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The Gardeners Restaurant is a family restaurant at Longacres Bybrook Barn with a light and airy atmosphere with tones of grey and green to give a fresh look. The restaurant boasts an outdoor seating area overlooking the gorgeous lake.

Here at Longacres we have an abundance of beautiful specimen houseplants to make your living space an oasis of calm – come in and see for yourself! It’s a great time of year to renew and refresh plants in your home. Looking after houseplants is a pleasurable indoor activity and incorporating flowering and foliage plants has the added benefit that plants soak up harmful carbon dioxide and emit oxygen.

It’s not just a frost in the air you can feel right now, it’s also a bit of love. We’ve got a huge range of stunning Valentine’s Day flowers for you to treat that special someone with. Take a look at our full range of flowers, plants and gifts online here - including a selection of new for 2019 bouquets, arrangements and gifts!

With Christmas and New Year’s suddenly seeming like a distant memory, it’s time to start looking ahead for the year to come! Why not start 2018 the right way with some stunning new interior furniture or even just a houseplant to fill that gap in your home that the Christmas tree has left.

Save 70% off our Christmas trees, Christmas lights & Christmas decorations in stores now! You can also save 50% off our diaries & calendars and 25% off our Christmas food & Christmas Yankee Candles!

Christmas day and Boxing day can be a stressful time when trying to pull out all the stops for the Christmas food. But do not worry, Bevan’s Butchers has your back! They have a large assortment of high-quality food for the festive essentials that will make it a Christmas to remember.

On Friday 14th December, people around the UK put on a Christmas jumper to raise money for an amazing charity called Save the Children. By supporting this charity, we will help children in the UK and around the world make their mark. A donation of £2 to this important charity will pay for antibiotics for five children who are suffering from pneumonia which is one of the biggest killers of children.

Some of you might have heard Steve Murray our plant buyer on Radio Woking this morning talking about real cut, potted and pot grown Christmas trees! If you missed it then you can catch up with everything on the Radio Woking Mixcloud page.

It has come to the time of year where homes are starting to feel festive with Christmas decorations. As well as Christmas trees, festive floral arrangements are a popular decoration to have in your home to add an extra touch of festivity.

Now we’re really on the countdown to Christmas and everyone is in a rush to decorate the house and garden for the holiday season, plus all those gifts to buy for friends and family of course! Come to Longacres where you can find everything in one place – from decorations to food, giftware to garden ornaments. There’s so much to choose from you won’t know where to start! Here are our horticultural highlights from our Bagshot store.

Longacres has partnered up with Springfree to offer you the chance to win an 8ft Springfree Trampoline this Christmas! Find out more details on how to enter on our blog.

Everyone loves giving or receiving a flowering houseplant during the festive season. Here are our top five best loved plants, plus care guidelines to share so that we all get the best from our plants.