Join our experts to celebrate UK Moth Night. Wrap up warmly to set some traps and see some samples of what we are likely to find. Soup and hot drinks available.

This event will begin at 7pm, so we would suggest arriving by 6:45pm.

This event is now sold out.

Take a dusk walk in the arboretum armed with a bat detector and accompanied by our expert Simon Bassindale. The noise we pick up will help us identify the species that we find.

Please wrap up warmly and bring a torch!

This event is sold out.

Join our birding expert, Andy Chapman, for a relaxing stroll around the arboretum spotting and listening out for the bird life that is so abundant here.

Cost: Adult £5, Child £2.50 in addition to normal admission.

Booking required. Call 01653 648598 or email visit@yorkshirearboretum.org

An early-morning walk with bird expert Andy Chapman to see, hear and learn more about the arboretum's songbirds. Then back to the Visitor Centre for bacon sandwiches and hot drinks!

Adult £10, Child £7.50

This event is now fully booked.

An early-morning walk with bird expert Andy Chapman to see, hear and learn more about the arboretum's songbirds. Then back to the Visitor Centre for bacon sandwiches and hot drinks!

Adult £10, Child £7.50

Booking essential - please order your tickets below, call the Visitor Centre on 01653 648598 or email us at visit@yorkshirearboretum.org

Join our birding expert, Andy Chapman, for a relaxing stroll around the arboretum spotting and listening out for the bird life that is so abundant here.

Cost: Adult £5, Child £2.50 in addition to normal admission.

Booking required. Call 01653 648598 or email visit@yorkshirearboretum.org

National tree week has been running since 1975, just before George Howard and James Russell started developing the arboretum as we know it today. On this walk with our director, John Grimshaw will show you around and explain how the site has developed over the years.

Normal admission applies.

Have you ever wished that you could identify trees better? In this day course our director and expert plantsman, John Grimshaw, will show you how to identify some of our broadleaved trees, both native and more unusual, when they are not in leaf. He will also be able to advise on the best trees for your garden, whether large or small, wet or dry, the best time to plant them and how to care for them.

£40 per adult.

Light lunch and refreshments included.

10% discount for RHS members.

Combined with a unique display of artworks from the 16th-21st centuries, our Director John Grimshaw shows how botanical art and reproduction methods have evolved over time.

Complimentary tea and coffee from 7:15. Talk starts at 7:30pm. 

Free but donations welcome. 

This event is now fully-booked.

A fun-packed day for children aged 5-11, with seasonal indoor and outdoor nature inspired activities and crafts.

Please note that an accompanying adult must stay for the session.

£7.50 per child.

Booking via the Howardian Hills website.

Join in a hunt for fungi around the arboretum, see what you can find and get your specimens identified by our expert, Malcom Greaves. Will it be colourful, will it be unusual, who can tell?

Adult £7.50, Child £5 plus admission. SOLD OUT

Booking required - please book below, call the Visitor Centre on 01653 648598 or email us at visit@yorkshirearboretum.org

The final meeting in a series of seven tours, each of which explores a particular aspect of the life of trees.

The Arboretum is always busy in October because people love the autumn colour of trees. On this tour we'll look at the differences in colour of different trees at this time of year, and at the overall effect of their contributions to the landscape.

We'll meet in the cafe at 10:30am and then set out to walk at 11am.

 Free  

(Normal admission applies)

Members and friends are invited to mark the launch of Threads through Nature - an exhibition by local mixed media and textile artist Justine Warner who has produced a body of work based on the Yorkshire Arboretum during her year-long residency.

Meet Justine and enjoy complimentary refreshments.

Free

Booking required. Please call the Visitor Centre on 01653 648598 or email us at visit@yorkshirearboretum.org

The benefits of urban trees are well known - but which species are most suitable? Henrik Sjöman from Gothenburg Botanic Garden, Sweden, discusses how he is looking for the best to create a diverse and resilient urban forest.

Complimentary tea and coffee from 7:15. Talk starts at 7:30pm. 

Free but donations welcome. 

Booking required please. Please book below, call the Visitor Centre on 01653 648598 or email us.

Riz Reyes is a young Filipino-American, making a name for himself in horticulture there. This will be his first UK talk, covering the exciting garden scene in his home city of Seattle.

Complimentary tea and coffee from 7:15. Talk starts at 7:30pm. 

Free but donations welcome. 

Booking required please. Please book below, call the Visitor Centre on 01653 648598 or email us.

The sixth in a series of seven tours, each of which explores a particular aspect of the life of trees.

There is still a lot to learn from the trees in our collection. For this tour, you are invited to tell us what in particular you'd be interested to learn about and we can try and find the answers when we go out.

We'll meet in the cafe at 10:30am and then set out to walk at 11am.

 Free  

(Normal admission applies)

Take a dusk walk in the arboretum armed with a bat detector and accompanied by our expert Simon Bassindale. The noises we pick up will help us identify the species that we find.

Please wrap up warmly and bring a torch!

