{"id":25098,"date":"2006-05-05T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/05\/05\/tesco-garden-centre\/"},"modified":"2006-05-05T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T00:03:00","slug":"tesco-garden-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25098","title":{"rendered":"Tesco Garden Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06050501.jpg\" \/><br \/>The Abingdon Herald has a front page article &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">TESCO looks poised to win its battle to expand its Abingdon store by more than a quarter.<\/span>&#8221; This will be at the expense of the Garden Centre.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06050502.jpg\" \/><br \/>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. <\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06050503.jpg\" \/><br \/>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.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06050504.jpg\" \/><br \/>B &amp; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Herald has a front page article &#8220;TESCO looks poised to win its battle to expand its Abingdon store by more than a quarter.&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}