More about York Gardening
York Gardening is run by Diana Evans, a qualified gardener. As a student at Askham Bryan College in York, Diana studied under the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) training programme. Askham Bryan has a reputation of excellence across all UK colleges for its RHS courses.
A farmer’s daughter, Diana’s earliest memories are of digging in the earth and making mud pies at her parents’ farm near Sudbury. With a Masters Degree from The University of York and after 26 years in social work, she sensibly re-trained as a qualified gardener and formed York Gardening.
Her recent projects include: garden design for a Victorian townhouse restoration in Holgate; architectural planting for new-build houses; re-planting a Coach-house garden in Heworth; plant maintenance at the Hungate development; rejuvenating a 1930’s garden in Bootham; tending the extensive gardens of a Victoria Villa in YO31.
Other projects include full garden renovation and year-round garden maintenance within central York and local villages. Diana and her team offer gardening services in: Haxby, Wiggington, Clifton, Rawcliffe, Huntington, Stockton-on-Forest, Heworth, Derwenthorpe, Holgate, Heslington, Bishopthorpe, Fulford, Poppleton, Stillingfleet – in fact, to gardens right across the York area.
Diana enjoyed her three years of horticultural studies at Askham Bryan. The college’s RHS Higher Education level courses have a strong focus on science and management within horticulture, soil science and plant science. These RHS qualifications provide accredited gardeners like Diana with a solid academic base to good horticultural practice. You can read more about the RHS Horticulture Courses at Askham Bryan College here.
When not gardening, Diana is tending to her allotment, or visiting open gardens across the UK. For an informal chat about your gardening needs, please call York Gardening on: 01904 422711
Are you using a qualified gardener?
Anyone can claim to be a qualified gardener – a professional gardener with RHS qualifications will be happy to show your their horticultural certificates. And, of course, their Public Liability Insurance Certificate for working in your garden. Don’t employ anyone who isn’t fully insured, it’s too risky.