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.

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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.

Indoor planting kept topped up on a car showroom floor beside the cars

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.

  • Tall interior planters of palm and trailing greenery maintained in a car showroom

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?

Twice a year is the minimum that looks intentional: a summer scheme and a winter one. Three or four changeovers give you spring bulbs and an autumn display as well, which is what most pubs, shops and front doors on a busy street end up settling on once they see the difference.

Do you supply the pots or plant up mine?

Either. We are happy to plant and maintain containers you already own, which is usually the cheaper route and keeps the look of the building consistent. Where you want new ones we can supply and deliver them planted, including window boxes commissioned to fit the actual sill.

Can you water them for us?

Yes, where the visit frequency makes sense for the site. Containers dry out far faster than borders, especially in wind, so watering is agreed up front as either your job or ours. We also choose compost and planting that cope better with a missed day when the round is fortnightly.

Do you do planters for pubs, shops and offices?

Yes. We have planted a shop front flower bed display for a Harrogate shop and replanted the outdoor seating area at the Foundry Project bar and restaurant in Harrogate. Business frontage planting is quoted for the year and changed over on a schedule, so it never sits there looking tired.

What actually survives in a pot up here?

Anything that tolerates wind and a dry root run. Pelargoniums, petunias, begonias and salvias for summer, violas, pansies and wallflowers for the cold months, and skimmia, heuchera, euonymus and ivy for winter structure. Ericaceous compost goes in for anything lime hating on our acidic ground.

Do you plant bulbs for spring?

Yes, and they go in during autumn, which is the part most people miss. Crocus, narcissi and tulips planted between September and November give you the first colour of the year with no work in it, and they can be layered underneath the winter planting in the very same container.

Do you do indoor planting for offices, showrooms, care homes and restaurants?

Yes. Reception areas, showroom floors, care home lounges, restaurant and bar interiors and office breakout spaces all take planted containers, and we supply, plant and maintain them alongside the outdoor pots on the same visit. It is quoted for the year like everything else, so there is one price and one contact rather than a separate indoor arrangement.

How do you choose plants for a room with poor light?

By measuring the light in the room rather than the look of the catalogue. Bright positions near glass carry far more than a corridor or an internal corner, so the darker spots get the tolerant end of the range and are checked more often. Where a position genuinely cannot hold a plant long term we rotate the display rather than pretend otherwise, and we say so at the quote instead of after the first one dies.

How often would you visit to look after indoor displays?

On the same schedule as the outside planting wherever we can, because it keeps the cost down. Watering, feeding, deadheading, dusting the foliage and swapping tired stock happen on the visit, and the frequency is set by the site and the planting rather than sold as a standard package.

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.