The best garden centres in Wiltshire
Garden centres are a treasure trove of delights with a host of pots, plants, gardening tools, food for our birds and other wildlife visitors, and pretty lights to brighten up the outdoor area that provides a social space for friends and family, and a quiet solace away from the rest of the world. To provide some inspiration for your next shopping trip, we’ve put a list together of our favourite garden centres near Salisbury, in Wiltshire.
Cranborne Garden Centre
Address: Wimborne Street, Cranborne, Wimborne, BH21 5PP
Cranborne Garden Centre is set in the walled garden of Cranborne manor, features a wide range of plants including 350 different varieties of roses and more than 300 different varieties of herbaceous perennials, as well as shrubs, trees, climbers, bedding plants, pots and stoneware. Stop by the café during your visit for breakfast, lunch, cream teas, and a range of homemade cakes.
Wilton House Garden Centre
Address: Salisbury Road, Wilton, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP2 0BJ
Wilton House Garden Centre is set in the gardens of Wilton House and is a much-loved garden centre in Wiltshire. It sells a range of plants, trees, outdoor products and gift ideas, offering everything that people need to make their garden grow. It also boasts a choice of garden furniture and outdoor dining solutions to enable you to make the most of the space that you have to soak up the sun and enjoy the fresh air. Visitors can also stop off for lunch or a snack at The Riverside Restaurant which is onsite
The Botanic Nursey & Gardens
Address: Coombe Lane, Atworth, Wiltshire, SN12 8NU
The Botanic Nursery and Gardens in Atworth is not a garden centre in a traditional sense, more of a stunning nursery with a sales area, but it’s a break from the rest of the world and a little piece of heaven. If it’s too far to travel by car, there is also an online shop with a whole variety of plants on sale which includes seeds, climbers, perennials, salvia, shrubs, hollyhocks, foxgloves and peonies. The owners exhibit at major flower shows and have won over 20 medals, so you can take away a medal-worthy plant at the end of your visit.
Old Sarum Garden Centre
Address: Old Sarum Garden Centre, Portway, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 6BY
Old Sarum Garden Centre, which is part of the charity, Alabre’s Old Sarum Development Centre, offers a host of shrubs, trees, perennials and seeds all year round, as well as beautiful hanging baskets in spring and summer, and homemade festive Christmas wreaths in winter. All profits from the sale of plants and goods at the garden centre go back into the charity which offers day activities for adults with learning disabilities, autism and poor mental health.
Lowden Garden Centre
Address: Folly Lane, Shaw, Melksham, Wiltshire SN12 8EZ
Lowden Garden Centre in Shaw offers stunning homegrown plants in the shop, beautiful food in the restaurant and fresh groceries such as meat, fruit, veg, milk, cheese and chutneys in the farm shop. As well as a host of plants, and large and specimen trees for sale, there are also garden tools, plant feed, weed control and a range of garden paraphernalia in the store. It’s a real one-stop shop for everything for your garden and food for the fridge.
Retirement living in Wiltshire
Many of our over 55s communities have communal gardens which enable our homeowners to get outdoors and enjoy being out in the fresh air. However, we have gardeners on hand to keep the spaces in tip-top condition so that our homeowners can enjoy their free time at their leisure. We have a range of communities based across the south which brings like-minded people together to enjoy socialising together, while having the benefit of living in their own homes. Keep up to date with our blogs as we'll continually update our list of most-loved garden centres in Wiltshire.
Give our team a call on 01202 040996 to find out more about how you could time the next step towards a happy, healthy new life in one of our Wiltshire communities.
