For our tenth anniversary, Festival host Toby Buckland and Meadow in My Garden’s Paul Jupp have teamed up to launch ‘The Pocket Meadow Project’, an initiative that raises awareness of the habitat loss faced bees and other insect pollinators and gives gardeners the tools to do something about it! Everyone is invited to get involved …
Our Early Bird tickets will go on sale from Monday, October 2nd and you will be able to buy them here. It’s a special price of £12 and will be a saving of £1.50 from our online price and £3 from the price on the gate. Stay updated on the launch of tickets by signing …
We are now open to take exhibitor bookings for the 2024 event and look forward to seeing old friends and some new ones at the show. To be part of our 10th anniversary celebrations just fill in the online application form here
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 …
A shout out for some of our fabulous local talent, serenading us at Toby’s Garden Festival on Fri 28 and Sat 29 April. We’re joined both days by local talent from Devon and Cornwall, playing a range of acoustic and folk, covers and own compositions. Father and son ukulele band from Cornwall, Sunnyside Up, AKA Tim …
We’re thrilled that joining us in the Main Speaker Hall on Saturday 29th we have Devon garden designer and writer Jacquie Felix–Mitchell. Jacquie, who lives in beautiful Buckfastleigh, designs gardens small and large in South Devon and beyond. She writes for national newspapers and magazines on garden design, mainly for the Women’s Institute, and you …
Adrian Gray is the pioneer of stonebalancing art – the gravity-defying practice of balancing stones one on top of the other to create garden sculptures. The stones he uses range in size from small tactile rocks to massive granite boulders, and Adrian will be talking about his inspiration and the process of weathering the stone, lifting them by crane into their …
Speaker news! Adam Alexander, author of The Seed Detective – Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable vegetables, is joining us on Friday 28 April to share his intimate knowledge of veg from around the globe. In his talk ‘Meetings with Remarkable Vegetables’, he celebrates the special qualities of these rare and endangered varieties along with why …
Join us for our new-for-2023 Wine Tasting with festival sponsor, Wickhams, where festival visitors will have the chance to meet the makers, chat to growers, buy wine and enjoy free tastings from Devon, the West Country and beyond. Owned by Dan Farrell-Wright, Wickhams is a Devon-based award-winning online wine merchant who curates a wide range …
