PART of a Swindon garden centre has been badly damaged after a parking mishap.

A small section of exterior wall on the Dobbies Garden Centre on Hyde Road in Stratton is blocked by plastic barriers near a parking space.

Two of the building's large windows are boarded up with cardboard while the brickwork underneath the windowsill is broken and a wooden panel near the floor has been snapped off.

There is a gap in the floral displays along the outside of the entrance and parking area, with some disturbed soil and stones where the accident happened.

It appears a car in the parking space closest to the wall went forwards instead of reversing out, hitting the wall at low speed and causing the damage.

Police were not called to the scene.

Swindon Advertiser: Dobbies Garden Centre in Stratton.Dobbies Garden Centre in Stratton. (Image: Newsquest)