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Shows / BBC Gardeners' World Live

BBC Gardeners' World Live 2026

18–21 Jun 2026 The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
41
Gardens
43
Designers
40
Awarded
Gardens

41 gardens catalogued

Show Gardens 3

  • A whimsical show garden with a woven wood archway, a cobblestone path, a white unicorn sculpture, and a seating area surrounded by lavender and mixed perennials.
    The Artist's Garden
    Denise Rice
  • A naturalistic show garden features a winding stream with large grey boulders, light stepping stones on a sandy path, and lush green plants.
    The Evolution Garden
  • A modern tropical show garden featuring striking red rectangular frames, a white curved sculpture, a black pergola over a sofa, and lush green foliage with pink and orange flowers, set around a light grey paved path.
    360° tour available
    The Heart of the Jungle
    Jonathan Dakic, Briony Dakic

APL Avenues 3

  • A productive kitchen garden features red brick raised beds and a gravel path, filled with leafy greens, orange calendula, and espaliered fruit.
    Sanctuary for a Changing World
  • A rustic garden with a rusted metal arch framing a gravel path, circling a central raised edible bed with a fruit tree.
    360° tour available
    The Mill Ruins
    David G (3DG)
  • A vibrant contemporary show garden with a hot pink archway, colourful architectural rooms, upside-down umbrellas, and mixed herbaceous planting with grasses.
    360° tour available
    Umbrellas
    Dave Hodson

Showcase Gardens 6

  • A music-themed garden features a black guitar, dark bean bag, and deck with pond. Pink foxgloves, purple verbena, and dark foliage plants grow around grey rocks.
    360° tour available
    Dark Side of the Bloom
    Anthony Massie
  • A contemporary showcase garden features a black slatted enclosure, grey paving, a central stone table, and varied low green and dark red foliage plants with white flowers.
    Greenhouse Noir
    Matt Bettison
  • A vibrant sensory garden features a grey path, a wooden bench under a flowering arch, and colourful mixed planting around a water feature.
    360° tour available
    Sensed, Not Seen
    Rebecca Williams
  • A circular garden features an arch of interwoven branches, red roses, white flowers, and ferns, set within a Corten steel ring.
    360° tour available
    The Folklorians Garden
    Kate Patrick
  • A vibrant showcase garden featuring pleached purple-leaf trees, a wooden bench with bright pink cushions, and abundant planting of pink hydrangeas, dahlias, and grasses along a gravel path.
    360° tour available
    The Power of Pink Plants
    Samantha Stringer
  • A charming garden features a detailed model railway with miniature trains, station models, a white picket fence, and nostalgic railway posters.
    Trains in the Garden
    Andrew Christie

