Moores Nurseries and Garden Centre

What it’s like

A garden centre near Nottingham with a proper café, free treasure hunts for kids and easy free parking.

This is a plants-and-pots visit first, but there's more for kids than you'd expect. There's a free treasure hunt with a prize at the end and a simpler scavenger hunt too, so a wander round the aisles doesn't have to end in tears. On special weekends they do free face painting, and there are craft tables, character meet and greets, and art workshops run with Create Art School dotted through the year. Around Christmas there's a Festive Bear Workshop and a Santa Paws event with dogs.

Moores Café is where most families end up. It does breakfast, home baked scones and cakes, and a kids meal with a jungle lunch box. Weekdays the café's open 9am to 4pm, with breakfast till 11:15am and lunch served 11:30am to 2:45pm. Sundays it's a shorter day, 10am to 3:30pm, same lunch window. Tables aren't bookable, it's first come first served, so if you're after a table at 1pm on a Sunday you might be waiting.

Opening hours shift with the seasons. Winter it's 9am to 4:30pm Monday to Saturday and 10am to 4pm on Sunday; from early March it stretches to 5pm on weekdays. Bank holidays generally run 9am to 5pm, that covers Good Friday, Easter Monday, the early May bank holiday, the Spring bank holiday on 26th May and the August bank holiday, but Easter Sunday itself is closed by law. Christmas Eve is a short one, breakfast only until 1:30pm, and the whole place shuts over Christmas and New Year, reopening 3rd January.

It's free parking, dog friendly and wheelchair accessible, so a buggy won't be a problem either. If you fancy bingo, it's on every Tuesday from 10am with eyes down at 10:30am, which is more of a grown-up treat while the kids do the scavenger hunt.

What’s on here

• SUN11

  Halloween Make a Bear

  A Halloween teddy bear making session at Moores Nurseries and Garden Centre near Keyworth.

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• SAT31

  Halloween Event

  Free

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• SAT28

  Wreath Workshops

  Festive wreath-making workshop at Moores Nurseries, with morning and afternoon sessions on 28 November.

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• SUN29

  Santa Paws

  10:00

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• SUN6

  Festive Bear Workshop

  11:00

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• SUN6

  Workshop with Helen from Art Create School

  14:00

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• SAT12

  Breakfast with Santa

  A Santa breakfast event at Moores Nurseries and Garden Centre on Saturday 12th December.

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Facilities

Need to know

Food

Moores Café serves breakfast, lunch, home baked scones and cakes, freshly cooked locally sourced food daily

• The treasure hunt and scavenger hunt are free and don't need booking ahead
• Face painting only happens on special weekends, not every visit
• Tuesday bingo starts at 10am, eyes down 10:30am
• Christmas Eve is breakfast only until 1:30pm
• The whole place closes over Christmas and New Year, back open 3rd January

Plan your visit

Also on site

• Moore's Cafe

  Cafe serving refreshments including home baked scones and cakes, and freshly cooked, locally sourced food daily.

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