York Gate Garden

16/06/2026

We are delighted to congratulate Perennial Chairman Paul Rochford on being awarded an MBE in the King's Birthday Honours for services to horticulture 🌿

Paul has long been a strong advocate for the people who work across horticulture, and this honour reflects his contribution to the industry.

Commenting on the award, Paul said:
"This is a great honour which I am very proud to accept. I am always keen to promote the importance of the horticulture industry and I hope that this award will help to emphasise the vital role that it plays in our lives. We need to value, support and encourage the people working in green industries and I think that this award will help me to continue to highlight the significance of their contribution."

Congratulations, Paul, on this well-deserved recognition.

https://perennial.org.uk/about-us/our-people/

15/06/2026

09/06/2026

Be our Summer Facebook header 📸🌿

We love seeing York Gate through your eyes. If you've visited recently, share your favourite landscape size photo from the garden in the comments below and we'll choose our favourite to feature as our Summer Facebook header 💚

06/06/2026

This Volunteers’ Week, we'd like to say a huge thank you to the wonderful people who give their time to York Gate 🌿

Whether it's welcoming visitors, helping in the café, shop and plant sales area, supporting the garden team, or sharing their knowledge of the garden, our volunteers contribute so much to life at York Gate.

Their enthusiasm, dedication and care help make the garden the welcoming place it is today.

To all our volunteers, thank you for everything you do and for being such an important part of the York Gate community 💚

Find out more about the garden: https://perennial.org.uk/gardens/gardens-menu/york-gate-garden/

05/06/2026

We’re excited to share that Helensbank House is opening in support of Perennial - Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society through Scotland's Gardens Scheme 🌿

Open by arrangement from 13 June to 27 September, Helensbank House near Alloa is around 35 minutes from Glasgow and has plenty for garden lovers to enjoy.

Set within an 18th-century walled garden, highlights include a Cedar of Lebanon, reputedly planted in 1750 by the sea captain who built the house, along with the National Collection of Portland Roses.

Visits are by arrangement, so be sure to get in touch and book ahead: https://scotlandsgardens.org/helensbank/

02/06/2026

This month's Perennial Gardens update comes from our friends at Fullers Mill Garden in Suffolk 🌿

Thanks to the dedication of their volunteers, Fullers Mill now has a limited stock of Phlox ‘Burgi’, a beautiful historic variety with links to Christopher Lloyd of Great Dixter and the Burgess family of Wye, Kent.

Beautifully scented, long flowering and wonderfully mildew resistant, this elegant violet-purple Phlox is rarely available. The story of how it came to be propagated at Fullers Mill is a fascinating one.

Read more here: https://perennial.org.uk/gardens/garden-news/the-serendipitous-bloom/

Perennial - Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society

31/05/2026

There's always something to discover at York Gate, from winding paths and hidden corners to bees among the flowers and wildlife in the meadow 🐝🌻🐞🦗

In the latest piece from our Writer in Residence, Andrew Jackson, he reflects on why gardens can be such special places for children, and how a love of gardening often begins with simple moments of curiosity and wonder.

Read more here: https://perennial.org.uk/gardens/garden-news/growing-together/

There is something wonderfully hopeful about children in gardens. Perhaps it is because children instinctively understand what many adults forget, that a garden is not simply a place of maintenance or display, but somewhere alive with possibility. A garden is a place for discovery. For muddy hands a...

21/05/2026

Gen-Z: York Gate is open Bank Holiday Monday. No cap 🌿
Millennial: I’d bring a cap, it’s going to be hot ☀️

Garden, café, plant sales and gift shop all open 10am–3.30pm.
https://perennial.org.uk/gardens/gardens-menu/york-gate-garden/ -essentials

20/05/2026

This World Bee Day, we’re celebrating the bees and other wildlife that make their home at York Gate 🌿🐝

From ground-nesting bees in the Sand Garden to butterflies, birds and mammals across the meadow and woodland edges, the garden is full of quiet activity at this time of year.

Nature in our gardens is also being celebrated through this year’s RHS - Royal Horticultural Society Partner Garden of the Year competition. If you’ve enjoyed visiting York Gate, you can vote for us here: https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/partner-gardens/rhs-partner-garden-of-the-year