RHS Malvern Spring Festival will return to Three Counties Showground from 11 - 14 May 2023, with tickets now on sale.

The festival will open the 2023 RHS floral show season with an abundance of flowers and plants, a mouth-watering food and drink offering, a star-studded line up of special guests and expert horticulturalists, plus lots of entertainment for all ages.

Celebrating the 2023 festival theme ‘Gardening for Everyone’, there will be a brand-new Tips & Tricks Area hosted by designer/upcycler and TV presenter Max McMurdo, where visitors can learn how to creatively upcycle or reuse items to make features in their own outdoor space, and pick up plenty of handy cost-saving and sustainability tips.

Max will be joined throughout the weekend by special guests (full festival line-up to be announced in February) sharing their own top tips for upcycling, reusing or cost-saving.

Meanwhile a new Bloom & Grow Area will offer visitors the chance to pick up tips from horticultural experts and TV gardening personalities on growing vegetables, flowers, herbs and other edible plants at home or in an allotment. The new Bloom & Grow Theatre will be hosted by horticultural broadcaster, author and wellbeing advocate, Ellen Mary, who will be joined by a host of expert special guests from the world of floristry and gardening.

Cooking expert and founder of Otter Farm, Mark Diacono, and BBQ and open fire cook, Adam Purnell (a.k.a The Shropshire Lad) will host the new Fire & Feast Theatre, where visitors can pick up alfresco cooking ideas with live demonstrations from chefs, local food producers and special guests. There will also be a range of international cuisines on offer, alongside food and drink from across the three counties of Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.

The Festival Theatre will be hosted by RHS Vice President, Design Ambassador and Gardeners’ World magazine columnist, James Alexander-Sinclair, who will be joined by a line-up of TV gardening personalities and leading horticulturalists, including BBC Gardeners’ World presenter Frances Tophill.

Jon Wheatley, an award-winning landscape designer, based in Avon, will be creating a new Grow, Gather & Sow feature garden at this year’s show. This garden will be used as a space to teach visitors about growing vegetables outdoors and undercover, fruit and trees, flowers, foraging and container growing.

The Potting Shed Theatre, also a new addition to RHS Malvern Spring Festival, will be hosted by expert horticulturalist Martin Fish. Located within the impressive Floral Marquee, a range of green fingered professionals will be on hand to share specialist gardening knowledge in a series of interesting and informative sessions.

Tickets for the RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2023 start from just £25 (with under 16s free of charge) and can be purchased at rhsmalvern.co.uk.