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Home Grown Gardens

Harrogate based Home Grown Gardens works with you and nature to give you the surroundings you want to enjoy.

We know how to encourage plants and wildlife, you know your garden, and we work together to keep everyone happy.

Putting the right plants in the right place at the right time saves you money and anguish, and allows the plants to flourish for you, and nature, to enjoy.

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Planting design

Many people feel their garden is a graveyard of loved and lost plants, and all that is left is the label. Putting the right plants in the right place means they will flourish. We ask you what you like, what colours you prefer, and find plants that will suit you, your budget, your time, and your garden.

Harrogate has heavy clay soil, which some plants love and others don't. You can work with this or spend time and money modifying the soil to accommodate a wider range of plants.

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Garden design

You may have lived with your garden for years, and now fancy a change, or maybe you are in a new build, with no garden to speak of. Yet.

By talking through ideas and looking at pictures of what you'd like, we can put you in contact with competent landscapers to deliver your lovely garden.

Contact Home Grown Gardens
0790 056 7904
Garden maintenance

Keeping a garden looking good may only need a half-yearly snip and prune, or you might prefer some more regular TLC.

Qualifications and Continuous Professional Development courses

  • How to design a show garden
    Yorkshire School of Garden Design, Nov 2022
  • Garden Masterclass
    Beningbrough Hall with Andy Sturgeon, October 2019
  • Garden Masterclass
    Stillingfleet, Autumn 2018
  • Plantsmanship and planting design
    Skipwith Hall with Jane Cordingley, Sept 2009 - June 2011
  • Botanical Art
    RHS Harlow Carr, July 2009
  • Garden Design Certificate
    RHS Harlow Carr/Leeds Met, Sept 2008 - June 2009
  • City & Guilds Level 1 in Garden Design
    RHS Harlow Carr, Sept 2007 - June 2008
  • Plantsmanship and planting design
    RHS Harlow Carr with Jane Cordingley, Sept 2006 - June 2007
  • RHS Level 2 Horticulture (Commended)
    Harlow Carr, Sept 2005 - June 2006
  • Bsc Psychology
    Sheffield University, 1980

Community engagement

  • Volunteer and trustee (2012-2021)
    Horticap, Otley Rd - Volunteer 2007 - present
  • Committee member
    Harrogate Biodiversity Advisory Group - Sept 2007 - present
  • Committee member
    Pinewoods Conservation Group - 2010 - present
  • Gardening Volunteer
    Harrogate Hospital and Community Charity - 2014-present
  • Committee member
    Harrogate in Bloom - November 2022 - present
  • Gardening volunteer
    Wellspring Therapy & Training, Starbeck, 2018 - 2023
  • Volunteer gardener
    Allotment supervisor Harrogate Grammar School, 2010 - 2019
  • Volunteer gardener
    Allotment supervisor Harrogate High School, 2015 - 2020

Awards