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

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

I can't believe they didn't have or didn't show any aquariums/fish ! IT'S A STAPLE OF GARDEN CENTRES !

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 ❤️

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 KZfaq 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 KZfaq channel. Where we will be uploading vlogs on other days out in the UK and perhaps even more garden centres 😀 Stay safe and well.

Even Brits who don't have gardens love going to garden centres. Lol

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! 😊

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!

A garden centre with plants only is a nursery 👍

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.

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 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.

During the lockdowns in the UK the garden centres were allowed to be open as an essential and they definitely did well as a result. To be fair even small ones have lots of amazing things 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.

The beauty of these garden centers is that they showcase local independent companies x

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.

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 😂

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!😊

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.

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

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 😍😁

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......

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

My son, as a 14 year old used to come with me to the supermarket and find the deadest (is that a word-probably not) most crispy, mouldy, and unwatered plant he could on the sale rack and ask me to buy it. He took it home and within a month it was a triffid. He managed to do it to every single plant he picked out despite their original condition. He’s now nearly 22 and living the other side of the country in uni accommodation but I’m sure he still has a plant somewhere.

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! 😍🇬🇧🤩😍🇬🇧

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.

We love our garden centres here in the UK 😊

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

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.

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.

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

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!!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

This is one of the biggest garden centres I've ever seen!!

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

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 love garden centres they are such relaxing places and a lovely afternoon out.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I feel like garden centres in the UK are the equivalent of a shopping mall for the older people who can’t travel as far and want to go at their own pace.

I love seeing how shocked you are. Now you know why they were popular in Lockdown when no other shops were open! The number of birthday presents & xmas presents that were purchased is unbelieveable!

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.

Thanks Ladies as always. British garden centres really did work it out right. They capitalized on the Brits love of gardens especially with our short growing season. The weather!!!!!! And decided to make them into a "destination" event. You should see them at Christmas.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

There is a great garden centre in Scotland. Looks just like the one in the video. In the back of the shop it opens into a huge dinosaur park with life size animated dinosaurs. It takes a few hours to visit just the dinosaur part, they have a gift shop, cafe/restaurant, children’s play area and even a section as a miniature fairy garden.

They have been announced as the winner of the GCA’s Destination Garden Centre of the Year 2023/24 award Best in the UK.

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 💚

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.

This is my local garden centre and yes, you should see the Christmas display. I know some pensioners who go for breakfast and lunch every day. If they could live there, they would.

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.

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 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.

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 ❤

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.

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??

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.

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

Most garden centres here in UK are like this.

I'm guessing this is one of the biggest, but part of their popularity came from the changes to the Sunday trading laws where garden centers got an exception to open all day. Now most garden centres have an indoor area with a cafe and BBQ, outdoor furniture, outdoor clothing something for kids etc its a weekend day out.

For me, in my area, the equivalent would be a Dobbies garden centre, which does contain a lot of stuff, not as much as this place, but it goes above and beyond your typical "nursery", but then, smaller nurseries are a great way to while away a couple of hours, and usually, their coffee and cakes etc etc go beyond anything you can get from Starbucks or Costa, like, you can get slices of cake that's 6" tall, or corned beef and potato slices as thick as kerbs... Honestly, they are amazing places, large or small.

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.

The biggest one is Bridgemere Garden Centre,there are lots of these types of centres all over the UK,I think it's the biggest in the world I no it's the biggest in Europe

Surely if someone did this in America it would be a huge success? I'm shocked you don't have garden centres like this! ( maybe not as huge) but the content is standard here - except the mini golf- never seen that before! Great reaction!

Within 5 minutes of my house I have 3 garden centres!! Hi from Sussex.

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.

In Britain, we usually say 'green fingers' rather than a 'green thumb' that you say in the States.

Garden centres rule. The older i get, the more i like them. Went to one in Derbyshire 2 days ago which has a cafe/restaurant with someone who seats you at your table (maitre de or however you spell it). Its a nice thing to do on a weekend morning, especially in the summer months.

The Tebay centre they talk about is a motorway service station in Cumbria, just over the border from Northumberland & I shop there, it's a beautiful farm shop & does the original sticky toffee pudding, from (& invented in) Cartmel, Cumbria 😊

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.

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!!!

Well... my roomie is from the UK and I have wanted to go there after watching the ER (called A&E in the UK) and their ambulance/Air ambulance and I'm sold on living there just from those! I would have LOVED to work there in that capacity! Now this.... I'm ready to go!!! 1-Way!

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.

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❤

Why have we never mentioned our garden centres before? I guess we all thought like you did, that anything we have here you'll have ten times bigger and better in the US. 😁This one does look HE-UGE though, so I'm guessing it's up there as one of the biggest. I've got a garden centre like this near me, in Maidstone - it's smaller, but it does have a lot of these different things in it (including an aquarium section.) And yeah, Christmases are AMAZING in garden centres! Last year I went to one in the Cotswolds that had a santa's grotto you could visit, with a couple of REAL REINDEERS the kids could pet, while they waited to see Santa - and of course it goes without saying they make the whole place look like a winter wonderland.

All over the UK there are Garden Centres, some slightly smaller but still with the same sort of stuff. Our local one has a restaurant but we prefer to visit the dairy farm across the road. They make their own ice-cream and have a cafe where you can buy one or more of their 25 flavours. Most families go on a Sunday for a look around.

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.

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.

Hey Natasha and Debbie, I moved to the uk 🇬🇧 7 years ago and every day something new or different shows me the amazing country uk is. You guys should come visit for a few weeks, rent a campervan and just go around, you’ll be amazed

This is the end of summer so there isn’t many flower plants just the hardy plants. In the summer you have all the hanging baskets and bedding plants.There is a lot of these garden centres, ours is called Strikes, same things being sold with a great restaurant serving lovely afternoon tea.🇬🇧❤️

I am from the uk and that place is enormous

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 😊

We often pop to our local garden centre for lunch as the food is so nice.

Love you two it's my hobby, garden centers, fantastic, with a little bit of antique faires

Lakeland is Lakeland Limited which is an amazing shop with its flagship shop in Windermere Cumbria. It also has a restaurant so it is very much a destination venue and is right next to Windermere train station. Also available online. I don’t know if they ship to the States.

I'm surprised that no-one's mentioned this. The late Queen's grand-daughter, Lady Louise Windsor, worked in a garden centre between completing her A Levels and before going off to University.

As kids the garden centre was a regular day out especially when we were with our grandma. To look around at all the decor and sniff all the candles before going for a cake and a cuppa and the Visiting the pet shop on the way out. Every garden centre I’ve ever been in has at least a coffee shop/cafe and some sort of Decor section. Me and my sisters favourite as adults is a tiny one that has tables and chairs amongst all the plants so you can order a coffee and just chill surrounded by all the plants and the huge metal sculptures of African animals it has dotted around. There’s a huge metal gorilla sculpture outside that’s at least 15ft tall.