The Abingdon Herald has a front page article “TESCO looks poised to win its battle to expand its Abingdon store by more than a quarter.” This will be at the expense of the Garden Centre.

It used to be a good garden centre with a good variety of herbs, heathers, and alpines. However of recent years it has looked less cared for.

The garden centre shop used to be turned over to a toy shop during the pre christmas period, but that function has been taken over by the main store.

Over the road, on the Fairacres estate, Homebase have a garden centre. The Homebase Stores group have recently been brought by the group that owns Argos, and the store has had complete refit.

B & Q also have a garden centre. They and Homebase are open until 8 PM, whereas Tesco which has the main store open for 24 hours, has a garden centre that closes at 5.