Jane Lister, proprietor

Please note our email address has  changed to hoecroft@hotmail.co.uk

Opening times

Thursday- Sunday 10-4pm

Other times by appointment

01362 684206

Welcome to Hoecroft Plants
We supply Ornamental Grasses, Coloured Leaved and Variegated Plants by mail order or you can visit us at our beautiful nursery in North Norfolk

       Stipa tenuissima

 1st July

The new year resolution has not worked I'm afraid. I intended to update the diary every month but as usual its always much nicer being out on the nursery and in the garden!!

With the sun shining at last the seed heads on the grasses are coming into their own. Stipa tenuissima is always a great favourite and  is an emotional pull with the light picking up the jewel like seed head and the tactile waft of movement from the whole plant. You may also like to look out for Stipa lessingiana this grass is slightly taller with a seed head that is a little longer. Restios are often over looked and I particularly like Restio tetraphyllus in combination with the grey leafed Brachyclottis 'Sunshine'.

While we are on the subject of combinations, 'planting companions' is something gardens have been using for a long time often to aid the health of another plant ie. marigolds with tomatoes to ward of white fly. In the flower garden two plants can look lovely in their own right but put together give that extra wow factor as a combination. One such planting campanion is the  gorgeous grass Hordeum Jubatum not always hardy unless you have very well drained soil (it thrives here and seeds happily) the pink tinge as the new seed head comes thru' in combination with the purple Salvia  East Friesland is just delightful.    

A new grass for the nursery is Pennisetum thunbergii 'Red Buttons', not a replacement for the beautiful but not hardy Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum' but a good red when it comes out and a strong structure.

A new shrub growing well in the garden is the grey leafed Phlomis Cashmeriana, pink and grey always work well and this is growing strongly in a protected south facing border.

Please check the diary page for forthcoming events particularly -

 10th August National Garden Scheme 

24th August  NCCPG Norfolk Group Plant Fair 

Restio tetraphyllus

Pennisetum thunbergii 'Red Buttons'

Hordeum Jubatum Salvia nemerosa 'East Friesland'

Phlomis Cashmeriana