Plant Centre
The Plant Centre is attractively located within the gardens and offers a good selection of hardy plants, all sourced from UK growers.
The timber Woodside Garden Centre stocks a range of practical gardening items such as seeds, seasonal bulbs, garden tools, gloves, and string as well as a superb range of wild bird food and feeders. New for 2021 is our aquatics section offering everything you need for ponds and water gardening.
Also located in this area is the grocery shop.
The Plant Centre and Garden Shop is currently manned by myself (Emma), and husband Stephen, with lots of help from our enthusiastic and knowledgeable team, so we are able to help with your purchases and offer sensible advice.
Plants
We always have in stock a wide range of plants, depending on the season. This will include:
- Annual bedding plants, both winter and summer
- trees and shrubs
- fruit trees
- vegetable plants
- herbaceous perennials
- alpines
We also have a good range of seasonal bulbs and vegetable seeds for sale.
Compost, fertilisers and other gardening staples
We stock a full range of composts, fertilisers, chemicals and organic products depending on the seasons. We are proud to stock Dalefoot compost, sustainably and organically produced in the Lake District using sheep's fleece.
We also have a full range of gardening accessories and tools. We now offer a tool-sharpening service.
Garden Ornaments
We stock pots and planters from the Errington Reay and Mims salt glazed, elemental and courtyard ranges. We also have a range of Green man wall plaques, statues and bird baths.
Wildlife Products
We are very pleased to have an excellent range of wildlife products, including nesting pouches, bee habitats, bird boxes and bug hotels. We also have our own range of wild bird food, which have been developed with bird food experts, Red Barn. These include the Woodside No Grow Wild Bird Seed, Woodside "2Honeysuckle" Mix and Woodside Blue Tit Feast.
Read our tips for feeding the birds here.
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Opening Times
The plant centre, grocery shop and tea room are open daily from 10am - 5pm March to October and 10am - 4pm November to February. (Closed Christmas and New Year)
Booking is recommended for indoor seating in the tea room - please phone 01835 830315. We cannot accept Tearoom bookings via social media or email.
Car Park
Car parking is only available during opening hours. The car park gate is locked when we are closed.
How to Get in Touch
We love meeting people and caring for our plants, but we are not so keen on sitting in the office and working on a computer. Because of our lovely woodland setting internet signals are intermittent, so emails and social media requests may go un-answered. Please phone us during opening hours on 01835 830315 for all enquiries.
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What's been happening in the Plant Centre this year.
Aquatics Department Open
Now that spring is well and truly here (isn’t it wonderful?) our aquatics department is now open for the summer. We stock coldwater fish, pond plants, self contained water features…
Buy Wild Flowers and Strawberry Plants Now
We are delighted that you can now buy wild flowers from the plant centre at Woodside. The wild flowers all require different growing conditions, depending on the variety, but they…
Gardening Tasks for March
March is a funny month in the garden – sometimes it can feel like the start of spring, other years it seems like we’re still in the depths of winter.…
