Bridge Farm Plants

Safety measures at Bridge Farm Plants

29/6/2020

Although the Government has been easing Coronavirus restrictions we still take the health and wellbeing of our staff and customers seriously.

Please pay attention to all signage on site:

*To avoid pinch-points and crossovers we have a one-way system in place along the front of the plant centre: please do not enter the indoors shop until you have finished shopping outside.

*Help and advice is available from a side window 'serving hatch' in the outdoors area

*Hand sanitiser and trolley/basket cleaning equipment is provided at the entrance

*If you come with other members of your household please stay close together; please respect staff and other customers by keeping your distance from others

*Please try to limit the number of plants and labels you handle

*We are restricting the number of customers in the indoors shop to one person - or one household group. Please do not enter the shop if you can see other customers inside. Please give them space to exit safely.

*Please stay behind the perspex screen while staff ring up your purchases

*Contactless payment preferred

We thank you for your support and cooperation and look forward to seeing you when we reopen on Wednesday!

All set for reopening at Monks Eleigh!

29/6/2020

Lots of lovely plants from Katie's Garden have been heading our way ready for our reopening on Wednesday!

Bridge Farm Plants will be reopening 1st July

20/6/2020

The Bridge Farm Barns site is gradually reopening to the public.

Sarah's Attic is now open seven days a week; Corn Craft, Brett Gallery and Oliven are open with reduced hours; Lavenham Falconry hope to reopen soon.

From 1st July we will be open 10am-4pm Wednesdays to Sundays, closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

To allow everyone to shop safely we will have several measures in place including:

Partial one-way system: shop the outside area before coming into the glass lean-to. For help and advice ask at the side window.
Hand sanitiser at the entrance
Cleaning facilities for shopping carts and shopping baskets
Household groups will be asked to stay close together, whilst keeping distance from any other shoppers
Limit of one person - or one household group - in the glass lean-to at any one time
Perspex screen around till area
Please pay by contactless card whenever possible

We ask that customers please follow all the above rules for everyone's wellbeing.

Bridge Farm Plants to remain closed for now

9/5/2020

Although the Government has announced garden centres are to be allowed to reopen to the public from Wednesday 13th May, Bridge Farm Plants will remain closed for now.

Katie's Garden, the nursery which supplies all our plants, is continuing its home delivery service - head to www.katiesgarden.co.uk to order now.

'Gardening for the Uncommitted' - new book available now!

30/4/2020

Bridge Farm Plants’s very own Catherine McMillan has a new book out!

Gardening for the Uncommitted: What You Really Need to Know, When You Don’t Really Want to Know is available to buy now on Amazon as a paperback book, download for your phone or tablet, and for free with a KindleUnlimited account. From mid-May it will also be available to buy as part of our plant delivery service.

The perfect light read whether you are new to gardening or have spent years muddling though, the book keeps things short and simple, accompanied by humorous illustrations to help the information go in.

Catherine - who provides most of the tips and advice featured on our Facebook page, website and email newsletters - said: “In over 20 years of working on nurseries I’ve built up a good picture of what people do and don’t know, the misunderstandings and common mistakes. I’ve used that as the basis for this book to make a guide to gardening that keeps to the real essentials for a quick and easy read.”

Great as a gift for the friend or relative in your life who is still getting the hang of it all.

Order your copy now

Listen to Catherine giving gardening advice every Friday morning on Felixstowe Radio's Rob Dunger show

Home delivery service

30/3/2020

We are now closed to the public in line with Coronavirus restrictions.

Head to our supplier's website www.katiesgarden.co.uk to order your plants and baskets online for free home delivery (minimum plant purchase £20) to areas including Lavenham, Hadleigh, Needham Market, Sudbury, Stowmarket, Ipswich and villages in between.

Coronavirus update

16/3/2020

Following government advice, the Corn Craft tearooms will be closed until further notice.

For now Bridge Farm Plants remains open seven days a week with a full selection of garden plants.

We are currently working with our nursery supplier on setting up a system for telephone and online ordering and home delivery and will be announcing details of this in the coming days, along with details of any changes to our opening times that might become necessary.

We hope you will be able to support our local business during this difficult time.

Our Monks Eleigh plant centre is open for the new season!

26/2/2020

We had a busy day of setting up today and now Jo and Catherine are ready to welcome you back to Bridge Farm Plants!

The shop is full of flower and fragrance and there is a wide choice of frost-proof garden plants outside - come and take a look!

We are closed until 1st March ... but you can still get our plants!

8/1/2020

Take a trip to our suppliers, Katie's Garden in Newbourne for the full range.

You will also find a wide choice at Alder Carr Farm Shop in Creeting St Mary.

If you are just after some seasonal colour you will find selections of potted bulbs, patio plants and winter bedding at Monks Eleigh Community Shop, Bildeston Bank Stores and the St Elizabeth Hospice shops in Hadleigh and Stowmarket. Click for details.

Last chance to get your Christmas tree!

16/12/2019

Last few potted and cut Christmas trees available now.

Pop in for our gift planters, gift vouchers, wreaths, and don't forget the mistletoe!

Wreaths priced £10-£14; mistletoe £2.50-£4. Gift plants include Christmas Hyacinths, Christmas cactus, Cyclamen, Primlets, miniature Roses, Kalanchoe and more.

Our last day of the season is Sunday 22nd December; reopening 1st March.

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