Houseplant Weekend

Special Event
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31
Jan
2
Feb

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.

    This event takes place in the Welcome Building and garden. To enter the garden, please pre-book a time slot ahead of your visit.

Overview

  • Event times

    Garden opens at 10am, last entry is at 3pm and garden closes at 4pm.

    All talks and demonstrations will take place in the Learning Studios in the Welcome Building.
    RHS Plant Advisory will be open between 10am and 2pm each day.
    There will be a small traders market selling plants, flowers, candles and hand-designed cards based in the gift shop open from 10am to 4pm each day.
     

    Friday 31st January
    10.30am–11.00am  Local florist theflowerstopatbridgewater will be demonstrating how to arrange your blooms to show them off at their best in your home.

    Jen Horseman –Surviving in style – The fascinating world of cacti and succulents                
    11.30am–12.15pm
    Jen is one of the National Education Nature Park team at the RHS and is passionate about cacti and succulents. Find out about the wide variety of these fascinating plants, and their talents for survival, making them a great low-maintenance houseplant choice!

    Lynne Tudor – Retail Manager – The Right Place for the Right Plant
    12.45pm–1.15pm
    Lynne is the retail manager at Bridgewater and will talk us through how to choose the right plant for the space you have in your room. Is it sunny, dark, small or large, Lynne will help you find a plant that will thrive in that space.

    Jen Horseman – Surviving in style – The fascinating world of cacti and succulents                 
    1.45pm–2.30pm
    Jen is one of the National Education Nature Park team at the RHS and is passionate about cacti and succulents. Find out about the wide variety of these fascinating plants, and their talents for survival, making them a great low-maintenance houseplant choice!

    Andy Vernon & Clare Preston-Pollitt – How to help your houseplants through the Winter months   
    3pm–3.30pm
    Andy and Clare are part of the RHS Advisory team and are very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about all things plants. Hear how you can keep your houseplants alive through the Winter.

    Saturday 1st February
     Our Host for today is Tony Le Britton who is a houseplant expert better known as Not Another Jungle. He has over 230,000 followers on Instagram and is the author of the book “Not Another Jungle” and owner of two houseplant stores with the same name    . 
     
    Leo Yaffe – How houseplants can be beneficial to your wellbeing                    
    10.30am–11.00am
    Leo is with the RHS Bridgewater on a Professional Work Placement in Wellbeing and Communities.  He will tell us about houseplants and how they are beneficial for our Wellbeing.
     
    Joe Bagley – Houseplant SOS Easy Tips for caring for your houseplants                              
    11.30am–12.15pm
    Joe Bagley, also known as The Houseplant Doctor, is the author of ‘How to Make Your Houseplants Love You’ that’ll be released in March 2025. He runs the ad-free website, ukhouseplants.com, to influence and teach people about houseplant care in a simplistic and standardised way.
      
    Dr Paul Dibley – A Guide to Growing Up with Houseplants                                              
    Paul runs Dibleys Nurseries and will tell us all about his life in the family business as well as exploring the World of Streptocarpus and other Houseplants.
      
    Joe Bagley – Houseplant SOS Easy Tips for caring for your houseplants                   
    1.45pm–2.30pm
    Joe Bagley, also known as The Houseplant Doctor, is the author of ‘How to Make Your Houseplants Love You’ that’ll be released in March 2025. He runs the ad-free website, ukhouseplants.com, to influence and teach people about houseplant care in a simplistic and standardised way.
      
    Andy Vernon & Clare Preston-Pollitt– Delightful Dendrobiums and Marvellous Moth Orchids              
    3pm–3.30pm
    Andy and Clare are part of the RHS Advisory team and are very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about all things plants. Do you struggle keeping your orchids alive, then this is the talk for you. Learn how to care for them to keep them thriving.

    Sunday 2nd February
    Our host today is Joe Bagley, also known as The Houseplant Doctor. He is the author of ‘How to Make Your Houseplants Love You’ that’ll be released in March 2025. He runs the ad-free website, ukhouseplants.com, to influence and teach people about houseplant care in a simplistic and standardised way.
     
    Freddies Flowers – How to arrange your flowers                                                                                
    10.30am–11am
    Freddies Flowers are an online florist. Their seasonal stems are available to buy online as a subscription or as a one off gift. They are here to demonstrate how to arrange your flowers once they’ve been delivered through your letterbox.
     
    Tony Le Britton – How to never kill a houseplant again                                               
    11.30am–12.15pm
    Tony Le-Britton is a houseplant expert better known as Not Another Jungle. He has over 230,000 followers on Instagram and is the author of the book “Not Another Jungle” and owner of two houseplant stores with the same name.
     
    Faye Howells – Right place for the right plant                                                                                       
    12.45pm–1.15pm
    Faye works at RHS Bridgewater in our Community Grow area of the garden working with local community groups teaching them how to get the best our of their crops, whether it be food produce or cut flowers. Faye will tell us which plant goes in which place. Do you have a window that needs decorating with a plant – which one would thrive? Do you have a dark corner – are there any plants that would like to live there? Faye will explain all this to us.
     
    Tony Le Britton – How to never kill a houseplant again                                                 
    1.45pm–2.30pm
    Tony Le-Britton is a houseplant expert better known as Not Another Jungle. He has over 230,000 followers on Instagram and is the author of the book “Not Another Jungle” and owner of two houseplant stores with the same name. 
     
    Andrew Vernon and Clare Preston-Pollitt – Refreshing, repotting and dividing your houseplants     
    3.00pm–3.30pm
    Andy and Clare are part of the RHS Advisory team and are very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about all things plants.  Join this demonstration of how you can be quite brutal with your houseplants to grow your collection or pass on to friends and family or just to help them thrive. 
     

  • Skill level

    General

  • Subject

    Special Event

  • Topic

    Houseplants

Come along to RHS Garden Bridgewater for our Houseplant Weekend. This event will give you the knowledge and expertise to turn your interest in houseplants into a hobby. From talks and demonstrations to plant advisory sessions and great shopping opportunities – it is the perfect January pick-me-up. You might not be ready to venture out into the garden, so why not bring the garden inside.

Spaces on all talks, workshops and demos are available on a first come, first served basis (unless otherwise stated). Once the room capacity is reached, we will not be able to allow any further entries

Please note: Visitors are not permitted to bring their own plants onto site, but are more than welcome to come with questions and queries for our experts.

Our ticket is for entry to the garden and does not guarantee you a space on any talks, workshops or demos.

Get involved

The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity. We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place.