Timmermans Garden Centre

Husband and wife team, Sophie & Greg Timmermans-Delves have recently completed an ambitious, £500,000 year-long programme of building works & refurbishment resulting in a total transformation of this long established and respected Nottinghamshire garden centre. The old greenhouses have been demolished and replaced with a new, light & airy, single span building and an extension to the rear now houses a new 100+ seater restaurant.

The centre uses a number of unusual design features to further enhance the visitor experience, such as the gabion style front wall which doubles as a 15 metre long raised planter. Even the checkout is distinctive; constructed from curved gabions with a marble mosaic top. Visitors to the garden centre are greeted by lifesize driftwood horses in the entrance foyer from where they can enter the covered plant hall.

The theme has been continued into the new restaurant, Belle & Joe’s Rustic Kitchen. The interior décor features Cornish bricks, a Farrow & Ball colour scheme, Travertine flooring, waxed wood and tastefully upholstered bench seating running the length of the restaurant. The outdoor seating area is south-facing, with views across the fields and is a real sun-trap. Homemade cakes and freshly baked scones are displayed at the marble topped waitress station whilst visitors can watch their meals being prepared in the open kitchen.