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From its iconic Dry Garden to exciting new features, our Essex garden goes from strength to strength. From its iconic Dry Garden to exciting new features, our Essex garden goes from strength to strength.
Creephedge Lane, Rettendon Common, Chelmsford
RHS Garden Hyde Hall, The Hilltop Lodge
Free garden entry
Normal garden admission applies
No booking is required for this event
10am–5pm
Special Event
Join us in the Hilltop lodge and Clore Learning Centre with a select group of nurseries and growers as the Early Spring Show returns to RHS Garden Hyde Hall for 2026. Browse and buy from a great selection of beautiful and unusual spring-flowering bulbs, seeds and plants. Talks in the Thatched Barn Saturday 21st March 10:45am: RHS Plant Advisory: Jobs to do in spring 11:45am: RHS trials, focusing on the Aubrieta, Arabis and Aurinia trial at Hyde Hall 2pm: Straight Mile Nursery Gardens: Epimediums - Great plants for shady places Sunday 22nd March 10:45am: Moore & Moore Plants: A Year of Shady Characters - A plant for the shade border for each month of the year 11:45am: RHS Plant Advisory: Jobs to do in spring
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The RHS is the UK’s gardening charity, helping people and plants to grow - nurturing a healthier, happier world, one person and one plant at a time.
