Win a pair of tickets for BBC Gardeners’ World Live at the NEC Birmingham

This month, we have 3 pairs of standard adult tickets for BBC Gardeners’ World Live at the NEC Birmingham to giveaway for Sunday 16^th June. RRP £56.00 per pair.

Urban Gardens, a spectacular edible headline show garden by Adam Frost, orchids from all over the world, and new stages and workshops are just some of the exciting new highlights at this year’s BBC Gardeners’ World Live, returning to the NEC Birmingham from 13th-16th June. It’s the perfect summer day out for green fingered folks and first-time gardeners alike, with inspiring show gardens and floral displays to enjoy, achievable ideas to try at home, plants a-plenty to browse and buy, well-known gardening faces sharing expert advice, and hands-on workshops to dive into.

BBC Gardeners’ World presenter Adam Frost’s headline Show Garden, The Chef’s Table, is sure to draw a crowd at this year’s BBC Gardeners’ World Live. The large, walk-through garden will be a vibrant celebration of home-grown produce, featuring a rustic outdoor cooking and eating space set amongst an array of tasty plants. Adam will be hosting a daily programme of ‘plot-to-plate’ themed conversations and delicious demos on his garden with chefs and culinary friends from sister event, Good Food Show Summer, including James Martin, Michel Roux, and Good Food’s Cassie Best.

New for 2024 and designed to inspire town and city types, the Urban Gardens space, sponsored by Blue Diamond Garden Centre group, is packed with ideas, plants and products for creative containers, brilliant balconies and wonderful window boxes. On the Urban Gardens Stage, Ade Sellars (AKA The Good Life Gardener) will be hosting daily sessions by a line-up of expert urban gardeners, and there will be a Showcase Garden showdown between the UK’s top young landscaping teams, fresh from their success at WorldSkills UK, the national youth skills event. Two talented teams will compete to create the perfect city garden, mentored by award-winning garden designer, Cherry Carmen. Blue Diamond will present their own feature garden, showcasing ten essential plants for urban gardens, with all plants featured – and more – available to buy in the dedicated Urban Gardens retail area.

Orchid lovers will be thrilled to hear that BBC Gardeners’ World Live will be the new home for the British Orchid Council’s annual International Orchid Show. This exciting ‘show within a show’ will be a major highlight of the breathtaking Floral Marquee and will feature displays by more than 25 – 30 specialist orchid growers, offering breathtaking displays and expert advice for orchid lovers!

Clive Lloyd and Nicky Wakley from the International Orchid Show said: “We can’t wait to be in our new home at BBC Gardeners’ World Live, sharing the secrets of these exquisite plants with a huge new audience.”

The BBC Gardeners’ World Live Floral Marquee is always a treat for the senses with its heady scents, colourful displays by specialist plant growers and nurseries, plants to buy, and feature highlights. In this year’s expanded Hot Off The Potting Bench walk-through gallery, visitors will be able to view brand new plants and varieties close-up as they vie for this year’s Peter Seabrook Award for Best New Plant at BBC Gardeners’ World Live. Horticulturalists, Lucy Chamberlain and Saul Walker will be hosting Plant Expert Workshops as well as offering one-to-one help at the popular Plant Expert advice desk and hosting garden tours and walks. Take a seat at the Floral Marquee’s Let’s Talk Plants stage to get floral advice from BBC Gardeners’ World presenters, stage sponsor Hillier’s plant specialists and special guests.  Floral Marquee sponsor, Legal & General, will again host a lounge for their retirement customers.

Also new for 2024 is the Get Growing Stage, an exciting, informal, drop-in space that’s dedicated to the joy of home growing. Garden Organic’s Chris Collins will host a daily programme of top tips and growing advice, joined by a line-up of well-known ‘Grow Your Own’ gurus, including Jason Williams (Cloud Gardener UK), Hannah Reid, Adam Kirkland and Lydia Lakemoore. Chefs from The Pig and Lime Wood hotel will be hosting alfresco cooking demonstrations on-stage, next to The Pig Allotment Garden which marks the opening of the new The Pig on the Farm near Stratford-Upon-Avon in June.

Whether your garden is postage stamp or park sized, there’s abundant inspiration at BBC Gardeners’ World Live.

Tickets for Gardeners’ World Live include entry to the Good Food Show Summer, featuring demonstrations, theatres, stages and talks, book signing, tastings and workshops, street food, and delicious food and drink to taste and buy. The show’s foodie stars include Nadiya Hussain, James Martin, Michel Roux, Becky Excell and many more. Visitors can dine in style by booking a sit-down meal at the Good Food Restaurant, inspired by the country’s leading food website, goodfood.com.

Tickets for BBC Gardeners’ World Live at the NEC Birmingham (13-16 June), including entry to Good Food Show Summer, are on sale now at www.bbcgardenersworldlive.com

DISCOUNT CODES:

GARDENS20: 20% off standard adult/concession entry tickets (applies any day), offer expires 23:59 on 9 May 2024

GARDENS15: 15% off standard adult/concession entry tickets (excl. Saturday), offer starts 10 May, expires 23:59 on 6 June 2024

*Discounts valid on adult/concession standard entry tickets. Not valid on VIP, 2-day tickets, added extras or with any other offer. £3.95 transaction fee per advance order. Details correct at time of print.