Summer Bulb Weekend

Special Event
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Aug

RHS Garden Bridgewater, M28 2LJ

RHS Garden Bridgewater, M28 2LJ

Venue

RHS Garden Bridgewater

Booking


  • Member

    Free garden entry

  • Non-member

    Normal garden admission applies

  • No booking is required for this event. Included in garden admission, free for members.

Overview

  • Event times

    Garden opens at 10am. Last entry at 5pm and Garden closes at 6pm.

    Event is 11am–4pm

  • Subject

    Special Event


Come along to RHS Garden Bridgewater this August for our fabulous floral Summer Bulb Weekend. Enjoy spectacular colourful displays, get helpful expert advice and browse our range of stalls by specialist visiting nurseries. Blue Bell Cottage and Pheasant Acre.

Why not take part in our competition and show everyone your best flowers grown from Summer-flowering bulbs?

New and experienced growers are very welcome to take part in the competition; you don’t have to be an RHS member or a gardening expert.

Saturday 1 August
12noon–4pm Family craft Activity Table: Flower themed crafts for families

12noon–12.30pm – Ask the Judges: Q&A with our RHS Judges and Bulb experts on what makes an award-winning plant with John Gibson (RHS Judge) and Dave Hardy (Esker Farm Daffodil Nursery and RHS Bulb Expert Group member and RHS Judge)

12.50–1.20pm – Planning for Spring. Dave Hardy (Esker Farm Daffodil Nursery and RHS Bulb Expert Group member and RHS Judge) and Anne Wright (RHS Bulb Expert Group).

1.30–2pm Growing and showing dahlias with Richard Hilson (RHS Judge and RHS Bulb Expert Group member) and Jules Hardy (Esker Farm Daffodil Nursery and RHS Bulb Expert Group Member)

2.30–3pm Summer-Flowering Bulbs for the UK Garden with Muhammad Hafiz Ullah (RHS Bulb Expert Group member and RHS Judge)

Sunday 2 August 
11am–4pm – Family craft Activity Table:  Flower themed crafts for families

12noon–12.30pm – Ask the Judges: Q&A with our RHS Judges and Bulb experts on what makes an award-winning plant Rob Evans (Pheasant Acre Plants and RHS Bulb Expert Group member and RHS Judge) and Dave Hardy (Esker Farm Daffodil Nursery and RHS Bulb Expert Group member and RHS Judge)

12:50–1.20pm – Planning for Spring – Dave Hardy (Esker Farm Daffodil Nursery and RHS Bulb Expert Group member and RHS Judge).

1.30–2pm Growing and showing dahlias with Richard Hilson (RHS Judge and RHS Bulb Expert Group member) and Jules Hardy (Esker Farm Daffodil Nursery and RHS Bulb Expert Group Member)

2.30–3pm Summer-Flowering Bulbs for the UK Garden with Muhammad Hafiz Ullah (RHS Bulb Expert Group member and RHS Judge).

3.15–3.45pm Using Bulbs in garden design – Carien van Boxtel (Garden and Landscape Designer and RHS Bulb Expert Group member)



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