Harrogate indoor and seasonal planting
Indoor Planting, Pots and Planters in Harrogate
Indoor planting displays for Harrogate receptions, restaurants, bars and offices, plus planted pots, troughs, window boxes and hanging baskets changed with the seasons, across Harrogate, Knaresborough, Ripon and Nidderdale. Planted, fed, watered and swapped over, so the display never has an off month.
- 28 yearsGardening since 1998
- NPTCApproved and DBS checked
- BS 3998Tree work standard
- 4.5 from 19Rated on Google
What we do
Indoor displays and colour at the door, changed over before they go over
Indoor planting, pots and planters in Harrogate, for houses, restaurants, bars, cafes, pubs, shops, showrooms, care homes and offices, and out to Knaresborough, Ripon and Nidderdale. Around the area the frontages are expected to be planted. Pubs, hotels, shops and restaurants trade on it, and a doorway with a planter of dead lavender in it is what a customer actually looks at while they wait to be served. Hocus Crocus design, plant and deliver containers and planted displays indoors and out, then come back and keep them going: fed, watered, deadheaded and swapped over as each season finishes.
Town containers have their own difficulty. A Harrogate frontage on an open street is windier and drier than any border behind it, an east-facing doorway gets two hours of sun and a west-facing one gets scorched, and anything at pavement level gets brushed past all day. Further out, on a farmhouse doorway at Summerbridge or a pub terrace up the dale, exposure and frost are the limiting factors instead. Either way a pot has a fixed volume of compost, no groundwater and nowhere for roots to escape to, so it runs out of food after roughly six weeks, dries out in a single day of Yorkshire wind, and then cooks or freezes with the weather. Buying a full basket in May and hoping is not a plan.
Free visit and a written price. No hard sell.
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Amanda M.
Google review
Indoors, pricing and what else we do
Indoor planting is the same job, indoors. Reception areas, showroom floors, care home lounges, restaurant and bar interiors and office breakout spaces all take container planting, and it wants the same rhythm as anything outside. The difference is light. A showroom lit from above and a care home lounge with one north facing window will not keep the same plants alive, so we look at the light levels in the room before choosing anything, lean on the tolerant end of the range for the darker corners, and rotate stock where a position is genuinely too dark to hold a plant long term. Watering, feeding, dusting the foliage and swapping tired plants out all happen on the same scheduled visit as the outside containers, which is usually the cheapest way to have both done. Where the planting belongs to a managed site it sits inside a grounds maintenance schedule. Pots and troughs around an outdoor bar or barbecue area are covered on our outdoor bar and BBQ area planting page.
What it costs depends on how many containers there are, whether you already own them or want them supplied, the size of the planting, how many changeovers a year you want, and whether the watering is on us or on you. A pair of front door pots changed twice a year and a pub terrace changed four times are different arrangements entirely. Every quote is free, in writing, and priced for the year so you know what the frontage costs before the season starts.
E Halliday of Harrogate wrote: “Very friendly and reliable with attention to detail. My garden has never looked better the hanging baskets are lovely! Highly recommended!” Hocus Crocus holds 4.5 stars from 19 Google reviews, has been trading for 28 years, established 1998, and Karen is an award winner in the Best Show Garden category at the Harrogate Flower Show, which is a useful thing to have on the end of a trowel when the brief is seasonal colour.
Containers rarely go in on their own. Where the beds behind them need the same attention that is regular garden maintenance, and where the planters belong to a business frontage or a managed site they usually sit inside a grounds maintenance schedule. We plant and maintain containers for homes and businesses right across Harrogate, east into Knaresborough, north to Ripon, and up the dale in Pateley Bridge, where a High Street with a sweet shop trading on it since 1827 rather sets the standard for a shopfront. Everywhere we cover is listed on our areas we cover page.
On the round
What indoor planting, pots and planters covers
Indoor planting
Containers and planted displays for reception areas, showroom floors, care home lounges, restaurant and bar interiors and office breakout spaces. Plants picked for the light the room actually gets, then watered, fed and swapped on the same round as the outside.
Design and delivery
A scheme chosen for the position, the light and the building, planted up in the right compost and delivered ready to stand where it is going.
Seasonal changeovers
Spring bulbs, summer bedding, then autumn and winter structure. Containers are swapped over before they go over, not several weeks after.
Window boxes made to measure
Boxes commissioned to fit the actual sill, so a period frontage or a stone cottage gets something that looks built in rather than bought in.
Hanging baskets
Planted, hung, fed and watered through the season, then taken down and replanted once the display has finished rather than left to brown off.
Feeding and watering rounds
Containers run out of food in weeks and water in a day. We feed, water, deadhead and trim on the round so the display keeps going.
Pubs, shops and offices
Frontage planting for businesses, kept looking right from across the street with nobody on your staff having to think about it.
Pots and planters
Planting we have put in
Karen's own photographs of real jobs.
Question not answered below? Call Karen on 07816 779 064.
Before you book
Indoor planting and planter questions we get asked
How often do the pots need changing over?
Do you supply the pots or plant up mine?
Can you water them for us?
Do you do planters for pubs, shops and offices?
What actually survives in a pot up here?
Do you plant bulbs for spring?
Do you do indoor planting for offices, showrooms, care homes and restaurants?
How do you choose plants for a room with poor light?
How often would you visit to look after indoor displays?
Where we work
Covering Harrogate, Knaresborough, Ripon and the whole of Nidderdale.
Karen is based near Knaresborough and works right across Harrogate and its villages, out to Knaresborough and Ripon, and up the whole of Nidderdale. Not on the list? Just ask.
- Harrogate
- Knaresborough
- Ripon
- Killinghall
- Hampsthwaite and Birstwith
- Boroughbridge
- Summerbridge and Dacre Banks
- Pateley Bridge
- Wetherby
Want the frontage looking right all year?
Free visit, a scheme picked for the position and a written price for the year. Call Karen on 07816 779 064 or email karen@hocuscrocus.com.