The Harrogate Autumn Flower Show starts today and following a year of unusual weather conditions with the hot spring and cool summer, the show is likely to be even more spectacular than normal.
Here’s a list of highlights of this year’s show:
- Garden Border design competition – held for the first time this year, designers and gardeners will be entering their borders hoping to impress the judges and win an award
- Giant Vegetable Show – huge vegetables on show, you’d be amazed!
- Heaviest Onion Competition – taking place today, Friday 16 September, over the years the world record has been smashed on 9 occasions at the Harrogate Flower Show – will this year see another record set?
Check out this amazing picture on the Harrogate Flower Show’s homepage of a recent giant onion
- The highly popular Vegetable Championships – check out the perfect vegetable in this closely-fought competition
- The North of England Horticultural Society’s Fruit Show, back by popular demand – lots of fruits on show competing for prestigious awards
- Kitchen Garden LIVE – terrific demonstrations of vegetable & fruit growing with plenty of advice on offer from the experts
- Cookery Theatre – lots of demonstrations from food experts and top chefs, using the very best of local Yorkshire produce
- Specialist Societies Marquee – fabulous flower displays in Harrogate’s superb and highly regarded marquee
- Floral Art – with demonstrations of flower arranging plus lots of exhibitors featuring their spectacular displays in the Floral Art marquee
- The Garden Roadshow – have your gardening questions answered by the Garden Roadshow team
- Photo Competition – don’t forget to take your best photographs to the Garden Roadshow marquee to be in with a chance to win a prize
- Food Marquee – full to the brim with fresh, local produce including meat, dairy, wines, spirits and treats
- Gifts & Crafts – plenty of outdoors and gardening stalls, handpicked by the Harrogate team
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