Superb shopping experience for the whole family

The philosophy behind Garden & Leisure is to offer customers a select product range in surroundings aimed at making shopping a pleasurable experience. To realize this concept, the group consists exclusively of old-established, innovative family businesses that are given the opportunity with the aid of risk capital to implement their ideas in practice. Cadbury Garden & Leisure was the first garden centre in the group to be completely revamped, and the new centre reopened in May 2001. All the Garden & Leisure centres are expected to be reorganized on the basis of this design by spring 2003. To take advantage of the promising possibilities offered by combining the garden and pet spheres, each centre will also have a pet department with live animals.
The elegantly curved entrance portal.
The most recent outlet in the group to open was Barnett Hill Garden & Leisure in Clent, in spring 2002: for an investment of £ 4.5 mio, managing directors John and Jane Moseley have created an architecturally impressive garden centre covering 12 000  at Barnett Hill in just a few months. A 180o-curved glass portal leads visitors into a bright greenhouse that forms the entire interior of the garden centre apart from the pet department.
The outdoor area has been designed in the manner of a park.
The product range is subdivided into four large areas:
Outdoor plants and an outdoor tree nursery. This area of greenery has been laid out in the style of a park and is broken up into a variety of tastefully arranged themed islands. A large number of rarities are to be found among the plants, which are supplied predominantly by local growers. There is also a large selection of stone figures to admire.
Accessory products and indoor plants in the transition area between the outdoor display and the entrance portal. Garden care products are to be found here alongside seeds, tools and seasonal items.
Giftware and decorative articles together with barbecue products: this carpeted sales area is dotted with smartly decorated display platforms at regular intervals. The main emphasis in the range is on high-quality products with the aim of offering new ideas for improving the living space.
Terrace café and pet department with aquatics section: two large ponds, an aquatics section featuring elegant black décor and splendid show aquaria, a three-level rodent house and large aviaries offer visitors an impressive variety of live animals. Importance was attached to distributing…