Thompson's Welling

Come and visit our award winning garden centre. Best Plant Area in the local South Thames area 3 years running, 2023, 2024 & 2025, as well as Best Plant Area Nationally for 2024.

Our friendly, experienced and dedicated staff have a wealth of gardening knowledge to share with you.  Our garden centre is packed full of beautiful plants, grown on our very own nurseries and we have everything your garden needs no matter what size garden you have.


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Thompson's Welling
353 Shooters Hill
Welling
Kent
DA16 3RP

 ­ 020 8856 2933

 ­ [email protected]

Opening Hours Welling

  • Monday
    09:00 - 17:30
  • Tuesday
    09:00 - 17:30
  • Wednesday
    09:00 - 17:30
  • Thursday
    09:00 - 17:30
  • Friday
    09:00 - 17:30
  • Saturday
    09:00 - 17:30
  • Sunday
    09:00 - 17:30

Sunday - Shop is only open between 10:30am and 4:30pm

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Award Winning Garden Centre 2025

Best Plant Area - 3 Years Running!

We have won an award for the Best Plant Area 2025 Local Garden Centre, South Thames category of the Garden Centre Association. That's 3 years in a row! Well done to all the staff who continue to work incredibly hard to make our plant area look amazing!

Our Plant Area is now entered into the National final where the top 10 garden centres in the country get inspected again to determine the overall winner. Fingers Crossed!

National Award - Best Plant Area 2024

Having got through to the National finals, we are delighted to announce we have won the award for the best Plant Area in the Local Garden Centre category of the Garden Centre Association.  This national award means we beat competition from all over the country to land this coveted prize.

A big congratulations and a massive thank you to all the dedicated staff who put in so much hard work to make this possible.

Meet Thompson's Welling's Manager

Paul has worked for Thompson’s for 10 years now and has close to 40 years experience in the gardening industry, with a wide knowledge of all things plants. He first started at Thompson's Petham where he was a plant manager before progressing to our Chislehurst garden centre in the same role. Paul took on the plant area manager role at our Welling garden centre in 2019 before progressing to the general manger role in 2025
 

Favourite Plant

“Trachelospermum Jasminoides - it's versatile, low maintenance and gives you year round interest”

Get to meet Paul

Do you want to ask Paul and his team for advice? Check our opening hours and visit Thompson's Welling. 

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