点评:What is this place? It certainly isn't a garden centre anymore. Having visited a few times over the years it has gradually become a giant non-entity, packed to the rafters with worthless tat and junk to fill your homes with along with some bad taste fashions for the elderly. The plant side of the business clearly isn't as profitable as the rest and so the plant areas have shrunk to give way to more of the imported junk. Plants are now in two diminishing areas, the shrubs hidden away in ever decreasing numbers behind a dark covered area next to the trellis and junk to fill your garden with. It is a disappointing place to visit if you're a gardener, the very core of the business treated like an unwanted relation. As for the cafe's, well it is clear where the money is made, however my food was foul acidic, Italian chicken, I couldn't eat the sauce it was like someone squeezed a tube of tomato puree over it. The chefs should really taste what they squeeze out of the packets first to make sure it is palatable - not that they could do much about it if that's their baseline level of cooking. The atmosphere it horrible, rushed, chaotic, queues too long as the person on the till makes drinks, the restaurant packed, loud, all the ambience of a Butlins Canteen while the other half of the restaurant is closed off because they don't want people to be spread out, never mind the fact they are paying to be there. Owners should take notice, if this is your Flagship store then please don't roll it out to the others, it is an uncoordinated scruffy mess and certainly not what I would call a garden centre.
翻译:这地方到底是什么?肯定不再是以前的园艺中心了。这些年来我来过几次,它逐渐变成了一个空洞无物的巨大场所,里面堆满了毫无价值的廉价商品和杂物,还有一些品味低俗的老年人服装。植物生意显然不如其他业务赚钱,所以植物区不断缩小,腾出空间摆放更多进口的垃圾。现在植物只剩下两块越来越小的区域,灌木丛也越来越少地藏在棚架和各种杂物旁边的阴暗遮蔽处。如果你是个园艺爱好者,这里绝对不会让你失望,园艺这个核心业务在这里就像个不受欢迎的亲戚。至于咖啡馆嘛,很明显是赚钱的地方,不过我点的意大利鸡肉又酸又难吃,酱汁简直难以下咽,就像有人把一管番茄酱挤在上面一样。厨师们真应该先尝尝他们从包装袋里挤出来的东西,确保味道可口——当然,如果这就是他们的基本烹饪水平,他们也无能为力。这里的氛围糟透了,匆忙混乱,收银员忙着做饮料,队伍排得老长,餐厅里人满为患,吵闹不堪,简直就像个布特林斯度假村的食堂。餐厅的另一半却被封闭起来,因为他们不想让顾客分散开来,完全不顾顾客是付费来的。老板们应该注意了,如果这是你们的旗舰店,千万别把这种模式推广到其他分店,这里简直是一团糟,毫无章法,绝对算不上什么花园中心。