What’s On
What’s On
Workshop 1
🌿🌸 Calling all Creative Container Gardeners 🌸🌿
Join Our Stone Planter Workshop at The Rutland Flower Show!
We’re thrilled to invite all creative and green fingered souls to an exclusive hands-on workshop where you’ll hand-finish one of Pebble Home & Garden’s best-selling CROFT Stone Tubs, complete with feet—and take home your very own artisan stone planter!
🪴 Inspired by heritage Limestone, the stunning stone pots are crafted locally using recycled and reusable materials, organically inspired and eco-friendly.
🛠️ Aprons, gloves, tools and materials are provided—just bring your enthusiasm!
🌼 Learn all the tips, tricks, and finishing techniques from Amanda, the Founder and Chief Stone Mixer
🎁 Leave with your stunning one-of-a kind hand finished CROFT tub complete with feet worth £42. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener, or a creative soul who loves to craft, this is your chance to get stuck in and create something truly special. As a Rutland Flower Show exclusive, we will even gift you a bag of our luscious homemade compost too.
📍 Where: The Rutland Flower Show : Oakham Show Ground : LE15 7TW
📅 When: Friday, Saturday, Sunday at 11am and 2.30pm. Workshop is approx 1hr.
🎟️ Tickets: £45 per person. Spaces are limited!
🪴🌸 Make something unique, grow something unforgettable
… just roll up your sleeves and let’s get creative
Workshop 2
🌱🥂 Seed Sow Along + Fizz Workshop
with Cara Thompson 🍾🌱
Cara is the founder of ‘Make it Flourish’. TV Art Director turned flower grower during the national lock down, Cara now hosts ‘Make It Flourish ’ Flower sow alongs, which started online and now presents in person around the country.
🌺 Cara has became an Advocate for community growing and sharing the joy of flowers through her own life changing experience of growing. Sowing seeds for the first time in her life during the national lock down, the seeds become seeds of hope with outcomes of flourishing joy.
🌿 Most recently Cara has lead flower sow along to celebrate 60 years of RHS ‘Britain in Bloom’ and last summer designing a community flower garden in a public park. And Last year hosting workshops for BBC Gardeners Worlds Autumn.
🏆 The Make it Flourish Garden designed by Cara at BBC Gardeners World Autumn was awarded GOLD and peoples choice award.
🌱 Choice of 6 types of Mr Fothergills seeds (different colours and sizes). Sowing Demonstration Tips on sowing. All materials and equipment provided.
📍 Where: The Rutland Flower Show : Oakham Show Ground : LE15 7TW
📅 When: Various sessions available Friday, Saturday, and Sunday between 11 – 4pm. Workshop is approx. 45mins.
🎟️ Tickets: £20 per person. Spaces are limited!
Special Guests
Adam Frost
Adam Frost has won seven gold medals at RHS Chelsea Flower Show and is a television host for Gardeners’ World. Adam recognizes that plants and gardening improve his life, and he discusses his honest, no-nonsense approach to his well-being and mental health on his tours. He has written about the link between health and gardening in Gardeners’ World magazine. Adam will have his new book, For the Love of Plants: Over 150 Plants to Bring Joy to Your Garden and Your Life to sign at the show.
Nick Hamilton
Nick Hamilton is an author of two organic gardening books as well as writing for magazines and other publications. He has appeared on BBC2’s Gardeners’ World and several other television programmes. The son of gardening legend Geoff Hamilton, Nick is a well-known horticultural expert in his own right. He trained at Writtle College before gaining experience at several wholesale nurseries prior to going into business with his dad at Barnsdale. They worked together for several years before Geoff’s untimely death. Subsequently Nick took on Barnsdale Gardens and, from 1997, opened them to the public. They continue to inspire, educate and enthral the many gardeners and non-gardeners who visit each year.
Jody Knapp
BSc (Hons) MNIMH
Jody is a qualified Medical Herbalist with a First Class Bachelor of Science degree in Herbal Medicine and a registered member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists. Jody will be bringing her scientific knowledge of the medicinal properties of plants both growing here in the UK and further afield and their potential use in preventative medicine whilst entwining the historical uses of herbal medicine – quoting some of the great physicians of the past. Jody will also discuss what can be foraged locally in our hedgerows and how to prepare these pickings into teas, tinctures, and recipes at home. Growing tips will be given on how to grow plants in your own green spaces that may provide health benefits to you. Plants have a long and fascinating history of being used as medicine and Jody will interactively share stories of this with cuttings available to feel, smell, and even taste.
Ben Cross
Ben is an award winning 4th generation grower at Crosslands Flower Nursery which was established in 1936 in West Sussex and is one of the last flower nurseries in the UK producing cut flowers in a full colour range all year-round. Ben also only employs local people and more importantly does apprenticeship schemes with local horticultural colleges and goes into floristry colleges to give his ‘British Flowers Rock’ Talks. Next to being a fulltime grower, Ben is an avid campaigner for British Flowers and takes any opportunity he can to spread the word that British Flowers Rock! Ben won the Grower Award in 2019, 2022 and 2024! And won the Gold Sussex Environmental award in 2020 and a RHS Chelsea Gold Medal in 2024. Ben donated his blooms to St Richards Hospital in Chichester, Surrey Hospital and West Sussex care homes during the COVID 19 lockdowns.
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) Flypasts
The first day of the show, 15 August 2025, will be the 80th anniversary of Victory Japan (VJ) day, thus ending the second world war. In order to mark the occasion, many of our competition displays will be themed around this momentous event. We will be joined by the RAF BBMF aircraft throughout weekend, thrilling us with some spectacular flypasts!