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Jun 2023
Gallery: Great Ouseburn displays its dazzling gardens
Great Ouseburn may be small but it showed yesterday it has some of the finest gardens in the Harrogate district.
Sixteen private gardens opened for the day as part of the village's annual garden festival.
They included a wildflower meadow, quirky modern designs, cottage gardens and even one small courtyard garden that doesn't get any sun for almost half the year.
The festival has grown to become about more than beautiful gardens: there were also concerts by the vocal ensemble Camerata Sonora in St Mary's Church, a cookery demonstration, wine tasting, gardeners' question time and displays of Morgan cars and alpacas on the village green.
With cricket on the playing fields and tea and cakes in the school, it made for a quintessentially English experience that even included a downpour, which fortunately did not take place until five minutes before the event was due to end.
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The festival, which raises money for village causes, was the latest of many midsummer open gardens events taking place across the district.
Knaresborough and Marton-cum-Grafton are holding events this weekend.
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Here are some photos from Great Ouseburn yesterday.
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