Great Ouseburn Garden Festival
Great Ouseburn Garden Festival
Sunday 1 June 2025, 11am - 5pm
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Great Ouseburn’s annual garden festival has become a firm favourite in the open gardens calendar for many near and far. Each year hundreds of visitors come to the village to wander through the 15+ gardens, seek inspiration, chat to their owners, enjoy the talks and demonstrations and put their feet up in the café to enjoy much needed home-made refreshments.
The event has been running since 1991 and has grown in size and scope. With our wide promotions we even have visitors crossing the Pennines for a day trip!
Each year we raise money for village causes important to us all (the church, the school, the cricket club, youth group and the village hall). This June the event raised a staggering £14,000 - the record by far!
A fantastic day out in one of North Yorkshire's most picturesque and friendly villages
Open gardens, music, ride-on steam train, entertainment, talks, demonstrations, food and drinks...
This year (2024) we had a spectacular 17 gardens open, varying in shapes and sizes, plus the following highlights:
SCHOOL
Tearoom, Brymor ice creams, use of playground equipment, tombola
EASBY HOUSE
Ride on steam engine
VINE HOUSE
11:30am Gardeners’ Question Time with Sam Shipman, Head Gardener at Beningbrough Hall
12:30 - 2pm Pizza making
2:30pm Wine talk and tasting with Peter Townsend, Dunesforde Vineyard
3:30pm Foam-free flower arranging for all occasions with Fiona Boddy, Ouseburn Meadows Flower Farm
ST MARY’S CHURCH
1.30pm & 3pm - Two half-hour concerts by the Dishforth Military Wives Choir
VICARAGE GARDEN
Plant stall and Pimms
12.15pm & 2pm Two one-hour performances by The Jon Taylor Trio
VILLAGE GREEN
Display of Classic Cars
Bird & Bramble, ‘rustique’ gardenalia
VILLAGE HALL
Café with homemade quiche, salads, cakes and bakes
4pm - Raffle is drawn
PLAYING FIELDS
Junior Cricket
Tickets £7.50 for admission to all of the above. Under 16s free. Cash and card payments accepted.
Free parking and shuttle bus through the village.
