Cherry Lane Garden Centres Reviews 

The Gnome Inspectors from Garden Centre Finder paid a visit to Cherry Lane Garden Centre in Bedfordshire and it’s safe to say… this one earned its 5 stars 🌿

There’s a really good mix here — plenty of plants, but also lots to browse beyond the garden side of things. It’s definitely more of a “day out” centre rather than a quick stop, which we loved.

The value stood out straight away. You can really feel that when you’re walking around — lots of choice without feeling overpriced.

We took full advantage of the café (obviously ☕), and it’s the kind of place you can happily sit for a while before heading back out for another wander.

There’s something quite relaxed about this centre — not too rushed, easy to explore, and plenty of little corners where you find things you didn’t expect.

🌿 Gnome Ratings:
Plants: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Café: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
Overall experience: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

💎 Gnome Verdict:
One of those places you don’t just visit once… you keep going back.

Cherry Lane Garden Centre Salhouse Norwich review.
The entrance to this garden centre is a death trap with huge pot holes! You could easily damage your car. The garden centre and tea room is fine but we will not be visiting again until something is done about this hazard!

Terrible, Hutches for rabbits tiny prisons and all from China!

Have visited Bawdeswell garden centre for years & always been consistently happy with the service from all staff & quality of food from restaurant.
However with the change to Cherry Lane Garden Centre I have continued to appreciate the excellent customer service from all staff & now the competitive range of goods but quality of food in the restaurant has sadly disappointed me & unfortunately the attitude of the Kitchen “cook” desires more attention to quality of food prepared & arrogance towards any communication with Cherry Lane long standing customers. It would be of benefit to Cherry Lane Business to review this issue?
Thank you to all other hard working friendly members of Staff.
Happy New Year

This was our visit to the Bradmore Centre. Just been today 1 jan 2026. The cafe was open but the bottom area where the people with dogs can sit was closed for cleaning. So dogs were allowed anywhere. It might be a good idea for the whole area to have a deep clean. The girl who was clearing tables and giving out the meals never once wiped the tables all the salt and pepper pots had food on them. They were putting saucers out in front of the till with food still on them. You could see into the kitchen and there were dirty pots everywhere. I think it may need an inspection in the near future.

Had a fantastic Christmas Dinner today at the Braintree centre. Food was lovely with great sized portions & the staff were fantastic with us. Highly recommend.

We just had a Christmas lunch at your your Fritton branch near Great Yarmouth . The service was brilliant All the staff were very polite helpful smiling and very professional. The food was lovely and plenty of it. Just want to say a big thank you to all it was great. Keep up the good work

South Hill veiw
The food is always very good, nice and hot.
Staff have also been very friendly.
I just wish they could make better arrangements for people with dogs!! I Had 85 year old in wheelchair! 87 year old slowly walking to stay steady, and an 80year old that has had a stroke!! Low and behold no were to sit!! Must people in the dog area had no dogs.Not the first time I've had this problem.

I was really impressed with the breakfast with Santa at the Hockley branch. Our family of 8 adults and 4 children all had a lovely full English breakfast which was delicious. The kids loved the entertainment (so did the adults!) and the star of the experience was obviously when Santa arrived. It was so nice that he had a present for each child with their name on it, that personal touch made it very special. He sat in a chair and pulled out a present and then called out the child’s name for them to go and get their present, which we thought was so cute. The waitresses were amazing, making sure we had everything we needed to enjoy our breakfast. Me and my family said we would definitely do this again, we all enjoyed the whole experience and would definitely recommend

Dont advertise as being dog friendly when you are not

On 11 Sept I purchased a £39.99 garden parasol and a few other items. I had been given a £30 gift voucher. Total bill £45.99. I had a £30 gift voucher and was informed I had £5 from them too.Less vouchers should have been £10.99. Asked for £11.56. Checked bill, discount on cat treats only taken off one set of 3 (3 for £3.00 instead of £3.57) given the cash.
Returned parasol today as it didn't fit my table. No issues returning but, only given £35.71. This is because, the £5 voucher from them, which, I didn't know about distributes itself across all purchases not just taken off the final total. So in effect they took £4.28 of their 'gift' back! It's policy evidently. If I hadn't used the voucher I would have had the full cost back. So, if you have a voucher as a gift from them make sure everything is suitable and won't be needed to be returned. One shop I shan't be using again.

I would like to recommend this baker, I was served by kelly, she was really helpful, we live only just round the corner in Belton, of course we will back soon, it is so useful having a bakers just around the corner.

Cafe restaurant run by incompetence
Empty restaurant expect old or disabled people to walk round with a buzzer for half hour.
Why not let people sit down order a drink, and wait
Never enough staff
Lady standing at entrance turning customers away wants to go and do some work like serve or clear tables, now a rubbish joke place we will never go again.

This review is regarding the cafe and not the garden centre and shop which seems to be well stocked and have a great selection. There are far better cafes in Long Melford that deserve your custom.

we stopped on Monday for breakfast and i must say it was the worst breakfast iv had it was cold plus my wife had a black hair in her beans i must just say IT WAS CRAP. we often have breakfast at the cherry lane fritton Norfolk and i must say it's blood good

Me and my husband went to the garden centre today at baweswell Norfolk to have dinner we got there at 1pm to be see no roast dinner and sold out of the pie on the special board so we had sandwich with salad when it arrived the lettuce was brown and the salad was warm my brown bread tuna sandwich was very dry and not nice I am not happy with this

Called in this morning for coffee and tea cakes. They gave an areas at the rear of the cafe for dog owners. However some sit anywhere, feeding the dog on their lap, at the table. Prior to feeding the poodle, it was carried to the cutlery area, to obtain tea spoon, napkins and knife for the food to be delivered presently. I think feeding dogs in a restaurant should be stopped, as it is not hygienic. Dogs often beg for food and are treated as youg children. .

Rude ignorant staff on 2 occasions latest one today. 2nd time buying from here - definitely the last. Previous time checkout person totally ignored us and left us standing at the wrong checkout whilst she was chatting away to a 'friend' and opening packets. After 5 mins she dragged herself over and after watching us unpack out items said wrong til its this one. Today unloaded items at till woman there totally ignored us with her back to us and a young lad came behind the counter - he too ignored us until I asked if someone was serving and then they both looked and said we don't open until 10.30 there's a sing over there (pointing to the middle of the shop) if you look. We hadn't seen anything ... but their attitude, demeanour and the smarminess from the woman did it for me... we will take our business elsewhere.

I've given this review 1 star because most aspects of the GC are excellent - wide range of goods, lovely staff, good café.... however the owners really need to do something about the intense heat.
We go on a regular basis and even on a warm day, the heat inside has cut short our visits.
But on a day like today which was hot, the heat inside the main building was unbearable. They have massive fans dotted about, which do nothing more than blow hot air at you, because the roof is made of glass/plastic, with no visible vents to let any of the stifling heat out. The shop is situated in what at one time must have been greenhouses, which, once converted to a shop, should have been upgraded to a level that paying customers expect.
My friends and I ended up leaving 2 hours earlier than normal, even though we wanted to look around more to make further purchases.
We shan't be going again unless something is done for the comfort and welfare or their customers (and staff!)
At least something is finally being done about the smelly loos!
Shame on whoever owns this place.

Appalling Customer Service.