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Best Garden Centres in Hemel Hempstead

Everyday shopping in Hemel is the Marlowes, the retail parks and the neighbourhood parades that New Town planners actually got right.

Independents survive in the Old Town and in a few parades. Bovingdon Market on Saturday is the unofficial department store for the south-west of the town.

If you can only visit one independent stretch, make it the Old Town High Street before the Marlowes.

Plants that live, cafes that do not embarrass the plants, parking for a boot full of compost.

Hemel Hempstead is small enough that an honest “best garden centres” list should admit gaps. These are the nearest Dacorum options we would actually send you to.

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