Gardeners’ World Live 2024 returns to the NEC Birmingham from 13-16 June, 2024 and is bringing new highlights as follows:
- Adam Frost’s headline Show Garden, The Chef’s Table, featuring daily ‘plot-to-plate’ themed conversations and cooking demos with well-known chefs
- Urban Gardening Showcase Gardens, Stage and retail area, designed to inspire town and city gardeners
- International Orchid Show, making its new home at BBC GWL’s Floral Marquee
- Get Growing Stage, hosted by Chris Collins and dedicated to home growing, with a daily programme of tips and growing advice from well-known ‘GYO’ gurus
- Plant Expert features – workshops, advice desk and garden tours and walks hosted by head gardeners Lucy Chamberlain and Saul Walker (Talking Heads podcast hosts)
- Hot Off The Potting Bench walk-through gallery of new plants and varieties entered for the coveted Peter Seabrook Award for Best New Plant at BBC GWL
- New House Plant Hub design with House Plant Market and Stage, hosted by Ellen Mary
Much-loved favourite features that are returning to Gardener’s World Live 2024 :
- Large Show Gardens by award-winning designers and teams, smaller Showcase Gardens, APL Avenue Competition Gardens, and Beautiful Border miniature show gardens
- Let’s Talk Plants stage, featuring growing advice from plant specialists
- Wool-Pots Pot Swap and Sustainability Zone in the Floral Marquee
- BBC Gardeners’ World Live Theatre featuring Monty Don, Adam Frost, Frances Tophill, Carol Klein and Joe Swift ‘in conversation’ with Nicki Chapman, and swapping summer garden tips with BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine editors
- Plant and garden shopping
- Health for Life Wheelbarrow Competition, nurturing the next generation of gardeners and growers
- Hands-on children’s activities
- Entry to the BBC Good Food Show Summer
In the Association of Professional Landscapers’ APL Avenue Show Garden Competition, four member companies will be showcasing their skills, creating back garden designs inspired by the theme, ‘The Good Life’. The entries this year include Anna Helps Garden Design with Costa Cadiz, Fenton Gardens with Lunatica, Dan Hartley Garden Design with Eco Oasis and Katerina Kantalis with The Mediterraneo Garden.
BBC Gardeners’ World Live, 13 – 16 June NEC Birmingham | 9am-6pm Thurs-Sat ; 9am-5pm Sun.
Book tickets: bbcgardenersworldlive.com