The gardens are an absolute delight. Just the right size. The different areas make it more interesting. The ladies at reception were welcoming and friendly with a good sense of humour. Tea room serves good food, staff again are welcoming and friendly. We enjoyed our lunch so much we went back for tea and cake which was freshly made and delicious

We very much enjoyed our spring visit. Arrived for lunch and then a slow peaceful wander round. If of looks and smells this great in spring the Summer must be amazing, we will have to come back. Great to see all the plants with names on and in the different locations they grow. We wish for a garden like that. Well done gardeners on the hard work.

We have visited a lot of gardens and this was one of the best we have visited. Extremely well kept, attractive and well laid out. We appreciated the the amount of plant signage and plentiful seating around the gardens. Good tea and cake too!! Wish it was a little closer to where we live as the annual membership looks very reasonable.

Beth Chatto's garden is a joy to behold at any time of the year. There's always something new to see. The planting schemes are amazing. The nursery is great if you want to attempt growing something you've seen - I've had some success over the years. The cafe is also good.

A beautiful afternoon spent here with my parents, not sure how much it was to get in as my dad paid but the gardens were stunning, the gardeners were very very helpful and friendly, as well as knowledgeable and the nursery had some very reasonably priced plants and a lot of them you wouldn’t see in standard garden centres or if they are are nearly double the price and half the size Fell in love with the border planting and helped me work out how to get my borders with varying height and fill in the spaces Love that by buying the plants there helps pay to run it, will definitely be back for more plants for my garden and to enjoy the garden planting as the season changes The coffee and scones were lovely too Thank you for having us ♥️

I have been waiting to visit this garden for ages and certainly well worth the long drive fro. West Midlands. Make a few days if your trip, there's plenty to do/seebin and around Colchester. If I lived neater I would visit every season, or more likely volunteer to work there. The gardens are the perfect set up to understand Beth's philosophy of right plant, right place. I think everyone will find an area to suit their own garden circumstances. I'm totally inspired to do some rearranging of some of my borders, starting with the excellent plants I bought from the plant centre. Staff very knowledgeable and friendly. Can't comment on the cafe as didn't go in.

Oh no, not another garden centre as my wife organized a detour on a trip to the coast. Well, this was so much more. Stunning gardens, charming knowledgeable staff and really appreciated the commitment to what is obviously a special place. Could see the years and years of hard work that had been invested in the garden and the special dry weather sections were impressive. There is a massive commercial nursery as well with top quality plants for sale (prices reasonable for the quality) and grown on site which seemed quite special (and environmentally friendly). Nice cafe and gift shop too, a great destination for anyone who likes their gardens. Just be prepared to come out poorer with some lovely plants that you probably didn’t need but will enjoy for several years …