Yesterday our Red Hat group had a nice lunch at Garden Works/Mandeville Gardens in Burnaby. For over 50 years, Mandeville Gardens operated at Marine Drive and Nelson Ave. It was founded by the Kuypers family. The family moved to BC in the late 1940’s, started market gardening and eventually grew bedding plants and established their garden centre. The garden centre has long been considered one of the premiere garden centres in British Columbia and had been owned and operated by Summer Winds Garden Centres from 1998 to 2005.
Gardenworks at Mandeville was acquired in January, 2005. The store was completely renovated in the early 1990’s to incorporate a much larger covered selling area for annuals and perennials, an attractive floral and gift area, and the first café in a garden centre in BC. The store is large, on a 4.5 acre site, with 60,000 sq. ft. of indoor selling space, and an additional 40,000 sq. ft. of selling space outside. They offer children's birthday parties, many different events and workshops and a wonderful cafe! We had our lunch at the cafe.
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| A great turnout! |
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| Very unique kitchen items |
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| Both Pat and I had a smoked salmon croussant! It was delicious. |
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| The orchids were gorgeous! |
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| The colours of the flowers and the scent was incredible! |
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| Lots of great plants! |
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| Great to walk around and see all the greenery! |
