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Christmas Wonderland Now Open

From October we have a spectacular Christmas department with decorations for the tree, all around the home and some great gift ideas, with exciting new themes for 2026!

This year’s journey through our Winter Wonderland…..

“Traditional Treasures” has ornate baubles, sparkling gems and flowers in red, gold, green with a touch of dark blue along with lots of bows which are very fashionable this festive season.  Robins, snow globes and nativity can also be found in this section along with advent candles and the beautiful pop-and-slot advent calendars.

“Gleeful Nostalgia” is an eclectic mix which shows anything goes at Christmas!  We have fun ceramic food ornaments with faces and Christmas hats, decorations to cover hobbies and interests and dinosaurs as well as cute, felted folk!  There’s a touch of vintage too with tinsel, foil decorations, garlands and baubles and droplets.  Thaxters’ famous animated Father Christmas sits reading his book in this fun section amongst the many animated characters.

“Forest Friends” has delightful, felted creatures nestling amongst the lit branches and mossy tree trunks. You’ll find deer, hedgehogs, squirrels and an abundance of mice getting up to all sorts of antics!  Woodland flowers, bright berries, holly and ivy, acorns and lots of mushrooms finish off the display.

“Frozen Fantasy” gives a cold, icy feel with beautiful lit trees, white, crystal and glass decorations including swan, angels and stunning droplets.

 “Operatic Floribunda” is a spectacular, theatrical display in rich, opulent burgundy, dusky pink and antique gold.  Choose from beautiful baubles, ballerinas and birds, velvet flowers and fruits.

We have new designs and colours in our ever-popular LED lit baubles including ones with a motor which will rotate! 

Following last year’s introduction of a bigger display of lit and musical villages and animated scenes, we have added new designs to give you lots of ideas for creating your own scenes at home using snow and smaller decorations.  You will find a great selection of indoor and outdoor lights, lit characters, glitter spinners, lanterns, infinity mirrors, candle arches and more lit stained-glass decorations as well as artificial trees.  

For those that like to make their own decorations, arrangements and displays there are plenty of garlands, wreaths, silk flowers and picks.  Decorated garlands, wreathes and table centres are also available and tableware, candle holders and candles to add that finishing touch.

Through the canopy we have a selection of lit reindeer, trees, obelisks and blinking characters all suitable for display outside and many different lights, lit stars and snowflakes suitable for the outside of the house.  There are decorative metal stakes and ornaments for the garden too.

You will find wonderful gifts ideas – cushions and throws, ornaments, books, jigsaw puzzles, stationery including Wrendale and a wonderful new range of candles and other home décor and fragrance from Candlelight.  We have some gorgeous scarves, gloves, hats and socks to keep you warm this winter.

Our ever-increasing gift food range includes decorative tins of biscuits, cakes, preserves and chutneys and lots of other treats including a new range of delicious chocolates!  We have gardening gifts and décor, tools, bird food and feeders and lots of great stocking fillers too.  Plus, dog treats, toys and beds for your furry friends! 

Thaxters Winter Wonderland, provides an enjoyable, local shopping experience for all your decoration and gift requirements, in a relaxing environment, and free parking too!  Real Christmas trees and wreaths, seasonal houseplants and planted arrangements arrive late November.

And outdoors we will be having our full-size singing reindeer too!

We are a popular family run garden centre which has been established for over 50 years. We are situated on the beautiful North West Norfolk coast, on the old coast road in the village of Dersingham just one mile away from royal Sandringham.

We stock everything you could need for your garden and still believe that plants are at the heart of the garden. As well as a large well stocked plant area and all the usual garden essentials we have an ever expanding gift range so you will easily find a gift for any occasion. Most of our plants have been supplied by small local nurseries that we have been working with for many years and that have our same passion for quality, healthy plants at competitive prices.

We also have the essential Coffee Shop that is now one the most important parts of anyone’s visit to the garden centre. We believe in baking our own cakes, making our own meals of the day, making our own sandwiches on bread supplied by our local baker, and serving coffee that has been roasted just up the road, you will find 90% of our produce home made.

We have a small friendly team who are always ready and willing to help whether it be advise on a plant or carrying a bag of compost to your car we will always do our best to help you.

Dogs are welcome in our garden centre and in our special ‘Doggy Dining Den’ in our Coffee Shop. *Please note the Coffee Shop is counter ordering only.

Our Garden Centre loyalty reward App available to download free onto your phone and start earning points every time you shop in store.