AWARD winning Parcevall Hall Gardens in Skyreholme, near Appletreewick, reopens to the public on Friday (March 29).

The gardens, which enjoyed record visitor numbers for the last two years, despite not always the best of weather conditions, will be open for the season from now until the end of October.

Parcevall Hall Gardens currently features on a promotional film by Historic Houses. Head gardener Phill Nelson said: “It’s an excellent piece of promotion for Historic Houses and we are delighted to be seen in the company of some of the UK’s finest heritage properties”.

New this season is a propagation house on the site of the former greenhouse, made possible with the financial support of the Friends of Parcevall Hall Gardens. It means that Phill and his team will be able to propagate both seeds and vegetative cuttings which will help greatly increase the stock of woody plants at very little cost, as well as growing herbaceous perennials from seed.

Visitors from this weekend will be able to enjoy a large variety of spring flowering shrubs, including rhododendrons and cherry trees. There are also hellebores and trilliums in flower as well as the start of the alpines in the rock garden, and the daffodils that are just starting to put in a display that will last for the next three or four weeks.

The tea room also reopens on Friday and is open from 10am to 4pm. Parcevall Hall Gardens is open from 10am to 6pm, last admission 5pm, until the end of October.