Adults £5, Child £3

Booking required. To reserve your space please click on the link below, ring the Visitor Centre on 01653 648598 or email us at visit@yorkshirearboretum.org

The fourth in a series of seven tours, each of which explores a particular aspect of the life of trees.

This tour explores the world of conifers, trees that bear cones. They evolved hundreds of millions of years ago before the broad-leaved trees that we know better and often prefer, but looking today at the collection of all the conifers with their magnificent architecture and colour will change your view of them.

We'll meet in the cafe at 10:30am and then set out to walk at 11am.

 Free  

(Normal admission applies)

A weekend celebration of wildflowers.

Explore our meadows on a guided walk with experts John Grimshaw and Alastair Fitter who will help us identify what we find.

Free

(Normal admission applies)

A weekend celebration of wildflowers.

Explore our meadows on a guided walk with experts John Grimshaw and Alastair Fitter who will help us identify what we find. We'll also be counting the wild orchids and collecting wildflower seeds. Participants are welcome to take some collected seed home with them.

Walks at 11am & 2pm

Free

(Normal admission applies)

Join us for a special evening with drinks and canapes at Sleightholmedale Lodge.

The flower filled walled garden, meadows and terraces of this hundred-year-old family garden on the edge of the moors make it a horticultural hotspot of rare charm and beauty. 

We are grateful to Patrick and Natasha James for hosting this fundraising evening.

£20 per adult

£15 for Open Gardens Season ticket holders

Booking required. To reserve your space please ring the Visitor Centre on 01653 648598 or email us at visit@yorkshirearboretum.org

Join award winning poets Mark Waldron, Catherine Ayers and others for a midsummer's evening of poetry reading in our beautiful surroundings. 

The arboretum will be open from 6pm for those wishing to take a stroll, with the option of joining Bernie Cullen, our recent Poet in Residence, for a brief poetry walk to visit some of the sites that have inspired her writing.

Mark Waldron was born in New York and grew up in London. He began writing poetry in his early 40s and published two collections with Salt, 'The Brand New Dark' (2008) and 'The Itchy Sea '(2011), His third collection, 'Meanwhile, Trees', was published by Bloodaxe in 2016.  He was selected as a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society in 2014. Hear him reading 'All my Poems are Advertisements for Me' from his latest collection here. The arboretum will be open

Catherine Ayres is a teacher from Northumberland. Her poems have been published in a number of magazines and anthologies. In 2015 she came third in the Hippocrates Prize and in 2016 she won the Elbow Room Poetry Prize. Her collection 'Amazon' was published by Indigo Dreams in 2016. In her debut collection, Catherine explores illness and life beyond it, with honesty, humour, and a melancholy optimism. These poems skirt ancient myths to arrive in hospital wards, laybys and lakes. This is poetry for anyone who has ever lost their way and found an unexpected view. 

£10 per adult Includes a free glass of wine or a soft drink and nibbles.

Booking required please. To reserve your space book beow, ring the Visitor Centre on 01653 648598 or email us here.

The third in a series of seven tours, each of which explores a particular aspect of the life of trees.

Some of the trees' ancestors have been here in this country for thousands of years while others have only recently arrived; the Yorkshire Arboretum is a place of extraordinary diversity. Today's tour will explore the different origins of our trees, looking at the tiny proportion that are native and finding out how the others got here.

We'll meet in the cafe at 10:30am and then set out to walk at 11am.

 Free  

(Normal admission applies)

One of the world's foremost botanists, former Keeper of the Kew Herbarium and Director of the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, Professor David Mabberley celebrates the participants in Captain Cook's voyage 250 years ago and the great artwork that resulted.

Tea and coffee from 7:15. Talk starts at 7:30pm. 

Tickets £5 per person. 

Booking required please. Please book below, call the Visitor Centre on 01653 648598 or email us.

Our members have been busy propagating plants from their own gardens for sale in aid of the Arboretum. Pick up a bargain or maybe a mystery plant! 

All welcome.

Free

(Normal admission applies)

All ticket proceeds from today go to the National Garden Scheme, supporting 9 UK charities including MacMillan, Marie Curie, The Carers' Trust, Perennial and the MS Society.

Normal admission.

One in a series of seven tours, each of which explores a particular aspect of the life of trees.

This session will focus on how trees reproduce. We know some trees have beautiful flowers, but actually all have to have flowers or they wouldn't be here. As in animals, there are male and female partners, but they don't always live together, and often the flowers are not very obvious; this tour looks at what's going on to see how they do it.

We'll meet in the cafe at 10:30am and then set out to walk at 11am.

 Free  

(Normal admission applies)

As Chief Plant Health Officer for Defra, Professor Nicola Spence is uniquely well-placed to tell us about the ever-growing threats to our plants from pests and diseases. Be prepared to be terrified!

Complimentary tea and coffee from 7:15. Talk starts at 7:30pm. 

Free but donations welcome. 

Booking required please. Please book below, call the Visitor Centre on 01653 648598 or email us.