How to care for your Real Christmas Tree Christmas tree shopping is the BEST! we love it when we see regular faces, with the children another year older but still enjoying playing within our display of Christmas Tree’s. Here are our five top tips for making sure that your family tree stays as fresh and […]
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Keep up to date with all the latest news and gardening tips!Christmas & New Year Garden Centre Opening Times
With the festive period fast approaching – Please see our planned Garden Centre Opening hours for home deliveries & further assistance please call 01263 579485 Christmas & New Year Opening Times Christmas Eve Thursday 24th open from 10am – 2pm (LAST DELIVERY DAY BEFORE WE CLOSE FOR XMAS) Christmas Day Friday 25th Closed Boxing Day […]
Spring & Summer Bedding Plants Ordered
Check us out for being super organised!! – (excited for 2021) We have just placed our order for our baby Spring & Summer 2021, plug bedding plants. With just under 9,000 ordered, this is bound to keep our ickle, GCO team busy throughout late Feb & early March. #locallygrown #norfolk #gardencenterlife https://www.gardencentreoverstrand.co.uk/product…/plants/
GCO CLOSED FRIDAY 25th SEPTEMBER
FRIDAY 25TH CLOSED DUE TO EXTREME WEATHER We are very sorry for any inconvenience, but due to the extremely high winds and high level of rain that we have received over night, and are still receiving; we have decided in the interest of both our staff and customers safety to CLOSE the Garden Centre today. […]
Wear Your Mask at Garden Centre Overstrand
All visitors to our Garden Centre are required to wear a face mask/covering, upon entering. From this morning, 24th July 2020. To save any confusion we ask that you have your mask on before entering the main door from the front car park. Our small team will be wearing them in accordance with the latest […]
The Potting Shed Tea Room Opening Update
The Potting Shed Tea Room @Garden Centre Overstrand Good Morning, just a little update on our current plans and thoughts for our Potting Shed Tea Room, With many other establishment re-opening today for the first time since the 24th March, we sadly will not be re-opening our beautiful Tea Room today. Once we find our […]
Opening Saturday 16th May 2020
Garden Centre Overstrand & The Potting Shed Tea Room – COVID-19 Opening Procedure Update; We are opening from 10am this Saturday 16th May 2020 We are excited by the latest Government announcement regarding the re-opening of Garden Centres in the UK. We’d like to thank everyone that has supported us over the last 9 weeks, […]
North Norfolk Loves Perennials
Hardy Perennials – we all love them!!!
Summer bedding plants
There is nothing stopping your garden, however small or large, having some colour this year! Why not grab a pot and plant up some colour!? Packs of Summer Bedding plants Petunia French Marigold (French bee) Cosmos mix Mesembyanthemum mix African Marigold Mix Viola Mix Pansy Mix Ageratum Blue Alyssum Mix Verbena Mix Gazania Mix […]
Grow Your Own now looks better than ever!!!
What better way to keep the children busy, than exciting them at an early age with growing there own fruit and vegetables. With lots of different packs now in stock there’s nothing stopping a fusy eater choosing there own plants and seeing them enjoy the fruits of there labor! Pack bedding availability: Lettuce Celery […]
Beautiful Bee friendly Lavender…
We love our lavender here in Norfolk, the perfect coastal plant and bees absolutely adore it!!! With so many different colours around nowadays there so much to choose from! We now have in stock: Blue Rose White Munstead These are in 13cm pots are will be in full flower in the following months Our […]
Norfolk Grown Fresh Herbs Just In!
We now have a fresh supply of new herbs in stock!!!! They smell amazing as you walk past them, really lovely plants 🙂 Here is our Herb availability list Fennel Curry Plant Chives Mint Oregano Catmint Thyme Sage Parsley Basil (limited supply) Marjoram Rosemary (limited supply) All Herbs are sold in a 1 Litre pot […]
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Vegetables Plants in Stock Week 20th April 2020
We have now started to have Vegetables plants come back into stock, please see from the list below of the current varieties of our stock-We can not update this availability daily so your selection can only be based on our availability at the time of your call – 01263 579485, thank you Team GCO Vegetable […]
Beautiful David Austin Rose’s
Own Grown Potted Summer Bedding
How-to Build Your Own Fairy Garden
Self-isolation and home schooling the kids can be overwhelming, a great way to feel like you’re escaping it all is to get out in your garden or tend to your windowsill garden. Creating a Fairy Garden is an ideal form of distraction, as well as encompassing PSHE mind wellbeing lessons. What is a Fairy […]
How to enjoy gardening in a small space
Coronavirus Business Statement
Dear All, Last week saw the UK Government upgrade their response to Coronavirus to the ‘delay’ phase. This stage brings with it new steps that seek to increase the time until the country reaches the viruses peak. I would like to let you know what we are doing as a company to maintain our service […]
No dig gardening – lazy or genius?
If you keep up to date with all things gardening, you may already be familiar with the name Charles Dowding. Charles is well known within the horticultural circuit and has been leading us towards the notion of no dig gardening since 1982. However, for a long time many garden experts have dismissed the notion of […]
Our 5 Top Gardening Trends for 2020
UK Sourced Real Christmas Tree’s
How to choose a real Christmas tree At Christmas time, we all fall into one of two camps…real or artificial tree? If you’re a supporter of the traditional real tree you’re in the right place! Buying a real Christmas tree often marks the start of the season and choosing from the types of trees available […]