Ginkgo Garden Centre, London

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Ginkgo Garden Centre, London

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The Ginkgo is an up market garden centre in the W6 area of London. It's on the small side but that's about average for this central London location. They specialise in unusual plants and accessories for the garden.

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PLANTS AREA

The mainly uncovered plants area is small in size but has an interesting layout. Ginkgo Garden Centre specialise in unusual and necessarily expensive centre piece potted plants. Some cost several hundred pounds. There is also an excellent range of unusual tubs, window baskets, containers and garden ornaments, again expensive.

Particularly interesting are the sales areas under the arches of the nearby tube station.

INDOOR SALES AREA

There is a very small indoor sales area which stocks a small range of seeds, plant feeds and accessories. Only the basic items are stocked.

WATER FEATURES
There are a few water features dotted around the garden centre. They tend to be of the slightly unusual type.

INDOOR PLANTS
There is a range of indoor plants at reasonable prices.

SPECIALITIES
As well as selling plants and garden accessories, the Ginkgo Garden Centre offers a landscaping and garden design service.

TOILETS
Yes, access is via the cafe. The toilets were not particulkarly good at the time of our visit.

CAFE
The Ginkgo cafe offers all the normal cafe fayre but many items are slightly off beat. Having said that, the quality of the food was excellent and the prices very competitive for this area of London. We were impressed. An example of their departure from the norm can be judged from the "soup of the day" when we visited. Not your normal mushroom soup, tomato, vegetable soups. No, the ginkgo cafe was offering curried celeriac soup! Excellent stuff.

They sell an excellent range of main meals which certainly had that superb home-cooked look and taste. There is also a range of coffees, teas cakes and snacks. Prices were good as the �1.85 for the very tasty coffee indicates.

CAR PARKING
None, on road parking is likely to be difficult in this area.

DIRECTIONS AND CONTACT
The address is:
Ginkgo Garden Centre,
17 Ravenscourt Avenue,
London W6 0SL

Tel: 020 8563 7112
Email: info@ginkgogardens.co.uk
Website: http://www.ginkgogardens.co.uk
A map can be found HERE

The nearest tube station is Ravenscourt Avenue (District line)

DISABLED ACCESS
The access for wheelchair users is not good with uneven surfaces and very narrow paths in places. Access to the cafe however is fine for wheelchairs.

OPENING HOURS
Monday to Friday: 8.00 to 6.00
Saturdays: 9.00 to 6.00
Sundays: 10.00 to 5.00

SUMMARY
Our ratings below take into account the aims of this garden centre. That is to supply impressive plants and garden features. The Ginkgo garden centre does this very well but come with a loaded wallet if you plan to buy. The cafe serves very good food in pleasant surroundings at very competitive prices.

STAR RATINGS
The lowest rating is 1 star, the highest rating is 5 stars.

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