显,业主对他们的产品感到非常自豪,员工也喜欢他们的工作,他们自己就是园丁。他们非常愿意提供帮助,不遗余力地提供建议和技巧,他们的热情具有感染力。我轻而易举地买了 100 多株植物,只丢了一株(可能是我过早把它放在户外的错)我得到了关于我做错了什么的建议,我买的第二株长得很好。我真诚地希望业主们继续以同样的方式继续下去,不要试图开始增加咖啡店等,变得过于商业化。如果我想要咖啡,我可以去 Costa,我不指望去 Costa 买被褥!在我看来,隔壁的大型花园中心犯了这个错误,将自己定价在市场之外,因此 Plant Place 取得了成功。我在那里的时候心血来潮从 Morrisons 买了一些床上用品和拖尾篮植物。它们每个 2.49 英镑,或者 6 个托盘上 3 个 2 个。我认为它们足够便宜,所以种植它们并且公平地说它们正在生长。然而,然后我去了 Plant Place,他们以 2.99 英镑的价格出售同样 6 包的 BOGOF,所以稍微贵一点。现在植物之间没有可比性,Morrisons 的植物更小,也不那么健康,颜色也是基本的。 Plant Place 一个正在盛开,大小是原来的两倍,颜色也大不相同。所以需要 6 个 Morrisons 才能装满一个小篮子,3 个 Plant Place 才能装满同样大小的篮子,而且它们更健康,传播更广。
总之,一个合适的花园中心!没有 1000 英镑的花园秋千、4.50 英镑的蛋糕等。只有价格合理的优质植物、优秀的员工和没有多余的装饰。