RHS Malvern Spring Festival is set to return to Three Counties Showground, Malvern from 9 – 12 May 2024 in a blaze of seasonal colour. With a packed programme over four days, here are seven unmissable features of the 2024 festival:

1. New Festival of Houseplants

The number one place to head first is the exciting new Festival of Houseplants in collaboration with Green Rooms Market, a vibrant treasure trove of indoor plants to brighten up even the smallest spaces. Located in the new Kildare Hall, this indoor oasis will feature an array of top-quality independent house plant shops and expert growers on hand to offer guidance and advice.

2. Magnificent show and feature gardens

A fundamental highlight of RHS Malvern Spring Festival is admiring the trailblazing show and feature gardens - the very first gardens of the 2024 RHS Floral Show season. This year’s Festival will see eight RHS Judged show gardens that promise an eclectic mix of designs reflecting traditional ideas and avant-garde concepts.

This year’s feature garden, The Secret Escape, is by RHS gold medal-winning Jamie Langlands – Lead Designer at Oxford Garden Design, who was responsible for last year’s Best Show Garden, Best Construction Award and the People's Choice Best Show Garden Award.

3. An abundance of flowers and plants to shop and admire

Of course, it wouldn’t be an RHS Flower Show if there wasn’t a kaleidoscope of colourful flora and fauna to admire, and this year’s RHS Malvern Spring Festival will not disappoint! The substantial 190m Floral Marquee will host even more carefully selected exhibitors than previous years, with over 60 of them all vying to be awarded a coveted RHS medal.

4. Plastic pot swap

This year’s RHS Malvern Spring Festival theme is ‘Gardening for Change’, so it’s apt that the plastic pot swap will make a return to this year’s festival in a bid to help visitors reduce their single use plastic and garden in a more environmentally considerate way.

Two pot-swapping stations, located next to the Floral Marquee’s Plant Crèche and within the Plant Village, will offer shoppers the opportunity to exchange plastic containers for biodegradable POSIpot transportation sleeves, which can be planted straight into the ground. All the plastic pots collected during the festival will be recycled after the long weekend.

5. Delectable dining

After working up an appetite exploring the festival, visitors can tuck into a delicious breakfast, lunch or afternoon tea at the new ‘Garden Shed’ dining experience, looking out over the impressive view of the Malvern Hills.

The Bluebell Bistro (a new addition to the 2023 festival) will return for 2024 and will be offering guests delicious new breakfast and afternoon tea options, in addition to its popular lunch menu.

6. Pick up some clever tips & tricks to implement at home

The popular Tips & Tricks Theatre will make a return to this year’s RHS Malvern Spring Festival, hosted by Leigh Johnstone, aka ‘The Beardy Gardener’, with a range of experts sharing their top tips for growing your own edible produce, clever ways to save costs in your outdoor space and handy tips for upcycling, reusing and mending.

7. Enjoy talks from horticultural experts and special guests

This year’s RHS Malvern Spring Festival will host another stellar line-up of TV gardening personalities, horticultural heroes and gardening influencers, who between them will share advice on everything from how to garden in a rapidly changing climate to how to create delicious meals using home-grown ingredients.

Find out more about this year’s RHS Malvern Spring Festival at https://www.rhsmalvern.co.uk/

Tickets for RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2024 start from just £15 for a new Saturday ‘Taster Ticket’, and under 16s are free of charge, and can be booked now via https://www.rhsmalvern.co.uk/