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Tuesday 20 October 2015

If you love Christmas...

...you will love Summerhill Garden Centre.

Every year, the staff create a magical wonderland with all the Christmas decorations. The part of the building usually used to house garden furniture is totally 'blacked-out' and everything is grouped by colour/style and mainly lit with 1000's of fairy lights - it is wonderful.

As an adult I can wander around in awe for hours so you can imagine the excitement on children's faces as their parents take them around this magical world.

This display is predominantly reds & cream...
 ...the decorated trees sit in the centre of huge round tables and are surrounded by baskets of all the 'makings' of the display so that you can purchase items to make your own version at home.

The entrance to this fairyland has a huge display featuring mainly white/cream & crystal with splashes of pink...
...this metal gazebo was a work in progress and looked beautiful and as you can see...
 ...there were trees decorated, ready to finish off the scene.
One of the main features of this area was a fabulous chandelier Christmas tree...
 ...basically an upside down tree hanging from the ceiling - it looks amazing...
...but would cost a fortune to actually re-create.

The garden centre are very good at providing labels detailing which trees have been used and how many lights are involved on each display item. They will also give you an idea of price to create what you see - they also offer a decorating service to produce these for your very own home...oh to have the spare cash to have someone in to create a wonderland like this in your very own home.

Not surprisingly, the week after Christmas when they start their sales and all the Christmas goodies are reduced to half-price, you will see folk with trolley-loads of stuff so that they can 'give it a go' the following year. The queues can be pretty horrendous and you will see families taking it in turns whilst some pop off to the café for a sit down and a cuppa LOL

Perhaps when I win the lottery (rollseyes) I'll be able to get someone in to decorate the house from top to bottom - umm, wonder what colour would look good in the bathroom........................................

1 comment:

Sandra said...

Sounds similar to one near us, and it's amazing