Our Wildlife-Friendly Open Gardens 2026
Discover Gardens Bursting with Wildlife
Be inspired by this unique opportunity to visit some of Yorkshire’s most wildlife-friendly gardens as many of our Wildlife Gardening Award winners open their outdoor spaces to the public for a limited time only.
It’s time to celebrate our wildlife-friendly gardens!
Since we launched our Wildlife Gardening Award three years ago, we have rewarded over 700 green-fingered Yorkshire folk for their incredible work to create wildlife havens in their back yards, gardens and community spaces.
We are immensely proud of how wildlife-friendly Yorkshire’s gardens are. To celebrate them in style our wildlife-friendly open gardens are back for 2026 and we’d love even more wildlife gardening award winners to open their gates to help us celebrate our 80th anniversary and inspire even more people to garden for wildlife to help bring about nature’s recovery.
Our 2026 Wildlife-Friendly Open Gardens will run from Saturday 2nd May to Sunday 10th May – click the link to sign up to take part.
Sign up to take part
More information about the programme is coming soon.
Apply for our Wildlife Gardening Award
Feeling inspired to go wild for wildlife in your garden this year?
Whether you have a large garden or a small balcony, your outside space can provide a vital stepping-stone across the landscape for wildlife, and form part of a network of natural havens linking urban green spaces with the countryside.
With an estimated 24 million gardens in the UK, the way we care for our outdoor space can make a BIG difference to the natural world.