What’s that beautiful noise we can hear? Why, it’s our fabulous musicians getting in tune for the Garden Festival at Powderham Castle! This May we have a heavenly host of songsters, guitarists, contemporary folk musicians and original singer-songwriters, all coming to serenade us while we load our trolleys, bags and every available pocket with plants! …
But then we knew that already didn’t we? Now though, botanicals are everywhere, from the latest designer dresses to wallpaper and cushions and the best artisan gins. Whether potted, planted, indoors or out, as bedroom decor or on your plate, we just can’t get enough of them. The Economist recently declared 2019 the Year of …
A new season of gardening is fast approaching and with it dreams of prize parsnips, romantic roses and other alliterative garden successes, far too plentiful to mention. After all, gardening is as much about hope, as it is about the reality – which can deliver as many failures (best forgotten of course) as brilliant successes. …
Time is running out to bag yourself bargain early bird tickets at more than 25% off! Buy before midnight on 31st December and you can enjoy expert talks and more than 200 quality exhibitors, offering rare and unusual plants, artisan crafts, live music and delicious West Country fayre – all in the picturesque surroundings of …
We’re always grateful and delighted whenever our festivals get recognition in the press, so we were thrilled to see ourselves get a mention in Sunday Times Home this weekend as one of the 2019 ‘Gardening Gigs to Book Now’. Writer Caroline Donald pointed out that “soon the days will start to lengthen and we can …
It’s a Gardener’s World for us as we’re joined by some famous names from TV gardening with popular garden designer Joe Swift and Frances Tophill confirmed as speakers for 2019. Joe Swift has presented on Gardeners’ World since the late 1990’s and has fronted numerous TV shows including Open Gardens, Small Town Gardens, Garden Makers …
Choose the right plants for your garden and the Autumn show can be just as spectacular as the Summer performance, with coppery and russet tones that crackle and smoulder and provide colour right the way through until the first frosts. At our festival location of Forde Abbey, dahlias are a must-have and the Walled Kitchen …
Much like the Cistercians monks who farmed the land 900 years ago, Forde Abbey’s kitchen garden (a Victorian add-on but very much in the spirit of Cistercian productivity!) is a hive of industry, growing not just cut flowers for the house but an array of seasonal vegetables for the cafe under the watchful eye and …
The Old Dairy Kitchen and Trill Farm Garden work together as two of the enterprises at Trill Farm, in Musbury, Devon. In tune with the seasons, chef Chris Onions looks to Ashley & Kate’s garden as the creative muse for his menus year-round. And with this bountiful summer, there is no end to their collaborations. …
Call them what you will – plants in the wrong place or plants that haven’t been planted – weeds are something that most gardeners will have had to deal with at some point. It’s always amazing how successfully weeds come back after a hard day’s weeding and haven’t we all at some point wondered if …
