What’s On – Hellens Garden Festival

Hellens Garden Festival ‘Re-Imagined’

‘Hellens Garden Festival Reimagined’, will be an online, creative digital event on the 22nd & 23rd August 2020.

This exciting new format, hosted on our website, will feature live talks, herbal workshops, virtual dowsing and much more.

Not to be missed is our live forum talk ‘Gardening for the Planet’ with acclaimed Author, Columnist and Gardener Tamsin Westhorpe and guests at 12pm on Saturday 22nd. On Sunday, at 12pm Paul Rutter of ‘Plantlife’ will be delivering a talk entitled ‘Reconnecting the landscape for Biodiversity and the People’.

Also being released over the weekend is our new film, ‘A stroll through the gardens and grounds of Hellens’, where you can find out about the ancient and rare pear tree collection, the long Garden, physic garden and meadows, as well as discover which well known Chelsea Award winning Garden Designer is creating a new garden at Hellens.

All of our video content will be available via the festival’s YouTube channel. Just search for ‘Hellens Garden Festival’ and you’ll find us!

For more information on HGF REIMAGINED TALKS click here…

Sculpture Trail

Enjoy a special Sculpture Trail in Hellens gardens and woodlands from Weds 26th August to Sunday 27th September.Visit on Hellens Open Gardens days, [free admission] Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays between 10am & 6pm.

Donations from visitors to Hellens will go to the Garden Festival beneficiaries St Michael’s Hospice and Back to the Wild CIC.

Plus an exhibition in conjunction with Hellens Garden Festival…

FIELD AND ORCHARD

Selected paintings and drawings by Bridget Macdonald

THE GREAT BARN, HELLENS MANOR, MUCH MARCLE, HEREFORDSHIRE

August 26 to September 27, 2020 ~ Open on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays from 10 am to 6 pm

FREE ENTRY: DONATIONS TO ST MICHAEL’S HOSPICE AND BACK TO THE WILD

GUEST BLOGS – Whilst we are unable to come together as a community during this challenging time, some of our fantastic speakers and contributors have shared their experiences and advice, as they use the time to get in the garden and connect with nature…

We hope you enjoy reading them – Click on the links below.

Sowing Seeds, Permaculture & A More Harmonious Way of Living – Rachel Corby, May 2020.

Isolation Gardening – Hannah Genders. April 2020

30 Days of fun in the Garden this April – Tamsin Westhorpe

Say it With Wood Showcase their sustainable business

Sculptor Paul Thomas and his ‘strange artworks from recycled materials’.

The Ferme share their motto of health and vitality

What Was On – 2020

Hellens Garden Festival is an event for people, plants and the planet – we work hard to create an atmosphere that is inclusive and inspiring, a space for sharing ideas, creative collaboration and to create change for a better, more sustainable world.

Our theme this year is ‘ Together, we are the Seeds of Change ‘

There has never been a more pertinent and critical time to reduce our individual carbon footprints and take action to avert climate catastrophe. If we can work together as communities creating change, the collective results will be incredible. We have had some fantastic conversations with innovators, gardeners and people wanting to make a difference – and wonderful, exciting plans are beginning to emerge!

Many of these events will now take place at Hellens Garden Festival 12th & 13th June 2021.