AN EXPLOSION of colour has greeted visitors to this year’s Harrogate Spring Flower Show.

The annual event, which got underway on Thursday and runs until Sunday, has already attracted thousands of people.

Top honours in the 2018 Harrogate Spring Flower Show Gardens has gone to Thirsk-based designers, Colour Your Garden.

The Garden of Translucence won a Premier Gold Award and Best in Show with a contemporary design reminding visitors that urban architecture can still be light and translucent.

The garden features a series of steel mesh columns, clipped cube and multi-stem evergreen planting, and is animated by bubbling water features.

Meanwhile, students from Askham Bryan College, near York, were awarded silver for their garden, Tranquil Yorkshire.