Food for thought
Good Lifers will find much to inspire at The Edible Garden Show, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, from Friday to Sunday. There will be stalls devoted to home-grown produce and advice on keeping chickens, bees and pigs, as well as how to cook what you raise. Entry £11 in advance or £13 on the gate.
0845 270 6800, www.theediblegardenshow.co.uk
Wild at heart
Charles Flower will give a lecture on how to bring wild flowers back to our gardens and public spaces at the Garden Museum, London SE1, at 6pm on Thursday. Tickets £15.
020 7401 8865, gardenmuseum.eventbrite.com
Open season
There will be an open day at Ashwood Nurseries, near Kingswinford, West Midlands, on Saturday, 10am-4pm, to show off its spring flowers. Entry £4.
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01384 401996, ashwoodnurseries.com
Orchid hunters
The RHS is holding its annual London Orchid and Botanical Art Show on Saturday and Sunday at the RHS Horticultural Halls, on Greycoat Street, London SW1. It will include the first International Slipper Orchid symposium (on Sunday), at which experts will lecture on new breeding lines, cultivation and natural habitats for this most elegant of flowers. There is a preview evening on Friday.
020 7649 1885, rhs.org.uk
Cornish cream
Pentillie Castle, near Saltash, Cornwall, is holding an open day at its Humphry Repton-designed gardens on Sunday, 11am-4pm. Primroses, camellias and early rhododendrons should be in flower. Entry £6.
01579 350044, pentillie.co.uk