Exciting NEW Highlights for 2025

· ‘Make a Metre Matter’ is BBC Gardeners’ World’s campaign for 2025. Running across the TV show, Magazine, events and digital platforms, the campaign encourages gardeners to transform a metre of their garden to support wildlife, biodiversity and edible plants. It’s all about making small but meaningful changes for the good of the planet. The Magazine has a series of monthly features with creative ways to Make a Metre Matter, and gardeners are invited to share pictures of their marvellous metres with BBC Gardeners’ World. A selection will be featured on the special BBC GW Live programme on 13 June. All BBC GW events in 2025 will have Make a Metre Matter gardens, features and content.

· The Plant-Based Garden is Nick Bailey’s headline Show Garden. This large, sustainable and colourful garden embodies the Make a Metre Matter campaign ethos and is packed with Make a Metre Matter metres. Nick will be chatting with Nicki Chapman on his garden each day. At the Let’s Talk Plants Stage in the Floral Marquee, experts from Hillier, plant supplier for The Plant-Based Garden, will be sharing tips on how to recreate the garden’s look and ethos at home.

· Pip Probert’s ‘Make a Meter Matter’ collection – the award-winning designer’s Make a Metre Matter collection brings some of BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine’s creative ideas to life, including a pollinator patch, a mini pond and a compost heap. Pip has also designed some special metres to mark the 25th anniversary of Greenfingers, the charity which creates children’s hospice gardens.

· More Make a Metre Matter content around the show.

· Adam Frost’s Tasting Table – a unique, interactive and exclusive new gardening and gastronomy experience. Adam brings garden flavours to life with culinary experts and guest chefs from Good Food Show Summer and Good Food Magazine. Live cooking demonstrations, expert kitchen gardening tips and inspiring conversations with guests including Rachel Allen, Chris Bavin, Si King, James Martin, John Torode and Lisa Faulkner, and Barney Desmazery and Cassie King from GF Magazine. Drop-in viewing positions around the perimeter.

· The In Conversation With Stage hosted by Ade Sellars, featuring a daily programme of relaxed garden and lifestyle chat with acclaimed horticulturalists and gardening personalities. Guests include Sue Kent, Pip Probert and Jason Williams (Cloud Gardener UK).

· The Green Rooms – a haven for indoor plant lovers, featuring plant-packed stalls, pots and accessories, expert plant care advice, talks and workshops. Hosted by Sarah Gerrard-Jones (@theplantrescuer) and Ian Morrison (Liquid Gold Leaf).

· Young People in Horticulture Association - unveil a brand new Begonia in the finale of the Launch Success Challenge, designed to develop nextgen horticultural talent. Supported by BBC Gardeners’ World Live, Beekenkamp Plants and British Garden Centres, the Challenge programme offers business and marketing training and skills to teams of young horticultural professionals to

bring an unreleased plant to market. The new Begonia will be launched at BBC Gardeners’ World Live and on sale with British Garden Centres and their retail stand onsite.

Much-loved favourite features

· This year’s inspiring Show Gardens include: the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity Medicinal Garden which will be relocated to the new Midlands Air Ambulance new site at Shifnal in Shropshire. The My Garden Escape at QVC Reflective Retreat by award-winning designer, Kitti Kovacs is a tranquil design that combines a contemplative aesthetic with practical solutions for gardening in a changing climate. Vihara Meditation Garden designed by Sarah Coe of Derby College; Garden Organic’s wildlife garden; Leigh Johnstone & Matt Le Gassick‘s Garden for the Forest Stewardship Council (FFC); the Greenfingers Charity Anniversary Garden designed by Pip Probert, the New Build Garden designed by Mimosa Design Ltd, The APL Anniversary Garden Where There’s Water There’s Life Garden designed by Rachel Bailey, and more to be revealed!

· Showcase Gardens including: Sunflower Power by Beth’s Sunflowers in partnership with Jack Moody Landscaping and Hannah Thomas Garden Design; Just a Garden … by Carleen Osborne Garden Design; The Nectary by Kate Patrick, The Messy Allotmenteer; Think, All things Pink by Samantha Stringer, In Sammy’s Garden; The Earth Heals by Sue Arthur, Ornatum Gardens; The Wildlife Garden by Tom Cave Saunders, Skylark Garden Design; Uniting Land and Sea by Samantha Theakstone.

