Highgrove festival

Five days with gardening experts

Tickets selling fast – book now to avoid disappointment

TUESDAY 9 APRIL 2019 ✿ Lunch speaker Matthew Wilson ‘Making a garden - the essential principles’ Lunch £125pp Winner of the People’s Choice Award at RHS Chelsea 2016, designer and regular on Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time, Matthew will illustrate the principles of creating a great garden. ✿ Afternoon tea speaker Christine Walkden ‘Plants for wildlife in your garden’ Afternoon tea £95pp Writer, broadcaster and Gardeners’ Question Time regular Christine Walkden will look at suitable plants to attract a wide range of insects, animals and birds to your garden all year round. WEDNESDAY 10 APRIL 2019 ✿ Lunch speaker Tom Stuart-Smith ‘Gardens and culture’ Lunch £125pp Chelsea gold-medalwinning designer Tom Stuart-Smith explores the role that gardens play in other cultures and the unique place that they have in Britain. He looks at examples from medinas in Morocco to waterways in Kerala. ✿ Afternoon tea speaker Jason Ingram ‘Gardens through the lens’ Afternoon tea £95pp Using his beautiful images taken throughout the seasons, award-winning photographer and magazine regular Jason Ingram will show how to capture the stages of a garden’s life in wide and macro detail. THURSDAY 11 APRIL 2019 Lunch speaker Fergus Garrett ‘Designing with plants the Great Dixter way’

Lunch £125pp Head gardener at Great Dixter, Fergus will talk about plant combinations in the garden, using colour, shape, texture and repetition. He will give examples of how to contrast plants, and create movement and balance. ✿ ✿

Afternoon tea speaker Kate Bradbury

‘ Wildlife gardening’

Afternoon tea £95pp

Award-winning author, journalist and

Gardeners’ World Magazine

Wildlife Editor, Kate Bradbury will share tips and suggestions for how everyone can increase the number of species visiting their gardens, no matter how big or small the plot.