SPEAKERS – We’re joined by BBC Gardeners’ World presenters Joe Swift and Frances Tophill, who will be sharing their knowledge of garden design and coastal gardening, while actor John Challis returns by popular demand for more selfies and book-signings. A new speaker venue The Country Gardener Magazine Talks Tent is the venue for a second programme of short talks and demo’s focussing on specialist plants and will be given by many of the nurserymen and women who exhibit at the festival.

NEW LAYOUT – This year sees a change in layout to make the festival more accessible to visitors with greater weather-proofing, closer access from the visitor car parks and more under-cover space in the shape of the our NEW Artisan Barn which will be a hub for craft and food exhibitors with a new demo stage.

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DOGS WELCOME – In response to feedback from visitors, we are going dog-friendly in 2019! Dogs on short leads will be welcome on site for the first time in the festival’s history and we hope to have a range of attractions and exhibitors to appeal to visitors coming with their four-legged friends.

TREE LISTENING– For the curious, Alex Metcalf of BBC’s My Passion for Trees is hooking up to Powderham’s magnificent oak’s and giving visitors the opportunity to hear the inner workings of the trees, the popping and rumbling of the sap as it makes it way up the bark via the xylem and up to the leafy canopy, carrying up 250 litres of water a day!