I've probably visited every garden centre the length and breadth of Nottinghamshire - not because I'm a keen gardener but because I like to peruse the homewares and visit the cafes, which invariably offer everything from a Full English to a Sunday roast and everything in between.
Many are pretty swanky and prove a real draw for visitors. But there's one garden centre in a Nottinghamshire village with a far more modest approach - somewhere I'd never heard of until this week.
Six Acres Nurseries, off Loughborough Road, at Costock, has an array of plants for sale, like any other garden centre, plus there's coffee and cakes, a small farm shop, a sprawling play area with a tractor, and farm animals. The difference is the profit from everything sold other than the plants goes to the workers, who have learning difficulties.