Beautiful Borders 29

  • A rustic timber raised border garden features an insect hotel, a twisted branch trellis, a galvanised tub, and green edible plants.
    42 To be continued
    Grace Wyatt
  • A creative garden border with a wooden pergola over a gravel path, featuring an artist's easel with a paint roller and a spade topped with a metal robin sculpture, surrounded by colourful mixed planting.
    A Brush Became a Spade
    Tom Brett
  • A rustic raised timber border holds a multi-tiered metal plant stand, terracotta pots, and drought-tolerant plants among scattered broken pottery.
    A Corner of the Potter's Yard
    Mali Clements, Alison Clements
  • An informal garden border features a wooden bench with open books, yellow wellington boots, a butterfly net, and an insect hotel, surrounded by lush naturalistic planting of pale pink foxgloves, purple spires, white feathery flowers, and ferns.
    A Garden Between Stories
    Fabienne Maitland Robinson
  • A beautiful border features numerous carved stone gnome figures nestled among white foxgloves, green hostas, silvery foliage, and grasses within a raised wooden bed.
    A Garden Out of Time
    Robert Harris
  • A beautiful border garden with a rustic metal trellis, bird sculptures, a bistro set, a stone path, and blue, purple, and white flowering plants.
    A Message in Bloom
    Sarah Elsley
  • A tranquil border garden features a wooden bench centered on grey flagstone paving and white gravel, surrounded by lush green shrubs, purple lobelia, and white cosmos flowers.
    A Moment to Breathe
    Chris Kelleher
  • A long raised garden border made of stacked timber sleepers is filled with a lush, naturalistic planting of pink foxgloves, purple alliums, astilbe, and mixed perennials.
    At The Bottom of the Garden
    Amber Jacklin
  • A beautiful border features a wooden signpost with motivational quotes among a variety of foxgloves, daisies, and mixed green and purple foliage, with a small insect hotel at the base.
    Back to My Roots
    Julie Haylock
  • A tranquil garden border with a white rope hammock, a circular mirror in a wooden trellis, and a path through white and purple flowers.
    By the Light of the Moon
    Kate McCallum
  • A vibrant raised timber border featuring a lush mix of white, pink, purple, and yellow flowers, ferns, and small trees, edged by large rocks and small pebbles.
    Composition in the Park
    Julia Marks, Denise Mallen
  • A blue timber archway frames a vibrant garden border with a curving paved path, flanked by colourful dahlias, salvias, and variegated willow trees.
    Echoes of water, circles of time …
  • A contemporary garden border with a carved wood sculpture, a rusty water bowl set in gravel, and colourful naturalistic planting.
    From Chaos to Calm
    Jeremy Price
  • A rustic border featuring a vintage Singer sewing machine, a burlap hanging planter with flowers, and garden tools on a wooden wall and brick paved floor.
    From Sewing to Sowing
    Annabel Davies
  • A long raised timber border contains a mix of edible plants like lettuce and climbing peas, alongside ornamental lavender and yellow flowers, with a central brick pathway.
    Grow Them On
  • A productive 'Make a Metre Matter' garden featuring L-shaped timber raised beds filled with herbs, leafy greens, berries, and yellow flowers.
    Make a Metre Matter
  • A raised timber border garden features a central maypole with pastel ribbons, surrounded by informal planting of white daisy-like flowers and green foliage.
    May Morning
    Ellen Pye
  • A beautiful border garden features a winding stepping stone path, naturalistic green and purple planting, timber raised beds, and rusty metal arch trellises.
    Nature's Journey Home
    Peter Etherington
  • A long timber raised border garden featuring two rectangular water troughs, one with a wooden cover, surrounded by mixed colourful planting and stacked birch logs.
    Once upon a Time… in my Granddad's Garden there were Hedgehogs, Frogs and Fuschias Hot and Cold
    Richard Guy
  • A playful raised timber border garden features a copper car sculpture, a toy car track, white and yellow flowers, ferns, and hostas.
    Release your inner child
    Ish Kamran
  • A rustic border features a weathered picket fence, a wooden raised bed with mixed vegetables, strawberries, and colourful flowers.
    Returning To My Roots
    Steve Walton
  • A lush, raised garden border features vibrant pink foxgloves, purple sweet peas, ferns, and a pear tree, with a small brick path.
    Return to Gothic
    Alice Pote, Georgina Spencer
  • A beautiful border garden featuring a corrugated iron shelter covered in climbing plants, a gravel path with slate pavers, a rattan chair, and naturalistic planting with grasses, silvery foliage, and purple flowers.
    Stories of Memory
    Adrian Burrows, Lucy Morton
  • A raised garden border features a dark pond with charred logs, aquatic plants, wildflowers, a small fruit tree, and woven eel traps.
    The Eel Catcher's Garden
    Nicola Stuart-Menteath
  • A beautiful border garden features a light wood picnic table on red brick paving, surrounded by a timber raised bed abundant with green plants and white, purple, and pink flowers.
    The Growing Creativity Garden
    Alex Purdon
  • A U-shaped wooden bench with cushions sits around a sandy path blooming with purple and white flowers, grasses, and hostas, with a doctor's bag.
    The Healing Legend of Ethelbert
    Joe Mayho, Pippa Willcox, Emma Mayho
  • A beautiful border with a rustic timber A-frame, rusted metal sign, shelf, and an ochre path through grasses, purple flowers, and ferns.
    The Pioneering Spirit
    Mark Selby
  • A 'Threads of Life' border features a tall sewing needle, a wire tree, an antique sewing machine, and an open wooden book among mixed planting and a gravel path.
    Threads of Life
    Jan O'Brien
  • A raised timber border garden with a central tree stump featuring a metal circular bench, surrounded by a gravel path, stepping stones, and informal mixed perennial planting with white and purple flowers.
    Through a Child's eyes
    Heather Carstens
Location

Where it happens

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