Events
What to Plant in the UK in August?
August presents an ideal opportunity for sowing seeds and planting young plants in the UK. In the vegetable patch, this timing ensures a continuous cropping season, offering quick harvests of salad leaves and radishes, along with long-cropping varieties like winter...
Green Thumb? 5 Tips for Your Greenhouse
If you’re an avid gardener, you know how challenging it can be to grow healthy plants and flowers that thrive in your outdoor environment—especially during the colder months of the year! One way to make this process easier, however, is by using a greenhouse in your...
Staging Your Greenhouse
Remember, your greenhouse is only as good as your staging. It is absolutely vital that you get the best possible staging for your greenhouse, you should decide on your layout! Why not start with just a run of staging down one side of the greenhouse and then grow...
How to Care for a Greenhouse in Winter
We all know that it’s important to care for our greenhouses in the summertime, but what about in the winter? Do we just shut them down and leave them alone until the warm weather comes back around? That might be one approach, but it’s certainly not the best one. With...
Great Comp Garden Summer Show
Comp Ln, St Mary's Platt, Sevenoaks TN15 8QS The Summer Show is Great Comp Garden’s biggest event of the year, held when the garden is at its peak. This year, for the first time in the event’s 17 year history, exhibitors will showcase their fantastic plants on the...
Beefest
Bodnant Gardens We're going buzzy about bees this weekend, with lots of info and activities. This event is free, but normal admission charges apply for the venue.
Official Prestatyn Flower Show
Prestatyn The 25th annual Flower Show will be held on Friday 26th & Saturday 27th July 2019. Held annually in Prestatyn town centre within beautiful North Wales, our traditional two-day Flower Show event blends a relaxing, garden fête atmosphere combined with serious...
Picnic with a Porpoise
Bull Bay, Anglesey, LL68 9SH Picnic with a PorpoiseCelebrate National Marine Week by enjoying a relaxing sea watch with your picnic at this prime location for porpoises and sea birds. Information on recent sightings and help with identification from Eve Grayson,...
Glastonbury Open Gardens
Magdalene Street, Glastonbury BA6 9EJ Part of the Glorious Somerset Gardens Season, in aid of St Margaret’s Hospice. Magdalene Street has three gardens to visit. Entry by donation. Greenhill House: walled garden with trees, roses, iris and agapanthus. There is a...
Rare Plant Fair
Highnam Court, Highnam GL2 8DP The beautiful gardens at Highnam Court, near Gloucester, are the setting for a Rare Plant Fair. Over the past 20 years, owner Roger Head has restored the gardens, with many new additions to complement and enhance the original design,...