We are delighted to announce Hearth & Cook are sponsoring our new Chill & Grill Zone at the Garden Festival at Powderham Castle on 28th and 29th April. Showing visitors to the Festival how to cook creatively in the garden, Hearth & Cook will be bringing along their Morso range of outdoor stoves and ovens …
Fancy a Weekend Break with Warners and Toby’s Garden & Harvest Fest?
Why not make a long weekend break of your visit to Toby’s Garden Harvest Festival? We have linked up with the well-known Cricket St Thomas Hotel to offer festival visitors a great package deal: a three-night stay at the Warner’s Leisure Hotel at Cricket St Thomas which is just ten minutes from Forde Abbey. The …
Over 100 Exhibitors Already Booked!
We’ve passed the 100 mark on exhibitors now booked for Toby’s GardenFest at Powderham Castle on 28th and 29th April with new applications still coming in daily. We are delighted that so many past exhibitors are returning to the Fest, including popular local Dawlish nursery Whetman Pinks, Chelsea award-winners Avon Bulbs, Thornhayes, Teign Trees, Urban …
What’s Nibbling your Plants – Find out at the Festival!
Plagued by pigeons, run ragged by rabbits or are deer leaving your daphne bedraggled? Worry no more! At our New Pest Clinic sponsored by Grazers, Dr Ian Bedford – Head of Entomology at the world-renowned John Innes Centre for research In Norwich – will be on hand to help. Dr Ian, a regular pest expert …
Volunteers Wanted for Toby’s Garden & Harvest Festival in September
Meet Sue Parkin, the first volunteer to sign up for our new Festival at Forde Abbey in September. Sue is a retired nursery nurse with five grand-children and has lived in nearby Axminster for the past 17 years. A keen gardener with a townhouse garden filled with cottage-style plants and box topiary, Sue belongs to not one but …
New Garden Clinic for Powderham Sponsored by Grazers
Grazers, a UK producer of a wildlife and pet-friendly range against major garden pest damage are hosting a new Garden Pest Clinic at Toby’s Garden Festival at Powderham Castle on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th April. Celebrating 10 years in business in 2017, Grazers will be giving visitors an opportunity to take away and trial …
Volunteers to enjoy Christmas coffee and cakes at Toby’s Plant Centre
Potential volunteers for the Powderham Garden Festival on 28 and 29 April are invited to join Toby and Lisa Buckland at the Plant Centre, Powderham Castle on Tuesday 13 December at 11am for Christmas coffee and award-winning cake. As both a thank you to previous volunteers and a welcome meeting for anyone who’s interested in …
Summer Starts Here!
Toby’s Garden Festival at Powderham Castle takes place as always on the first spring bank holiday of the year, heralding the start of summer and the new growing season. Widely regarded as the preeminent gardening show in the West Country, Toby’s GardenFest is now in its fourth year and bursts into life for two plant-packed …
Join Toby on a sun filled autumn visit to Forde Abbey
If you’ve never enjoyed an autumn visit to Forde Abbey, the venue of our new Toby’s Garden and Harvest Festival next September, then our preview video offers just a glimpse of what you’ve been missing. The 30 acres of award winning gardens tucked away in the Dorset countryside have been praised as being one of …
Toby Buckland announces New Garden & Harvest Festival at Forde Abbey
There’s an exciting new date on the gardening calendar – Toby’s Garden Festivals have teamed up with Forde Abbey in Somerset to create a brand-new annual event, Toby’s Garden & Harvest Festival. Running on 16th and 17th September 2017, Toby’s new festival is destined to be a practical celebration of Autumn gardening and the harvest, …