· Beautiful Borders - small garden inspiration with a theme of Cultivating Connections. Includes a design from Lego; After the End by Alexandra Valk; One to Three by Anita Marshall; The Wonder Garden by Anthony Massie; The 160th Unbirthday of Alice In Wonderland by Briony Dakic; A British Rainforest by Christopher North; Living Conections by Danielle Telfer; Family Nature and Neighbours by David Blythe; Creating Connections: Slugs and snails, Making friends with our foes by Deborah Mole; The Golden Hour by Ellen Tozer; Gardens Apart by Jade Dinwiddy; Willow Moments and Memories by Jan O’Brien; Nourishing the Soul by Laura Whiskens; A Time for Peace by Rachael Deterville; Interwoven by Sophie Howden; Cultivating Connections – Connecting with myself by Stuart Gibbs, 9 Borders by WFGA members (Amy Bosworth, Donna Suttn, Hannah Becket, Helena Kidd, Isabel Sabine, Jane Eastwood, Rhoda Perry, Sandrine Hughes, Victoria Benjamin); and The Milky Way – Thinking of the moon and stars by Wouter Leyssen.

· APL Avenue Show Garden Competition - showcasing the skills of three professional member companies and celebrating the APL’s 30th anniversary. This year’s design theme is water and entries are The Watershed Garden by The Botanical Gardener, A Garden For All Weathers by August Ponds and Wallace Line by Dave Hodson.

· BBC Gardeners’ World Live Theatre featuring entertaining gardening chat with Monty Don, Adam Frost, Nick Bailey, Frances Tophill, Rachel De Thame and Sue Kent ‘in conversation’ with Nicki Chapman and sharing summer garden tips with the BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine editors. Theatre sponsor, British Garden Centres, will be hosting daily sessions.

· In the spectacular Floral Marquee:

o The Let’s Talk Plants stage hosted by David Hurrion, with expert plant advice from guests including Monty Don, Adam Frost, Sue Kent and Charles Carr, Head of Wholesale Nurseries for stage sponsor, Hillier.

o Hot Off The Potting Bench - a walk-through gallery of new plants and varieties entered for the coveted Peter Seabrook Award for Best New Plant at BBC GWL.

o The International Orchid Show – the British Orchid Council’s ‘show within a show’ has stunning displays and expert advice from specialist orchid societies and nurseries.

o The Plant Experts one-to-one advice desk and garden tours and walks hosted by BBC GWL’s Head Gardeners, Lucy Chamberlain and Saul Walker.

o Plant Healthy – an educational display by the Horticultural Trade Association to encourage the growing, buying and selling of healthy plants to help protect plants, landscape and wildlife.

o Pot Swap by Wool-Pots where visitors can exchange plastic pots from plants bought at the show for a sustainable alternative.

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· Indoor and outdoor shopping! There’s a huge array of plants to browse and buy in the Floral Marquee, Plant Village and Green Rooms, and hundreds of high-quality retailers selling garden accessories, décor, tools, equipment and furniture. The Plant Crèche offers hands- and hassle-free shopping with a car collection service available for heavier items.

· Book signings: BBC Gardeners’ World Live gardening experts and Good Food Show Summer chefs will be signing copies of their latest books with a personalised message.

· Health for Life Wheelbarrow Competition, nurturing the next generation of gardeners and growers. Children from local schools and nurseries will be creating wheelbarrow planters with a ‘food and climate change’ theme.

· Hands-on children’s activities: drop-in daily sessions celebrating Frances Tophill’s new children’s book, How to Grow a Garden, Find a Plant for Every Place (Magic Cat Publishing) with book signing on Saturday.

· Tickets include entry to the Good Food Show Summer, featuring demonstrations and theatres, stages and talks, tastings and workshops, street food and delicious food and drink to taste and buy. Celebrity chefs include Rachel Allen, Jane Dunn, Lisa Faulkner, Nadiya Hussain, Si King, James Martin, Tony Singh, Cyrus Todiwala and John Torode. Visitors can dine in style at the Good Food Restaurant, inspired by the country’s leading food website, goodfood.com.