Spring is springing and it’s the perfect time to get going in your garden. Plants are always at the heart of what we do at Toby’s Garden Festival and when you buy them at the festival, the experts are always on hand to tell you how to give them the best start in your own garden, whether they need sun, shade, gravel or good soil.

Over the two-day shindig, there’s a chance to hear many of our nursery exhibitors giving talks in the Country Gardener Marquee on their area of expertise, including National Collection Holder Stella Exley of Hare Spring Cottage Plants, Paul Jupp on growing meadows, Hutch House Plants, Mike’s Hostas, Chris Ireland Jones of Avon Bulbs and Philip Nieuwoudt of New Wood Trees on creating and caring for the amazing multi-stemmed trees which grace RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

Here’s the full nursery line-up:

• Floyds Climbers and Clematis
• Urban & Rural
• Hare Spring Cottage Plants
• Coach House Cacti
• Tortworth Plants
• Strete Gate Camellias
• Mike’s Hostas
• Tyning’s Climbers 
• Piccolo Plants Nursery
• Easterhill Herbs & Willow
• Nook House Plants
• Greenlands Marble Art
• Meadow in my Garden
• Sarah Broom Floral Design
• Primal Plants
• Gardener’s Delight Nursery
• Whetmans International (pinks)
• Hutch House Plants
• Gardens of Japan (orchids)
• New Leaf (bedding plants)
• Land’s End Nurseries
• Growers Organics (fruit and veg)
• Millwood Plants
• Lilies & Chillies
• Avon Bulbs
• Amelia’s Flower Farm
• New Wood Trees
• Sunray Plants
• Petrichor Bulbs
• LFW Plants (roses)

Toby’s Garden Festival, Powderham Castle, Kenton, nr Exeter EX6 8JQ. Friday 28 & Sat 29 April, 10am – 5pm

Advance online tickets £13.50, under 16s free, dogs on leads welcome. Parking free.