Summer Garden and Outdoor Living Fair

Garden and Outdoor Living Fair

New for 2024, we will be hosting our Garden and Outdoor Living Fair in summer too!

This June, a wide range of stallholders will bring plants galore, crafts and decorative items, and other gardening goodies to help you create that ideal outdoor space and get your garden looking gorgeous this summer.

With exhibitors displaying a wide range of plants from bulbs to begonias, hostas to hydrangeas, gardening essentials and ideas on how to create that ideal outdoor space.

Join our walk and talk tours around the beautiful setting of the walled garden including tours of the Samuel Wyatt vinery.

Plant Bug Clinic with Dr Ian Bedford

Visitors will also be able to pop along to the ‘Plant Bug Clinic’ marquee to chat about their garden plant bug issues with local entomologist Dr Ian Bedford.

Dr Ian (aka the Norfolk Bug Man), is regularly seen and heard talking about bug-related topics through the media and at garden clubs throughout East Anglia, and, hosting Holkham’s Plant Bug Clinic, he’ll happily examine any specimens that you wish to bring along for him to identify.

Dr Ian will also be explaining the most environmentally-friendly ways to control problematic garden bugs and, how to encourage the beneficial ones into our gardens.

Also, we will all be aware that Britain’s native butterflies are currently in serious decline, so Dr Ian will explain how our home gardens, no matter what size they are, could provide perfect places for butterflies

to visit and safely feed on nectar-rich plants on their journey to find a mate and lay eggs.

Using environmentally friendly products that protect plants from damage without harming the garden’s wildlife, is also an important aspect of trying to help butterfly numbers to recover, so Dr Ian will be showcasing some of the products that he’s tried and tested in his own wildlife-friendly garden.

Further details on talks and exhibitors to follow.

Well-behaved dogs on leads are very welcome to come and have a sniff at what’s on offer.

Parking is complimentary at the Walled Garden and exit is via the west gates. If reentering the park to enjoy the attractions a parking charge will apply in the car park. However, you’re more than welcome to leave your car parked at the Walled Garden and take the scenic route via the lake by foot back to the Holkham Stories Experience, café, gift shop, cycle hire and ropes course.