Now in its 9th year, Toby’s Garden Festival, hosted by BBC gardener Toby Buckland, is an unmissable two days for gardeners and foodies, with over 160 exhibitors, including award-winning Chelsea Flower Show plant nurseries, plus art and craft, garden furniture, outdoor kitchens and buildings. New for 2023 is the Food Drink Devon Market showcasing local producers, with talks and tastings on...
Celebrate all things apple at RHS Garden Rosemoor in Devon this autumn, as the annual Apple Festival returns for its 30th anniversary.
With over 50 varieties of rare, local heritage apples on display, live music, cookery demonstrations, locally-produced food and drink, book signings, and even a wassail from local Morris Dancers, the UK’s longest running apple festival is guaranteed...
A local family-run garden centre business is being forced to giveaway £100,000 worth of Garden Plants for FREE this weekend as they cannot recruit enough nursery staff to look after the plants if returned to their nurseries for the winter.
Team leader Matt Pollard explains “In any usual year we would return these plants to our nursery to cut them back and grow them on for future...
Local countryside and conservation charity Devon CPRE is delighted to announce that St Margaret’s Church at Northam is the Winner of this year’s Devon’s Best Churchyard Competition. At the weekend a sustainable oak plaque and a cheque for £200 was awarded to representatives of the community of volunteers who help maintain this beautifully biodiverse churchyard on the north Devon coast....
The Cotehele gardening volunteers have won the Cornwall Today Volunteers’ Cup 2016’ at the spring flower show in Boconnac, Cornwall. The show and award ceremony took place over the weekend of 2/3 April.
‘The award is thoroughly deserved for the volunteers’ tremendous efforts in creating the dried flower garland here at Cotehele last Christmas’, says Chris Groves, Senior Gardener at the...
After the success of last year, Toby Buckland's Garden Festival at Powderham Castle is back and bigger than ever on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd May!
There will be explosive 'daytime fireworks' with coloured smoke and showering steamers down from the Gate House. Toby and the Countess of Devon will be cutting the ribbon.
Teign Trees will be swining from the trees at the entrance of the castle! There will also be live music from the Cataclews and much more.
Topsham Flower Club are decorating the Chapel at Powderham with incredible flower arrangements themed on the work...
Plymouth’s popular garden waste collection is starting up again from 30 March.
This year the scheme will be extended by a month until the end of November so that people can sweep up autumn leaves and put their garden to bed for the winter.
The collection operates every fortnight – the same week that people’s recycling is collected.
Gardeners should start preparing early for their great slug and snail hunt this year as winter temperatures have provided the perfect conditions for their arch enemies.
According to Wyevale Garden Centres – the UK’s largest garden centre group - last year, gardeners spent £11.6 million in their battle to protect their botanical spaces, battling over 30 species of slugs including a...
BBC Breakfast News ran a story on this week about Japanese Knotweed and that property owners could now be fined if they do not deal with an infestation on their property. We thought you might like some additional information.
The new Government guidance advises that Council Officers and police will have the power to issue Community Protection Notices for “invasive non-native species”....
