I have just learnt that my all time favourite garden centre closed in 2015 and is most probably a housing estate by now. Willowpool Garden Centre, Lymm in Cheshire, was an experience like no other, it was like Alice in Wonderland gone mad, in a lovely English eccentric kind of way. It was a labyrinth of a place, where crazy old antiques sat side by side with modern tacky reproductions. It had gorgeous old garden ornaments, that if we could have carried them home, would be in our garden now. There were many different and really unusual plants, in lovely curious containers. Buildings full of crafts to buy, wonderful little huts to have a bite to eat in, but that was back in 2012. I am just so glad I made a record, it was winter, but the photos hopefully capture the wonderful weirdness of the place. I hope you enjoy this visit as much as I did, and I will miss not being able to visit wonderland anymore.
Echoes of the Past 
What a fantastic place! Do you have any idea why they closed? Can’t imagine people weren’t going there.
I think it might have been for money, you would get a lot of houses on the land the garden centre was on and I think there was a little bit of trouble with the owner, he got into trouble with the law. It is such a shame because it could have been really, really fantastic.
i love the place!! Oh boy, that ape statue whom is named JoJo,would be a wonderful addition to my flowerbed! 😄
There were some wonderful bits and pieces there 🙂
do wonder where there stock went some nice things there
I know, that was my first thought, most probably went for auction, there was a lot more, but I never thought for one minute it would close.