Barton Grange Garden Centre, just outside of Preston, is now on my list of favourite shopping places after a whistlestop visit at the weekend. It's not 'just' a garden centre but it has a fantastic gift shop, fab farm shop and a cafe. But apart from that, they've gone wild for Christmas and their gift shop has been turned into a magical winter wonderland. This year's theme is ‘A World of Christmas’ and the displays are designed to represent different continents, countries and cities of the world including Africa, Thailand, India, Venice and the UK. But my favourite was a min-world complete with mountains, rivers and waterfalls, a zoo and a working railway! I can definitely understand why they've won 'Best Christmas display in the North West' two years running now.
Needless to say, I came away with far more things than I was planning on buying but it was a great experience and I'll be back again soon.
Psst, don't forget to visit the men's toilets (ladies, please ask first if you want to sneak a peak!), they may possibly have the most beautiful urinals in the world...!
Cilla
Me and my partner found ourselves at a lose end a couple of Saturdays ago so we went for a visit to Barton Grange and ended up drooling over the cakes in the food hall. We treated ourselves to a slice of carrot cake and a slice of chocolate fudge gateau which we devoured later on at home. Delicious!!!! We also picked up a slab of Blacksticks White cheese which we'd never seen before. Yum!!! Numerous New Year’s resolutions all broken in one fell swoop...but worth every calorie!
Posted by: Kate Roberts | 26 January 2010 at 01:35 PM