RHS Garden Hyde Hall to host BBC Radio 4 Gardeners’ Question Time Summer Garden Party 2025

BBC Radio 4’s annual Gardeners’ Question Time Summer Garden Party will be hosted at RHS Garden Hyde Hall in Essex for 2025.

RHS Hyde Hall Gardens in the summer morning light
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Taking place on the 2nd of August, during the RHS Hyde Hall Flower Show, two episodes of BBC Gardeners’ Question Time will be recorded in front of a live audience where members of the public can join an expert panel for a host of horticultural discussions.

Summer Garden Party ticket holders will have the chance to meet the Gardeners’ Question Time panellists, ask gardening questions and enjoy conversations on horticulture’s current hot topics. There will also be a chance to join the Gardeners’ Question Time experts at the Potting Shed Sessions, for an additional chance to give the team gardening dilemmas in a quick-fire format.

Chaired by Kathy Clugston and Peter Gibbs, the panel will include show favourites, including James Wong, Matthew Pottage, Bunny Guinness and Pippa Greenwood. Matthew Wilson, Bob Flowerdew, Christine Walkden, and Dr Chris Thorogood will also be on hand with expert knowledge and expertise.

There will be two recordings taking place, at 12 pm and 2 pm. Both will air on BBC 4 in the following weeks.