The Garden Media Guild Awards (GMG) celebrate the best of horticultural communications, recognising the talent, skill and inspiration of garden media professionals. Trade event, open to GMG members and non-members.
The after-dark spectacle of lights at RHS Garden Wisley for the festive season. Tickets must be booked in advance.
For the 2024 NGS Annual Lecture, Fergus Garrett of Great Dixter reveals how vital biodiversity can thrive in anybody’s cultivated garden patch, using evidence gathered from the world-famous garden that he looks after.
An uplifting evening of Christmas celebrations at Llandaff Cathedral in Llandaff, Cardiff. Reading by rugby legend Sir Gareth Edwards, alongside musical performances by Rebecca Evans CBE soprano and Cowbridge Male Voice Choir. Funds raised will help nurture the wellbeing of people spending time in Horatio’s Garden Wales at the Welsh Spinal Cord Injury and Neuro Rehabilitation Centre in University Hospital Llandough.
Five floral designers transform the Garden Museum into an environmentally-friendly floral winter wonderland. Winter Flowers Week at the Garden Museum is a celebration of seasonal flowers and foliage through immersive festive installations.
Taking place in the enchanting St Mary Abbots Parish Church in London, the concert will feature readings by special guests including actor Dominic West, writer Robert Macfarlane, broadcaster Fi Glover, President of Horatio’s Garden The Countess of Radnor, Young Committee member and former patient Pia Gupta, and performer Fra Fee. All funds raised will help support those affected by spinal injury this Christmas and beyond.
Enchanting evening of Christmas celebrations, held at the magical St Malachy’s Church, Hillsborough, Co Down. The charity’s second Christmas Carol Concert in Northern Ireland, organised to bring the community together to celebrate Horatio’s Garden Northern Ireland and help support those affected by spinal injury over Christmas and beyond. Special guests include Andy Sturgeon, designer of Horatio’s Garden Northern Ireland with music by the Ulster Consort.
The start of the tulip season is celebrated every year on National Tulip Day in Amsterdam on the Museum Square in the centre of Amsterdam. From this day, cut tulips are promoted at florists across the country. Visitors are allowed to pick tulips for free in a specially designed tulip pick-up garden. There will be around 200.000 tulips in the free pick-up garden. Note, the tulips that visitors can pick in designated tulip garden are grown indoors. The tulip fields only start to bloom at the end of March.
Somerset House presents SOIL: The World at Our Feet, a landmark exhibition unearthing the wonder of soil, its unbreakable bond to all life, and the vital role it plays in our planet’s future.
The world’s leading trade fair for horticulture, with exhibitors from all over the world present their innovative products and services in the fields of plants, technology, floristry and garden features. The defining themes for this year are climate change and sustainability.
Strictly trade only, the Garden Press Event is jointly organised by the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) and the Garden Industry Manufacturer’s Association (GIMA), gives businesses the chance to network in person with members of the garden press and showcase new products, themes and stories.
The PHS Philadelphia Flower Show is the nation’s largest and longest-running horticultural event and fundraiser featuring stunning displays by the world’s premier floral, garden, and landscape designers.
Rare opportunity to see John Morley’s paintings and pastels of flowers, fruits and plants – many have never been publicly displayed, in his first solo exhibition in over 30 years. Like his friend the late Cedric Morris, John Morley is part of the celebrated tradition of East Anglian painter-plantsman. His plant knowledge, combined with a mastery in conveying texture and play of light, renders his paintings unforgettable. The works will be available for purchase in support of the museum’s education and exhibition programmes.
With a major focus on emerging lifestyle trends, the Show is set to inspire crowds with floral displays and Show Gardens. Visitors to the show will also experience masterclasses with floral designers, to meet key landscape designers, exhibitors and industry experts, as well as peruse the avenues of exhibitors selling everything from bulbs, plants, tools, trinkets and garden accessories.
Set in the grounds of Beaulieu in Hampshire, the Spring Fair will present nurseries with displays and plants for sale, a collection of borders and a range of gardening exhibitors. The BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine team will be on hand with spring gardening tips at their What To Do Now Stage.
A joint collaboration by gardening broadcaster Toby Buckland and Country Gardener magazine, the festival is held annually at Powderham Castle, home of the Earl and Countess of Devon.
Based at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern, Worcestershire, and framed by the picturesque Malvern Hills, RHS Malvern Spring Festival is the perfect opportunity to prepare for the upcoming gardening season.Enjoy a walk around the show gardens, gather inspiration from exhibitors and get hints and tips from a range of talks and demonstrations at this early season show.
First exhibition to examine the common thread weaving through all of Cecil Beaton’s work: gardens and flowers. Photographs, paintings, drawings, costume and set design will explore the role flowers played in developing his creative practice: from the lavish floral installations for his infamous parties, to painted and fresh flowers for fashion photography and royal portraits, to floral costumes in films such as My Fair Lady. Curated by Garden Museum Curator Emma House and designed by artist and designer Luke Edward Hall.
