Toby’s Garden Festival is back for our 11th year, not so much with a bang, as with a begonia (or maybe a brugmansia)! We return on the first Spring Bank Holiday of the year, Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd May 2025, at Powderham Castle in the village of Kenton, just outside Exeter. Come and join …
We’re over the moon to announce that online wine merchant, Wickhams, returns as a festival sponsor in 2025, popping the cork on a whole range of exciting wine from Devon England and beyond for festival visitors. Wickham’s owner Dan Farrell-Wright will once again be hosting the wine zone in the Castle Dining Room where you can …
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 …
Food Drink Devon are once again running their Green Heart Trail at the Festival for one lucky festival visitor to win an amazing hamper jam-packed with the best of Devon’s food and drink! To enter, head to their stand in the Castle Courtyard where you can pick up an entry form. Then look out for …
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!
Don’t miss out – get your tickets now for our 10th anniversary event and save 20% on the gate price A great gardener’s gift or Christmas present Buy your Early Bird ticket for just £12 – a 20% saving Meet BBC Radio Devon’s Sunday morning host Toby Buckland 30 plus local and award-winning nurseries 200 …
We have two upgrade options, including our VIP Experience, sponsored by Hawksmoor Investment Management, which includes all day access to the castle music room and library and lunch, or just for the afternoon – Tea in the Castle, from 2.30pm onwards when you will be served tea/coffee and cake in the VIP area. For the full VIP upgrade, …
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 …
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That was the fest that was! And what a festival it was, a brilliant, sunny two days of flowers, talks and festive fun sandwiched between two biblical downpours before and after the event. More than 6000 flower-seekers poured through the gates of Powderham over Friday and Saturday, greeted by host Toby Buckland and BBC Gardeners’ …
