RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025

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Thu 08 May 2025 - Sun 11 May 2025

The Royal Horticultural Society’s 2025 Malvern Spring Festival is set to include a host of new features and attractions.



The show, which runs at Malvern's Three Counties Showground from May 8 to May 11, has the theme of ‘Plants and People’ and, for the first time, will include RHS judged Indoor Plant Gardens. Creative ways of using indoor plants will be showcased, highlighting the impact they can have on our daily lives. The gardens will also demonstrate how versatile and easily accessible indoor plants are, and how they’re an enjoyable and convenient way to engage in horticulture year-round, regardless of whether or not you have outdoor space. The Indoor Plant Gardens – located in the Festival of Houseplants area – will be scrutinised by a panel of horticultural experts and RHS judges to crown the first RHS medal-winning Indoor Plant Garden 2025.



The new Give it a Grow theatre will also debut at this year’s festival. Hosted by Leigh Johnstone (aka ‘ The Beardy Gardener ’), the theatre will welcome special guests, including Adam Alexander (aka ' The Seed Detective ' – award-winning film and TV producer who lectures widely on his work discovering, conserving and sharing rare and endangered gardening crops), Huw Richards (YouTube content creator and author of four best-selling plot to plate books), Anya Lautenbach (aka ' Anya The Garden Fairy ' – bestselling author and digital content creator), Sarah Gerrard-Jones (aka ' The Plant Rescuer ' – author and presenter on ITV’s Alan Titchmarsh’s Gardening Club, and a prominent voice in the world of houseplants) and Helen Cross (author, broadcaster and horticultural educator). This area will act as an educational hub, inspiring visitors to grow more, grow smarter and grow better.

Another new introduction to this year’s festival is a special ‘Dog Day’ on May 11. Well-behaved dogs on short, fixed leads are welcome to enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of the festival with their owners. The dog tickets are available to book online in advance at www.rhsmalvern.co.uk .



As usual, the festival boasts a full programme of lively talks, interactive demonstrations and expert advice from some of the most respected names in horticulture. This year’s Festival Theatre host is TV presenter, broadcaster and former music publicist, Nicki Chapman , who will be joined by the likes of Alan Titchmarsh CBE (pictured above with James Alexander-Sinclair at last year's festival) , Rachel de Thame, Adam Frost and Frances Tophill.



The Kitchen Garden Theatre will make a sizzling return to the RHS Malvern Spring Festival, offering visitors the chance to relax within an immersive kitchen garden while enjoying live cooking demos from talented chefs and local food producers. Hosting the Kitchen Garden Theatre this year will be award-winning food and gardening writer, Mark Diacono . Culinary icon, Raymond Blanc OBE , will take to the stage on May 8, sharing insights from his decades of experience in food and hospitality. From May 9 to May 11, ITV’s This Morning's Marcus Bean will share tasty tips on celebrating the season through food.

The Potting Shed Theatre, located inside the Floral Marquee, will host a range of green-fingered specialists ready to share their gardening knowledge. Husband and wife team Martin and Jill Fish will bring to the stage over 45 years of experience working in horticulture and experimenting in the kitchen with home-grown ingredients. They will welcome guests including Jon Wheatley (garden designer and grower), Chris Collins (Head of Horticulture at Garden Organic and former head gardener of Westminster Abbey) and Jonathan Moseley (one of the UK’s leading floral designers).



There will be a total of 27 gardens for visitors to explore, including eight RHS-judged show gardens. Highlights include Emily Crowley-Wroe ’s ‘The Maindee Unlimited: Greening Maindee Gateway Garden’, which will demonstrate how even the most unlikely of spaces can be revitalised to become greener and more welcoming to people and wildlife, and ‘St Godwald’s Retreat’ by Marc Harbourne-Bessant , a space for reflection and mindful retreat, which will be moving to Primrose Hospice & Family Support Centre in Bromsgrove after the festival.

Tickets for RHS Malvern Spring Festival are on sale from www.rhsmalvern.co.uk .


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