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Shows / BBC Gardeners' World Live

BBC Gardeners' World Live 2025

12–15 Jun 2025 Birmingham, United Kingdom
45
Gardens
46
Designers
31
Awarded

About

BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2025 takes place from June 12 to 15 at the NEC Birmingham, bringing together gardening enthusiasts, expert horticulturists, and food lovers for an immersive celebration of outdoor living. The show features an array of inspiring show gardens, including the headline "Plant-Based Garden" by Nick Bailey, which emphasizes sustainable gardening practices and plant-based lifestyles. Visitors explore over 25 innovative Beautiful Borders based on the theme "Cultivating Connections," offering creative ideas for compact spaces. The Floral Marquee dazzles with vibrant displays from leading nurseries and includes the spectacular International Orchid Show, showcasing thousands of orchid species and hybrids. Alongside these horticultural highlights, the event runs in conjunction with the Good Food Show Summer, creating a perfect blend of gardening inspiration and gourmet experiences for attendees.
Gardens

45 gardens catalogued

Show Gardens 9

  • A naturalistic show garden featuring large red sandstone boulders, creating raised beds filled with mixed herbaceous planting including purple spires, orange poppies, and ornamental grasses, beside a loose red gravel path.
    Midlands Air Ambulance Charity Medicinal Garden
    Lucy Chapman, Helen Swan
  • A show garden displays a large teal glass sphere sculpture amidst mixed perennial planting and trees, with aqua hanging chairs.
    QVC's Reflective Retreat
    Kitti Kovacs
  • A pyramid bug hotel with drilled logs is on a gravel path, bordered by naturalistic planting, white birch trees, and a wooden birdhouse.
    The Ecotalk Rooted in Nature Garden
    Emma O'Neil
  • A show garden with raised timber beds overflows with vibrant pink, purple, and yellow-green perennial plants and grasses, next to a curved wooden bench.
    The Garden of Reflection
    Marc Buirski
  • A vibrant show garden features a timber pergola over an outdoor kitchen, colourful mixed perennials in raised beds, and a grey paved path.
    The Greenfingers Charity Anniversary Garden
    Pip Probert
  • A contemporary show garden features a black timber shed, a triangular water feature, dark brick and gravel paths, and lush planting with lime green, purple, and yellow foliage.
    The NEW Build Garden
    Lucie Ponsford
  • A modern rustic edible garden with black timber A-frame structures, shingle roofs, an integrated bug hotel, a picnic table, and raised beds full of corn, tomatoes, and other food plants.
    The Plant Based Garden
    Nick Bailey
  • A tranquil meditation garden with a Buddha statue, lush green plants, pink astilbe, ferns, a rocky water feature, and a wooden bridge.
    Vihara Meditation Garden
    Sarah Coe
  • A naturalistic garden features a blue metal pergola with a living roof, a timber boardwalk over a pond, an insect hotel, and lush green planting.
    Where There's Water, There's Life
    Rachel Bailey

APL Avenues 3

  • A contemporary garden featuring an ornate stone fountain within a circular succulent planter, surrounded by gravel paths and a patio with stone seating.
    2050
    Vivien Moseley
  • A contemporary garden features a large silver plant sculpture in a gravel bed with stepping stones, a paved patio with a mosaic table and fire pit, and a brick garden room at the back.
    Lyn's Garden: A Garden for all Weathers
  • A contemporary garden with a black rectangular pond featuring a wavy red line, bordered by lush tropical plants, a bamboo bench, and striped grey paving.
    The Wallace Line
    Dave Hodson

Showcase Gardens 7

  • A contemporary garden featuring dark timber decking, a woven sculpture, naturalistic purple and green planting, and a picnic table against a slatted white fence and corten steel screen.
    Just a garden...
    Carleen Osborne
  • A colourful garden features black walls with colourful LEGO blocks, a red metal bench, and a dense planting of vibrant perennial flowers and tall grasses.
    LEGO Gardeners of Tomorrow Project
    Callum Corrie
  • A naturalistic showcase garden features a wooden gazebo, a stream, and a wildflower meadow with a prominent bee pebble mosaic on the timber deck.
    Nature Captured
    Tom Saunders
  • A naturalistic showcase garden with a log round wall, a stone path, yellow sunflowers, ornamental grasses, and mixed vibrant flowers.
    Sunflower Power
    Hannah Thomas
  • A showcase garden with sculptural dark charred timber posts of varied heights among vibrant green and reddish foliage.
    The Earth Heals
    Sue Arthur, Ian Potts
  • The Nectary showcase garden features a hexagonal wooden archway topped with a giant woven bee sculpture, leading to a vibrant bed of purple, blue, and yellow flowers with a small black greenhouse in the background.
    The Nectary
    Kate Patrick
  • A vibrant showcase garden is filled with abundant pink and purple flowers, including Lychnis and Hydrangeas, interplanted with tall grasses and dark leaves.
    Think, all things Pink
    Samantha Stringer

