Shows/Plant Fairs

Shows/Plant Fairs

We attend a number of sales during the year please find below the 2025 list. We can take pre-paid orders to these sales for collection and save yourself the shipping charge.

2nd February - Snowdrop and Early Spring Plants Fair, Hole Park Garden, Rolvenden, Cranbrook Kent TN17 4JA www.plant-fairs.co.uk



9th February - Shaftesbury snowdrop fair, including Best In The West Snowdrop Sale' see https://www.shaftesburysnowdrops.org



16th February - Great Comp Snowdrop and Plant Fair, Great Comp Gardens, Kent. https://www.greatcompgarden.co.uk/



23rd February - Kingston Bagpuize Snowdrop Fair, Oxfordshire. https://kbhevents.uk/whats-on/#snowdrops2025



9th March - Plant Heritage North Devon Plant Fair, Pannier Market South Molton, North Devon EX36 3AB.



16th March - Rare Plant Fair, Bishops Palace, Wells. BA5 2PD www.rareplantfair.co.uk.



23rd March - Plant Fairs Roadshow - Hever Castle. https://www.hevercastle.co.uk/whats-on/plant-fair/



29th March - Hardy Plant Society Somerset Group Plant Sale - Yeo Valley Organic Gardens, Blagdon, Somerset . https://www.yeovalley.co.uk/the-organic-garden/



5-6th April - Great Dixter Plant Fair - To be confirmed.



13th April - Rare Plant Fair, Old Rectory Quenington, Gloucs GL7 5BN. www.rareplantfair.co.uk.



20th April - Easter Sunday- Plant Fair Burrow Farm Gardens Dalwood, Axminster. EX13 7ET. https://burrowfarmgardens.co.uk/events/ .



27th April - Plant Fairs Roadshow - Ramster Gardens, Chiddingfold Surrey, GU8 4SN https://www.plantfairsroadshow.co.uk/



5th May -- Hampshire Plant Heritage Plant Sale, Longstock Gardens & Arboretum , Longstock Hampshire. https://www.plantheritage.org.uk/events/hampshire-isle-of-wight/hampshire-grand-plant-fair/



10th May - Charity Plant Fair, Yarlington House, Yarlington, Somerset, BA9 8DY www.plantfairs.co.uk



11h May - Rare Plant Fair, Salthrop House, Wroughton mr Swindon SN4 9QP- www.rareplantfair.co.uk



18th May - Rare Plant Fair, The American Museum and Gardens, Bath. BA2 7BD - www.rareplantfair.co.uk



25th May - Rare Plant Fair - Kingston Bagpuize, Oxford , OX13 5AX- www.rareplantfair.co.uk



1st June - Rare Plant Fair, High Glanau Manor, Lydart, Monmouthshire NP25 4AD www.rareplantfair.co.uk.



8th June - Rare Plant Fair - Waterperry Gardens, nr Oxford. OX33 1JZ. - www.rareplantfair.co.uk



14th & 15th June - Unusual Plant Sale- Gilbert Whites House, Selborne, Hampshire GU34 3JH. www.gilbertwhiteshouse.org.uk



21st June - Plant Fair Roadshow, Horniman Museum, London. - https://www.plantfairsroadshow.co.uk/events/



29th June - Devon Hardy Plant Society Plant Fair Burrow Farm Gardens Dalwood, Axminster. EX13 7ET. https://burrowfarmgardens.co.uk/events/ .



6th July - Plant Fairs Roadshow- Summer Plant Fair, Parham House., West Sussex https://www.plantfairsroadshow.co.uk/events/parham-house-gardens/



13th July - Plant Heritage North Devon Plant Fair, Pannier Market South Molton, North Devon EX36 3AB.



20th July - Rare Plant Fair, Manor House Gardens, Bledlow, Bucks. HP27 9PA www.rareplantfair.co.uk.



27th July - Plant Fairs Roadshow - Serge Hill Project.Gardens, Hertfordshire https://www.plantfairsroadshow.co.uk/events/



18th August - Summer Plants Fair, Hole Park Garden, Rolvenden, Cranbrook Kent TN17 4JA https://www.plantfairsroadshow.co.uk/



31st August - Dorset Plant Heritage Plant Sale, Abbotsbury Gardens, Dorset.



6th September - Rare Plant Fair, Adwell House, nr Thame, Oxfordshire OX9 7DQ www.rareplantfair.co.uk.



14th September - Charity Plant Fair - Mapperton House , Beaminster, Dorset. https://plantfairs.co.uk/category/upcoming-plant-fairs/



21st September- Rare Plant Fair, Llanover House, Llanover, nr Abergavenny NP7 9EF www.rareplantfair.co.uk.



28th September - Plant Fairs Roadshow- Autumn Plant Fair, Mt Ephraim Gardens, Kent https://www.plantfairsroadshow.co.uk/



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Best Selling Plants

Dryopteris wallichiana AGM

Dryopteris wallichiana AGM

£7.00 (2 or fewer items) £6.50 (3 or more items)

A most magnificent fern from the Himalayas and Japan, although named after the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich. The young unfolding fronds are a golden green in the Spring contrasting well with the hairy black midrib and stems. Needs moist conditions though not boggy and avoid dry alkaline soils. Evergreen.
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Polypodium vulgare 'Bifidomultifidum'

Polypodium vulgare 'Bifidomultifidum'

£7.00 (2 or fewer items) £6.50 (3 or more items)

Crested form of the native polypody, good ground cover particularly for dry shade. In common with other species looks best in Winter.
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Dryopteris erythrosora AGM

Dryopteris erythrosora AGM

£7.00 (2 or fewer items) £6.50 (3 or more items)

Quite one of the best garden ferns with bronze new fronds all Summer. Will tolerate a fair amount of alkalinity in the soil but prefers neutral soils. Evergreen.
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Primula vulgaris AGM

Primula vulgaris AGM

£5.95 (2 or fewer items) £5.50 (3 or more items)

The much loved, native woodland primrose, a gem of a plant that, if it weren't so common here in Somerset and the surrounding areas, would be held in much higher regard. Very easy and an important source of early nectar.

An absolute must for a native, wildlife and or woodland garden.


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Viola odorata 'Baroness Alice de Rothchild'

Viola odorata 'Baroness Alice de Rothchild'

£4.80 (2 or fewer items) £4.50 (3 or more items)

A blue purple, very heavily scented form of the sweet violet.
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Asplenium scolopendrium AGM

Asplenium scolopendrium AGM

£6.95 (2 or fewer items) £6.50 (3 or more items)

The native wild form of this easy and very useful evergreen fern. Strap shaped, long undivided fronds giving the plant it's common name Hart's (deer) Tongue fern. Grows better on alkaline to neutral soils. Happy in damp shade but also in dry shade once established. This fern works brilliantly with other ferns, hostas and bergenias.
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