The ever-popular Specialist Spring Plant Fair will return to Borde Hill on Sunday 12th May from 10am to 3pm. Hosted by the Plant Fairs Roadshow, a collective of independent specialist nurseries, visitors can expect an extraordinary lineup of locally grown, garden worthy and unusual plants from leading growers from across the South East, including several RHS exhibitors, in a series of beautiful stalls on the Azalea Ring.
Borde Hill’s gardening team will be available throughout the event to offer invaluable horticultural advice to visitors, helping them find the right plant for the right place – a chance to put your burning horticultural questions to the experts!
The Spring Plant Fair also offers a unique opportunity to delve into Borde Hill’s rich history of planting excellence, with a complimentary talk led by Head of Horticulture, Harry Baldwin, at 12pm in the Garden Marquee. Delve into the remarkable legacy of Colonel Stephenson Robert Clarke, the visionary plantsman behind the Garden’s extraordinary collection of rare trees and flowering shrubs, while hearing about the pioneering propagation programme aimed at safeguarding these botanical wonders for future generations.
Among the exciting list of specialist exhibitors will be Clare’s Chillies, Miles Japanese Maples, and Chailey Iris Garden, along with other well-known names such as Plantbase, Hardy Cottage Garden Plants and Eleplants, to name just a few. The Sussex branch of the Hardy Plant Society will be there too, along with Sussex Wildlife Trust and the Australasian Plant Society
The Spring Plant Fair is a wonderful time to visit Borde Hill, when the Azalea Ring will be a kaleidoscope of colour with deciduous Kurume azaleas. Across the Garden there will also be uplifting displays of rhododendrons, flowering trees, bluebells, tulips and striking Allium ‘Globemaster’ bulbs adding vibrant colour to the Italian Garden and Blue Border.
Nurseries attending
Beechbridge Plants
Chailey Iris Garden
Charleshurst Farm Nursery
Clares Chillies
Copton Ash
Cottage Garden Plants
Daisy Roots
Eleplants
Flower and Earth
Hardys Cottage Plants
LDB Plants
Madrona Nursery
Miles Japanese Maples
Pelham Plants
Plantbase
Riverside Bulbs
Rose Cottage Plants
Swallowfields Nursery
Zophian Plants
We will also be joined by:
Branching Out
The Potting Shed
WOOL SHrED
Australasian Plant Society
Sussex Hardy Plant Society
Sussex Wildlife Trust
Find out more about the nurseries here
