St Johns garden centre is a lovely place to go. They sell a great stock of plants, garden ornaments…read moreand at the moment they have some lovely Christmas decorations there. The decorations are slightly more expensive but they are unique.They have also got Christmas lights and trees. We took our girls there the other day and met with our family there and sat and had a meal in there cafe. The cafe is quite big and very relaxed and decent priced. They also have a jungle section which is full of plants and a little track you can walk round which has some pretend animals like leopards and owls, that move when you go by.There is a little bridge with fish under that you go across and a few real animals in cages like turtles and chipmunks. My girls loved looking around there and underneath there is a bit about each animal so they learnt something as well. So it's not just a garden centre there's other bits to look at.

Trelawney is a big garden centre located in Ashford. Outside the garden centre there is a pond that…read morealways has really well fed looking fish and there is a little park for your children to play in. I quite like it in the summer as you can walk round the grounds. Outside they also have a variety of plants, garden sheds and garden ornaments that you can buy. Inside there is a big choice of plants, gifts (especially at Christmas) and they have café which has seating in and outside. A few times we have been to the café and had a roast dinner which was lovely. At Christmas time the garden centre normally sells lots of decorations and has a Santa's grotto. The garden centre always looks really well looked after I'm not really into flowers but I still enjoy looking around there and my daughters do as well.

Trelawney garden centre (previously Ashford) is a recently refurbished big garden centre.Situated…read morejust outside barnstaple it has lovely views over the estuary that you can see for the garden and pond outside the centre. As well as the usual plants it has a huge range of gifts and a cafe that does an extrememly delicious cream tea!