Thurrock Garden Centre - South Ockendon

Knowledgeable, helpful staff make visiting the garden centre an enjoyable experience. Staff like Ellis helped me to start to understand my design options in a simple but effective way. He took the time to help a complete beginner gardener realise what could be achieved. I'd recommend the garden centre to anyone.

We visited twice to this wonderful family friendly Garden Centre. For family with Kids, you can treat it as family activity just like visiting park. It has nice Cafe/Restaurant and the cost is quite affordable. The staffs are quite knowledgeable and they tried their best to answer/help you. Very nice and pleasant Garden centre.

I came here towards the end of April and again a week later for my birthday. What a gardeners delight! I couldn’t believe I hadn’t been here before and yet I only live a few miles away. It’s absolutely wonderful, loads and loads of plants to choose from and anything you want/need for your garden. Pots, decorations and much much more! There is also a lovely restaurant on site, with a lovely menu. I had 2 different meals each day and both where lovely Every member of staff was helpful and friendly. This is a new place for me my mum and sister to come too and will no doubt be regulars.

Was here yesterday (18/12/22), what an amazing place, we came here deliberately for the grotto and we didnt have high hopes, but they really did make it a great experience. i wont spoil it, but i would highly recommend this place to take your kids for the grotto. amazing staff at the grotto. as for the garden centre itself, it is pretty big. plenty of garden stuff (that's the best way i can only describe it), if youre a keen gardener or even if you're not it seems to be a great place to visit, there's a cafe which we didnt try but look decent and as it's christmas there was plenty of decorations and choices available. you wont be disappointed. great job to all the staff.

Good food, served piping hot. Great choice. Very friendly and helpful staff, which is why we come back. Lovely cakes.reasonably priced too