Talks Theatres

RHS Malvern Spring Festival is the place to find inspiration for both your garden and your table. Check out what you can expect to find at the 2024 Festival below:

Festival Theatre

The 2024 Festival Theatre will boast a jam-packed timetable featuring gardening glitterati and celebrity favourites, who will inspire visitors with lively talks, fun and informative demonstrations. Visitors will also be able to take-home expert advice from the much-loved Gardeners’ Question Time.

Alan Titchmarsh MBE will be joining us in the Festival Theatre on Friday 10 May 2024.

The Festival Theatre is located on the Festival Green, where visitors can enjoy delicious street food from a wide range of vendors located in the area while performers in the band stand provide entertainment.

Check out our Special Guests page to find out who else will be appearing on this prestigious stage at the 2024 Festival (2024 Special Guests will be announced soon!).

Tips & Tricks Theatre

The Tips & Tricks stage will feature a range of experts demonstrating how to fix, make and create things for your home and garden from a range of items that perhaps you typically may not have thought of!

It will also feature a timetable of talks from a range of florists, horticultural experts and growers on topics such as growing, harvesting and maintaining florals and vegetables.

Take a look at our Special Guests page for more info on who will be featuring on the Tips & Tricks Theatre stage in 2024 (To be updated soon!).

NEW Kitchen Garden Theatre

In the new Kitchen Garden Theatre, designed by Jon Wheatley and Mark Diacono, visitors will be able to watch live cooking demonstrations from a range of talented chefs and outstanding local food producers, then take the tips, ideas and inspiration on cooking with home grown ingredients.

Check our Special Guests page for the full theatre lineup – 2024 announcements coming soon!

Potting Shed Theatre

The Potting Shed Theatre will once again be brought to RHS Malvern Spring Festival and hosted by expert horticulturalist Martin Fish.

The expert talks and Q&A sessions provided by an impressive lineup of horticultural specialists are not to be missed by those new to gardening through to those with years of experience.

For a flavour of some of the talks held last year and topics that were be covered; Jon Wheatley provided information on this Grow, Gather & Sow Garden, Rob Hardy talked about Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants and Arit Anderson discussed Growing from the Ground Up.