The Plant Fair Roadshow returns to Ramster Garden 27th April 2025
- ramstergarden
- Apr 22
- 4 min read
This year's Plant Fairs Roadshow, a unique and unmissable event for garden enthusiasts, offers a diverse range of high-quality plants and expert advice, making it a must-attend for both seasoned and amateur gardeners.
Join us for the Plant Fairs Roadshow at Ramster Garden on April 27, 2025, from 10am to 3pm. Tickets cost £10 and includes entry to Ramster Garden.
This exceptional event, organised by a celebrated collective of independent nurseries from the South East, offers you an exclusive chance to connect with friendly and knowledgeable growers. You will be able to experience a vibrant variety of plants and embrace the splendour of Ramster Garden, renowned for its breathtaking collection of rhododendrons and azaleas, where many species are already bursting into colour.
The plant fair is a fantastic opportunity for plant enthusiasts and gardening fanatics to purchase a diverse range of high-quality plants, including rare and unique species. You will also receive invaluable expert advice on plant care and gardening techniques.
Gold-medal-winning Chelsea exhibitors
Among this year's exhibitors are the gold winners of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Visit Daisy Roots, which prides itself on growing a wide range of strong, healthy perennials and ornamental grasses, including drought-tolerant plants.
Do not miss the No Name Nursery, who have a genuine love of perennials and exotics. They hold four national collections of plants, including persicaria virginiana cv's, dark-leaved dahlia, pseudopanax cv's and plectranthus.
Get creative with Hardys Cottage Garden Plants; they do not just grow a vast collection of herbaceous perennials but also breed and propagate their own plants. Anemone' Frilly Knickers' was awarded RHS plant of the year in 2020.
If you have a shady garden, visit Moore and Moore Plants, which specialises in rare and unusual plants for shade, woodland, and clay soils. They also have an interesting collection of plants which will attract pollinators to your garden.
Meet last year's gold medal winner, Pelham Plants Nursery, and explore their hardy herbaceous perennials and grasses range.
Cottage garden favourites
Enjoy timeless classics at the Cottage Garden Plants stand. They specialise in plants that have become out of fashion or are challenging to find, as well as old cottage garden favourites.
Gransfield Plants is also passionate about bringing back British heritage varieties and their family history of growers. They honour each generation with a variety grown in their name.
Swallowfields Nursery offers a range of cottage garden favourites alongside unusual herbaceous perennials, including a growing collection of auriculas.
If you have a walled garden, visit Roseland House Nursery, which sells climbing plants and wall shrubs. They are National collection holders of Clematis viticella and Lapageria rosea cultivars.
Drought tolerant plants
With our increasingly hot and dry summers, you will find lots of exhibiting nurseries specialising in drought-tolerant plants. Copton Ash focuses on propagating drought-tolerant plants, from alpines and mediterranean-style plants to woodlanders, including snowdrops.
Beechbridge Plants also grow mostly hardy, herbaceous perennials and grasses, including many that are drought-tolerant once established. Discover great plants for bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
Quirky and overseas-inspired plants
Charles Hurst Farm Nursery aims to build its collection of rare species and varieties of shrubs and small trees. Specialities include richly fragrant and much sought after Daphnes including the rarely offered dwarf forms, and the spectacular climber Lapageria. Madrona Nursery also has a broad selection of rare and usual plants.
Introducing a touch of oriental design is Miles Japanese Maples, which has over fifty different Acer palmatum cultivars in assorted sizes. Also introducing plants from overseas are family-run Eleplants who grow a range of Southern hemisphere plants, including Grenvillea, Proteas and Leptospermums.
The Plant Fairs Roadshow has something for everyone
From woodland and shade-loving plants by Long Acre Plants to hardy herbaceous plants from Phoenix Perennial Plants and spring and autumn flower bulbs from Riverside Bulbs, the range of plants and nurseries involved in the Plant Fairs Roadshow (PFR) promises to be extensive in 2025.
This event is bursting with inspiration and community spirit. It is a must-attend for seasoned and amateur gardeners who want to transform their garden with new, interesting home-grown plants you will not find in the garden centre.
At the event, you will have the unique opportunity to take home specific knowledge of the plant delivered by the people who have grown it. For example, Dan Cooper Garden publisher of The Frustrated Gardener's acclaimed blog, pairs his garden products with expert advice. This is a chance to learn from the best in the industry and be inspired to transform your garden. You can even bring home a new garden ornament from Branching Out.
Tickets cost £10 and includes entry to Ramster Garden
Tickets to The Plant Fairs Roadshow include entry to Ramster Garden. As part of your visit, you can explore the historic woodland garden, which spans twenty-five acres and is famous for its extensive collection of rhododendrons and azaleas that burst into a breathtaking spectacle of colour during spring. Explore the woodland paths to see carpets of vibrant bluebells and discover enchanting sculptures and natural carvings.
Round up your visit with morning coffee, lunch, or afternoon tea at Ramster Tea House, which serves a delicious menu of sweet and savoury homemade food.
