Behind the scenes of Gardens

Year-round beauty in the Harrogate district
Harrogate is a floral district with an abundance of gardens to visit that bring colour and splendour all year round. Here are just some of the horticultural highlights that you can enjoy across the seasons.

Year-round beauty in the Harrogate district
Harrogate is a floral district with an abundance of gardens to visit that bring colour and splendour all year...

See How Our Gardens Grow - Spring
The Stray in Harrogate is awash with crocuses and stunning cherry blossom as the tree lined avenues that criss-cross...

See How our Gardens Grow - Winter
RHS Garden Harlow Carr is at its most magical as low light levels and frosts highlight its natural shapes...

See How our Gardens Grow - Summer
Newby Hall Gardens’s magnificent double herbaceous border is at its best in summer. One of the longest double borders in Europe it...

Jonathan Moseley explores some of our glorious gardens
We invited celebrated floral designer Jonathan Moseley to explore two of our glorious gardens for the first time, and...

What's new at the Himalayan Garden & Sculpture Park
Here in the beautiful countryside between Masham and Ripon, the Himalayan Garden and Sculpture Park at Grewelthorpe is a...
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Harrogate Events

Harrogate Spring Flower Show
Your garden is as personal as your fingerprint – no two are the same. After two years of turmoil, lockdowns and isolation, the 2022 Harrogate Spring Flower Show is set to explore our unique and growing connection with plants, flowers and gardening. The show is staged at the Great Yorkshire Showground and kicks off the UK’s national gardening calendar on 21 – 24 April. The central theme, Grow Your Home, will celebrate all things horticultural...

Knaresborough Duck Race
This annual New Year's Day favourite in Knaresborough offer a fun family day out a well as the chance...
Boxing Day Pilgrimage
Eucharist for St Stephen’s Day and Pilgrimage to Fountains Abbey, retracing the steps of the abbey’s founders centuries ago...

The Knaresborough Nativity
Live in Knaresborough market square as night falls on Christmas Eve, Mary and Joseph will make their way to...
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