Garden Centre Overstrand

At the heart of our quaint North Norfolk garden centre lies a humble handpicked team with a passion for horticulture, and an ambition to live a greener lifestyle. Our garden centre is a serene oasis located in the small coastal village of Overstrand, a mere ten-minute stroll away from the shores of Overstrand beach. The garden centre is a place where nature and nurture come together, offering a stunning range of indoor and outdoor plants, locally made products, and produce.

We aim to source the majority of our plants from the UK, and our focus on sustainability at Garden Centre Overstrand is an ode to our love of the local area and invites the community into a larger conversation of supporting not only our local environment but our local people too. Our location is something special and we love to share it with our visitors. The garden centre is a place where you can escape the hustle and bustle of daily life and reconnect with nature.

Explore Our Wild Beauty

Our visitors love a stroll along the clifftop when they swing by to see us, often followed by a cuppa and a treat at our Potting Shed tearoom. If you want to potter around the area during your visit to our garden centre, our helpful team would be delighted to give you some local tips! Overstrand offers a historic and natural wildness that shouldn't be missed. We encourage our visitors to take a moment to appreciate the beauty of the area, to breathe in the fresh air, and to enjoy the peaceful atmosphere that our garden centre offers.

Relax and Enjoy Our In-House Cafe

With a simple yet yummy menu and all the traditional treats you'd expect to find at a garden centre, our cafe is the perfect place to sit back and enjoy our friendly and cosy atmosphere. Well-behaved furry friends are welcome too! Our cafe is a place where you can unwind, recharge, and indulge in a delicious cup of coffee or a slice of homemade cake. Our team is always ready to serve you with a smile and make your visit to our garden centre an unforgettable experience.

Planting Calendar

In the name of being kinder to our planet, and living off the land, we have created a planting calendar for you to know what to plant and when all year round. It's time to get your garden acquainted with your kitchen. Download our planting calendar to start planning your sustainable garden today!

9 Easy Steps to a Sustainable Garden

We believe that creating a sustainable garden is easier than you think. Here are our top tips to help you get started:

1. Vivacious & Vibrant: A fun and easy way to welcome more biodiversity into your garden is to experiment with colour. Introducing flowers and plants that show off an array of different shades will attract bugs galore and that, our friends, is the secret to a blooming good garden!

2. Hedges for Edges: Fences are great for keeping our furry friends in and our nosey neighbours out. But are they good for a sustainable garden? The answer is no. A natural enclosure is far better for attracting nesting birds and wildlife. Depending on your taste, it might even be a preferable view too!

3. Let it Grow: No doubt, we all find this a relentless task: mowing the grass. Although a well-maintained lawn might look like suburban utopia, it's actually not that great for the environment. They can clash with native ecosystems, and if cut too short, they can lead to unsightly moss. Sustaining a pea-green lawn also requires a lot of water. So, put your hose away and lay off the mower.

4. Low, Ground Covering Foliage: Covering vegetation is a fantastic and natural way to prevent the intrusion of those pesky weeds, as well as offering nooks and crannies for insects and small animals to hide in. Did you know that lizards, snakes, and toads are great for your garden? If you don't mind these scaly vertebrates hanging around, they snack on the insects that are not so helpful and serve to aid biodiversity.

5. Harvest Your Rainwater: Water butts, barrels, buckets, whatever you can get your hands on. When it rains, be sure to collect it, and recycle it back into the earth. It's a far kinder alternative to watering your garden from the mains.

6. Bug Hotels: Invite the bugs, worms, and bees to stay. Worms are brilliant at keeping soil aerated and circulating nutrients, naturally cultivating the soil, making it nice and rich. And, we need our yellow fuzzy friends to keep our vegetable patches pollinated and thriving. So, welcome them in.

7. Easy with the Slabs: Slabbing, paving, and brickwork is undoubtedly an aesthetically pleasing, low-maintenance solution for many gardeners. But go minimal, and allow the earth beneath to breathe. It can impede water drainage and let's face it, is just another thing to keep clean or sweep!

8. Compost, Compost, Compost: Potentially one of the greenest (and rewarding) steps in our guide. It reduces landfill waste, greenhouse gas emissions, conserves water. We could go on and on. The nutritional properties of homemade compost are said to be far superior to many off-the-shelf comparisons. We stock a diverse range of organic, peat-free options though if a compost heap is not feasible.

9. Hard Graft Over Chemicals: If you can, pick up your tools and get yanking. Using chemical assistance to rid your garden of weeds can actually cause more harm than good. Sprinkling your plants with these toxic products can kill parts of your garden that you don't want to kill!