Rachel de Thame will share gardening advice at the Spring Fair on Sunday 5 May and at the Autumn Fair on Saturday 31 August, 2024.

We’re delighted to announce that BBC2 Gardeners’ World presenter, Rachel de Thame, will join the expert line-up at the BBC Gardeners’ World Fairs in 2024.

Come to the Fair on Sunday 5 May or Saturday 31 August, to see Rachel on the BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine stage sharing top tips and expert know-how to help you get the most our of your spring garden. Gardeners’ World Magazine subscribers can also see Rachel in the Club Lounge.**

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Rachel is a broadcaster, writer and passionate gardener.  Trained at The English Gardening School, she has been a regular presenter on BBC2’s Gardeners’ World since 1999. Rachel is also a long-term member of the team providing coverage of all the major RHS Flower Shows, for which she co-anchored several episodes in 2021. Rachel’s other television series include Small Town Gardens and Gardening with the Experts for the BBC and Countrywise for ITV. A Good Read for BBC Radio 4 and Essential Classics for BBC Radio 3 are among her radio appearances.

The author of three gardening books, with her latest title ‘A Flower Garden for Pollinators’, coming in April 2024, Rachel is also a gardening columnist for the Sunday Times and The Garden magazine for the RHS, and her writing commissions for other publications include BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine and The Huffington Post.

Design projects range from the LK Bennett Garden at Chelsea Flower Show 2008 and the floral decorations for the Royal Barge, during the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant in 2012, to bespoke planting plans for private gardens. Rachel co-curated the RHS London Rose Show in 2016 and has been the key speaker and/or host for talks and events at The Ashmolean Museum, The Garden Museum, Highgrove, Hever Castle, The Charleston Garden Festival and The Royal Geographical Society. Rachel is Vice President of wild flower charity Plantlife, and an Ambassador for The National Garden Scheme. She has also supported Flowers From the Farm – the network for the UK’s cut flower growers – since its inception.

The mother of four children, Rachel’s interests beyond horticulture include the performing and fine arts, history, antiques and crafts of all kinds.  She is currently restoring the garden – including walled vegetable, herb and cut flower beds – and interiors at her home in the Cotswolds, where country walks and wildlife spotting are welcome distractions. She says visiting gardens and specialist growers still makes her feel like a kid in a sweetshop.

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