We are excited to announce that Chris Hull will be joining us at GardenFest 2026. Chris is an award-winning landscape designer and presenter on BBC’s Garden Rescue, The One Show and ITV’s Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh. In 2024, he co-won a prestigious Gold Medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the innovative …
We are thrilled that Arit Anderson, the award-winning garden designer, writer, TV presenter, podcast host and RHS ambassador will be joining us at Toby’s Garden Fest next May. She is the first celebrity gardener to sign up to be part of the two-day gardening bonanza on May 1st and 2nd – and Arit will be …
All the people, so many people! Thanks to everyone who joined us in 2025. Can you believe the sun actually shone, and shone some more?! Our wonderful (local Kenton) photographer Louise Kear was on hand to capture the scenes at Powderham Castle both days, and here are the first of our fabulous garden celebs and …
Scything, the ancient art of grass, crop and weed cutting using a long curving blade, is very much in fashion in gardens these days. Considered to be better than strimmers for the lawn, silent so not annoying the neighbours, the art of scything is coming to Toby’s Garden Fest at Powderham Castle for the first …
We’re thrilled to announce that Frances Tophill, is joining us as our celeb speaker in 2025! Known for presenting on Gardeners’ World and ITV’s Love Your Garden, Frances travels all over the country to create surprise transformations to the outdoor spaces of some very deserving people. She works on a number of community gardening projects …
Fabulous news for 2025! This handsome chap is our celebrity garden speaker for Saturday 3rd May 2025. Between planting and design projects, as well as writing and filming for BBC Gardeners’ World, Joe Swift is a very busy guy, so we’re over the moon to have tempted him back to join us to talk at …
Here’s our new logo designed by the clever Garden Fest Team showing the fabulous and fascinating range of speakers for our 10 year Birthday Bash. Hope you like it too!
Internationally renowned stone balancing artist, Adrian Gray, will be demonstrating the astonishing art of stone balancing at Toby’s Garden Festival on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 April. The stone balancing pioneer has spent the last 23 years of his life exploring the fine art of balance in any and all types of rock. Using carefully …
One for cider lovers! Barny, the founder of Sandford Cider is joining us on Saturday 29th April to give a history of Devon cider and its deep roots into the life and culture of our region. Barny founded Sandford Cider in 2002, having started out by making cider for his rugby mates. Since then, Sandford …
Sally Morgan, editor of the Soil Association’s Organic Farming magazine is talking at Toby’s Garden Festival on Saturday 29 April on the topic of coping with a changing climate. Sally will look at how we can make our gardens more resilient to the challenges of climate change, including how to look after our soils, coping …
