A popular gardening festival has announced its return with a new theme and exciting features for 2025.

The RHS Malvern Spring Festival is set to take place from May 8 to May 11, at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern.

Known for being a trailblazer in the RHS Floral Show season, the four-day event will kick off the 2025 season with a new theme, 'Plants & People'.

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The festival, which showcases the latest gardening trends and innovations, will feature well-known horticulturalists and TV gardening personalities, including Alan Titchmarsh MBE.

The first RHS-medal-winning gardens of the year will also be crowned at the festival.

The 'Plants & People' theme for the 2025 festival encourages visitors to explore the ways in which plants impact our lives.

This includes the food we eat, the air we breathe, and the effects they have on our mental and physical wellbeing.

The festival will have talks from horticultural experts on topics such as sustainable gardening, accessible plant care, gardening for wellbeing, and ways to incorporate plants into our everyday lives.

The event will also explore the journey from cultivation to consumption, and soil to plate, running alongside workshops and talks from some of the UK's top TV and restaurant chefs.

A highlight for many at the festival is the Show Gardens, which are designed by leading and emerging horticultural talents.

The gardens will be scrutinised by the RHS judges for the first gold medal prize of the year.

A new addition to the 2025 festival is the RHS Judged Indoor Show Gardens, the first of its kind at the festival.

These will showcase creative ways of using indoor plants and will be judged by a panel of horticultural experts and RHS judges.

Jane Edwards, head of shows and marketing at the showground, said: "We’re really excited to host this new category of RHS Judged Indoor Show Gardens at Malvern next year.

"These Indoor Show Gardens aim to demonstrate that plants are accessible to all and everyone should be able to enjoy the benefits of them, even when planting in outdoor green space isn’t an option."

Tickets for the festival start at £16, with free entry for under-16s.