Beautiful Borders 26

  • A British Rainforest border showcases a moss-covered tree stump, surrounded by lush ferns, woodland plants, and a winding pebble path.
    A British Rainforest
    Chris North
  • A vibrant raised timber garden border with a central mossy log pile, white flowering dogwood trees, a bright yellow Japanese maple, and diverse mixed perennials.
    After the end
    Alex Valk
  • A raised timber border garden showcases young apple trees, a white metal bench, a tiered rusty water feature, a brick path, and vibrant perennial flowers.
    Apple Core Values
    Isabel Sabine
  • A raised wooden sleeper border garden features naturalistic planting with white and purple flowers, grasses, and a rust-coloured metal bird bath.
    A Time for Peace
    Rachael Deterville
  • A colourful garden border featuring a central reflective pool, a tiered stone water feature, and mixed perennials, enclosed by a raised timber edge.
    Bud and Blossom 'Reflection' Garden
  • A sensory border garden with black screens, a heart mirror, central water feature, and white and pink foxgloves on Celtic knot paving.
    Calon Lân 5 Senses Garden
    Emma Yousef
  • A beautiful border garden features a log slice path, mushroom stools, a wooden structure with vertical planting, and purple and green plants.
    Connecting with nature: a sustainable haven for wildlife
    Sandrine Hughes
  • A bronze-effect spiral sculpture rises from a gold-leaf planter filled with purple sweet peas and blue flowers, set within a sunny border.
    Cultivating Connections - Connecting with Myself
    Stuart Gibbs
  • A beautiful border garden features a small purple and white shed, a dry stone wall, and a wooden gate with a floral hanging basket in a raised timber bed.
    Family, Nature and Neighbours
    David Blythe
  • A beautiful border features a woven willow arch tied with rope, sheltering a stone bird bath with bronze child figures, amidst blue Nigella and white wildflowers.
    From Maiden to Mother
    Donna Sutton
  • A rustic raised garden border features a mini greenhouse, iron arch, stone bird bath, and wooden beds filled with mixed colourful flowers.
    Gardens Apart
    Jade Dinwiddy
  • A beautiful border in a timber raised bed features a pallet screen with insect hotels, a gabion bench, and many colourful plants.
    Interwoven
    Sophie Howden
  • A naturalistic border features ferns, wild plants, and a soil path with two hiking boots, framed by a timber-raised bed and a mossy birch log.
    Living Connections
    Danielle Telfer
  • A Beautiful Borders garden features a moss-covered figure, a recycled dress sculpture, and a wooden bench, set in vibrant mixed planting.
    Nature's Resilience
    Hannah Becket
  • A charming border garden features a wooden pergola covered in climbers, a winding brick path, and a wrought iron bistro set surrounded by pink hydrangeas, purple foxgloves, and lavender.
    Nourishing the Soul
    Laura Whiskens
  • A naturalistic garden border features a winding stone path, light gravel, black metal trellises with climbers, a large agave, and colourful drought-tolerant plants.
    Putting Down Roots
    Victoria Benjamin
  • A vibrant raised garden border features a large dark slug sculpture, copper rings, and a colourful display of orange and purple flowers.
    Slugs and snails, making friends with our foes!
    Deborah Mole
  • A whimsical garden with a round green hobbit door, a winding gravel path, raised beds of edible plants and lavender, and a wooden arch.
    Small but mighty
    Zoe Grady
  • A vibrant dry border garden densely planted with pink, purple, blue, yellow, and orange flowers, featuring weathered timber posts and a pebble path.
    Super Blooms! A high-energy dry border for people, plants and pollinators
    Rhoda Parry
  • A raised timber garden border frames a natural stone stepping path leading to a wooden bench, all beneath a large circular metal arch, with naturalistic planting of yellow, orange, and cream flowers and grasses.
    The Golden Hour
    Ellen Tozer
  • A contemporary show garden with a winding grey gravel path, dark red foliage plants in raised timber beds, a telescope, and a spherical copper ornament.
    The Milky Way
    Wouter Leyssen
  • A lush, tranquil garden border with rust-orange Corten steel screens, a flagstone path, and green plants featuring white, pink, and purple flowers.
    The Newborn Garden
    Jane Eastwood
  • A contemporary garden border features dark charred timber posts, a rusted metal water bowl with stones, and a vibrant mix of purple salvia, pink foxgloves, and green foliage.
    The One to Three Border
    Anita Rose
  • This raised timber border garden features a small wooden bridge over white pebbles, lush plantings of purple and white flowers, silver foliage, and tall grasses.
    The Wonder Garden
    Anthony Massie
  • A rustic garden border features a curved timber table, a tree stump seat, white foxgloves, and a woven branch screen with pinned notes.
    To be or not to be
    Emma Mayho, Pippa Willcox
  • A beautiful border garden features a white gravel path with wooden stepping stones, a woven willow clock sculpture, and informal pink, purple, and white perennial planting surrounding a wrought iron bench.
    Willow moments and memories
    Jan O'Brien
Location

Where it happens

National Exhibition Centre
Pendigo Way
Marston Green
Birmingham
B40 1NT
United Kingdom
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