Garden designer Mark Gregory becomes vice president of the Yorkshire Society

Mark Gregory. Picture: Tony Johnson. | jpimedia

Garden designer Mark Gregory has become vice president of The Yorkshire Society, following in the footsteps of Sir Michael Parkinson, Sir Geoffrey Boycott and the Archbishop of York.

Thanks to his highly praised work at RHS Chelsea Flower Show over more than 30 years - in particular his gold medal-winning design of the Welcome to Yorkshire Garden last year - Mr Gregory was honoured with the accolade through a letter from The Lord St Oswald DL, who is rresident and a vice chairman of the society.

Speaking on his new title, Mr Gregory said: “This is a huge honour and means so much to me. I’m a very proud Yorkshireman and the work I’ve done at Chelsea Flower Show to help raise the profile of this stunning county has been my pride and joy.

“The two Gold medal winning Chelsea gardens in 2018 and 2019 had my heart and soul poured into them and winning the BBC People’s Choice Award for both of these Welcome to Yorkshire gardens told me we’d touched viewers’ hearts too. They were undoubtedly massive passion projects for me.

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Reaching its 40th year, the Yorkshire Society exists to celebrate and promote "everything that’s great about Yorkshire".

Mr Gregory is currently working alongside his Landform Consultants team to build three new gardens at RHS Wisley over the next 15 months. 