Highway Garden and Leisure

A great place to shop and eat. Staff are very friendly and helpful.
If you need a friendly face and a cheery word EVERY time you visit go see Vicky and I guarantee you will come away smiling. She is a gem. Highway bosses take note and give her a pat on the back.

We came in late afternoon on the 3rd of July looking for outdoor plants for our giant planter. We had no clue what to buy or what we were looking for. Spotting a lady who worked there, we asked her for help. Unfortunately we do not know her name, but hope someone will know her and let her know how very grateful we were for her help. She was brilliant with her help, choices and patience. Whoever you are 10/10 plus. We have taken pictures and will show you next time if you are working when we visit.

Took my son to Santa’s Grotto today and it was fantastic. The grotto was breathtaking, so much effort and care had been taken to make it a magical experience for children. Santa’s elves were wonderful, my son was captivated. Santa was lovely, my son was very happy with his visit and his gift.
When we left the grotto we went inside the garden centre and I purchased a gift voucher at the tills, the staff were very friendly and helpful. Overall we loved our visit today, and will be back next Christmas if not before.

I always love this place, one of our regulars, only had a drink and sausage roll. Saw a lovely body warmer, but they didn't have my size. So only bought bird food today and a couple of easter eggs.

Excellent cream tea today for our coach group. Fresh delicious scones, tea and coffee topped up. Much appreciated, and thank you all for your excellent service today.

Extensive garden centre, store and large area of carvery restaurant and café. Very friendly staff and lots of choice of products.

Twenty-five Broadland MGOC members visited restaurant early New Year's Day.
Kate and staff were very helpful and obliging.
We will definitely be back for breakfast at a later date.
Thanks Kate.
David J

Went to see Father Christmas today with my 3 children, lovely little grotto with a magical walk to see santa and a pretend train ride with tickets. My children loved it, and the elves were really good with the children and engaged with them. Father Christmas was brilliant and spent time with them and charter chatted lots. The presents were great too, we were pleasantly surprised. We had a brief look in the shop, lovely shop with lots to see, we didn't stay too long as we had a wild toddler on our hands.

Such a well stocked and maintained place, with a great variety of items and a choice for every budget. The staff are always very friendly and helpful, and it is just a pleasant place to visit at any time of the year.

A great garden centre with a huge array of homeware, clothes, plants and gardening equipment not to mention a restaurant too.
I would like to say a big thank you to a member of their staff called Andrew who went out of his way today to find out if they had extra mugs in stock. Realising they were out of stock, he placed an order for extra mugs for me and kindly said that he would phone me when the order arrived. You don't find this kind of customer service very often in today's world. Thank you Andrew.

Absolutely delighted to finally visit Highway Garden Centre, I’ve driven past many times but not ventured in - until today. And I can tell you, I am definitely going to be back here!!

It’s much larger than it might seem from the outside, and has a wonderful restaurant and cafe area on the right after you go in. The restaurant does a serve yourself carvery on a Sunday lunchtime (although no vegetarian options were available when I went, and no gluten free side options either). The cafe does a range of jacket potatoes, sandwiches, scones, cakes and sausage rolls (including pork and cheese!) and I was pleasantly surprised by the range available for gluten free, meaning I had a lot of choices. Lots of veggie options too. The coffee wasn’t brilliant, but if you’re not fancy it’ll definitely do. The tea is good, and they do a decent decaf. The wait time was long, but I did arrive at peak lunch time so that’s to be expected. The staff were very pleasant and helped find me a chair as it was extremely busy and the only table had no chairs! The cafe is a ‘queue first then sit down’ situation, so they’ll give you a number after you order which you pop on the table and they bring out your food when it’s ready.

The garden centre itself is wonderful. I love the home and decor items at the front, next to an entire wall of jellycat toys, and there seemed to be things for everyone - a lovely toy section with puzzles and lego, a garden furniture section, clothing and shoes, accessories like hats and scarves, a kitchen section, food bits, the list goes on!! I loved wandering around the indoor plants, some gorgeous indoor monsteras and bird tables. The aquatic section here is very large, with a huge selection of fish and plenty of accessories. I noticed they were prepping the arrival of pond fish which is great! I made the mistake of naming the large fish in the tank so had to hurry away so I didn’t feel obliged to buy them.

The outdoor plant selection is great, well labelled, with a good variety. The only thing missing was more outdoor furniture and sheds, but there was literally everything else, including access to the plant nursery too.

I picked up some homeware whilst I was there, and was shocked how cheap some of the items were, a lovely little vase for just £2.99! Incredible. A real eclectic mix. I absolutely loved wandering around here and I’m looking forward to coming back and picking up some plants.

Stumbled across this rather magnificent garden centre on the way to Norwich.. Only went in for a coffee but stayed for some time looking around the very spacious indoor and outdoor areas. Large cafe and restaurant with very peaceful and sunny outdoor seating areas with parasols.. Dog friendly too.. 5 star

Visited for the first time at the start of January, I was looking for a specific cherry tree. This place is big with a wide range of plants, an older gentleman who worked there offered to help find what I was looking for and gave me a full breakdown of the range and the layout of the garden centre. He was very knowledgeable on the products, went above and beyond to assist me with my purchase. I have visited again recently and plan to make it a regular place to shop. Thank you.

Lovely Garden centre, with a great cafe and knowledgeable staff.
We went after a speaking to Liam before Christmas about the aquatics section.
Today we went to look at purchasing a fish tank, Adrian helped us today and his knowledge was Superb and was happy to spend the time we needed and guided us into making the right decisions for us. No pressure and was so so helpful. ALL Credit TO him.
We went away with our new fish tank, stand etc and look forward to returning very soon to purchase fish once our water is correct.

The Christmas display is wonderful to see, the variety of decorations is amazing, not forgetting the Christmas grotto for the children to see father Christmas

We just came back from seeing Santa, and I must say our little one loved it. Having only just been to Thursford the experience was a lot smaller, but no less magical.

As my wife said " it's nice to go somewhere where they've put the effort in " and that's exactly what they had done.

From the ticket clipping to meeting Santa at the end you could tell they spent a lot of time putting that altogether and it in itself is deserving of a 5* review.

We also went to the cafe after and it was good food, clean, friendly staff and varied menu. We don't live close but will certainly visit again if we are passing.

Well done everyone at Highways.

Fantastic Dog Friendly 🐶 Garden Centre, ample free parking, lovely café, friendly helpful staff, great range of Garden furniture, Household items and lots more.
Well worth a visit.

Every time we have been and you ask for something the service is fantastic staff are all welcoming and friendly to highly recommend

The BEST garden centre I’ve ever been to! There’s something here for everyone. A really good selection of toys, clothes, gifts, plants and fish. I wanted to say an extra special thank you to the brilliant kind staff in the cafe. My little boy and I had a wonder experience. It was sparking clean and the pastries and cakes looked very tempting.

Really good aquatics centre! Great selection of reasonably priced cold water and tropical fish, as well as aquarium plants. All the staff are friendly, helpful, and very knowledgeable. Would definitely recommend!