BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair - 11-13 September 2026

The BBC Gardeners’ World Make a Metre Matter campaign is back! and this year, it’s coming to life in a bold, interactive way. BBC Newsround presenter and passionate allotmenteer De-Graft Mensah is teaming up with expert garden designer Lucy Chamberlain to create gardens that inspire small garden ideas and demonstrate how every metre can make a difference.

Join Andy Clarke’s Mocktail tastings at BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair for a flavour-packed tasting workshop celebrating alcohol-free drinks. Discover sparkling teas, fruit vinegars, honey syrups, ginger blends and summer cider, while learning simple techniques and insider tips to create vibrant, garden-inspired drinks at home.

Every session starts at 11am.

Each session lasts approximately 30 minutes.

Hosted by Chris Bavin

Roll up your sleeves, get hands-on with beautiful seasonal flowers, and take home something truly lovely. 
Expert-led, relaxed, and full of autumn charm, the Autumn Table masterclasses include wreath-making with Shilpa Reddy and ikebana-inspired table decorating with Jordan Weston.

Either book at the same time as tickets, or you can come back at any point to add a workshop independently.

Rachel de Thame will share gardening advice at BBC Gardeners’ World Live.

We’re delighted to announce that BBC2 Gardeners’ World presenter, Rachel de Thame, will join the expert line-up at the BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2025.

Joe Bagley is the creator of ukhouseplants.com which influences and teaches people about houseplant care in a simplistic, standardised way.
From top tips, care requirements and common issues, keeping your houseplant alive is just a scroll away. 

Ade Sellars AKA ‘The Good Life Gardener’ is an award-winning garden writer, garden designer, presenter and filmmaker, with a passion for growing food in his kitchen garden.

After working in London as a TV editor and director for many years, he re-trained with the RHS at Capel Manor before upping sticks and moving to the heart of rural Suffolk to build the kitchen garden of his dreams and launch a media and gardening business.

As well as a regular gardening presenter on the QVC channel, Ade hosted the Urban Gardening Stage at Gardeners’ World Live at the Birmingham NEC in June 2024.

The winner of The Beth Chatto Environmental Award 2023, Ade writes for several gardening magazines and gives talks and demonstrations around the country, as well as creating film content for garden shows and brands. Having filmed and created his YouTube gardening mini-series Down The Garden Path, it was picked up by ITV’s Alan Titchmarsh’s Gardening Club earlier this year and shown weekly on the programme.

Sara Ward has transformed her Victorian terraced house in London into an urban smallholding, ‘Hen Corner’, complete with chickens, honeybees, fruit trees and overflowing veg patches. Last year they harvested £3,000 worth of food from their back garden. Her recent book ‘Living the Good Life in the City’ shares some of the ways she and her family have brought city and country together, and shows that you, too, can make a difference to how you live and the food you eat.