The ever-popular Specialist Spring Plant Fair will return to Borde Hill on Sunday 11th 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 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:
(click nursery name for details)
Pelham Plants Nursery
Plantbase
Priorswood Clematis
Riverside Bulbs
Southon Plants
Swallowfields Nursery
The No Name Nursery
ZC Succulents
Zophian Plants
Accessories:
Branching Out
The Potting Shed, Sussex
Societies
Australasian Plant Society
Plant Heritage Sussex
Sussex HPS
Sussex Wildlife Trust
Book signing with Juliet Sergeant
Between 11.30am-12.30pm, Juliet Sargeant, award-winning garden designer and broadcaster, will be in attendance at the Specialist Spring Plant Fair to sign and promote her new book, ‘Start with Soil’ which is published on the 1st May. Created in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this is the must-have guide for a thriving garden.
Juliet is an award-winning garden designer and regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time. She teaches garden design and horticulture at her Sussex Garden School and her New Blue Peter Garden: Discover Soil for 2022’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show is now on permanent display at RHS Garden Bridgewater.
