Talks Theatres

Festival Theatre

The 2025 Festival Theatre, will once again boast a jam-packed timetable featuring gardening glitterati and celebrity favourites, inspiring visitors with lively talks and fun and informative demonstrations. Each year, visitors can take-home expert advice from the much-loved Gardeners’ Question Time.

Gardening greats including Alan Titchmarsh CBE, Adam Frost, Rachel de Thame and many more will be appearing on stage, hosted by Nicki Chapman – click here to see the full line-up.

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.

Ruth Gwynn from Leaf Creative will dress the Theatre stage.

NEW Give It A Grow Theatre

This brand-new theatre will debut at this year’s festival, offering practical advice, inspirational talks and expert tips on plant growing.

Listen to engaging talks for both seasoned gardeners and those dipping their toe into the soil for the first time. From perfecting propagation techniques to creating serene rain gardens and ponds, how to design natural screens for garden privacy to improving soil health with the use of vital microbes – this bustling area will act as an educational hub, inspiring visitors to grow more, grow smarter and grow better.

This stage will be dressed by Camomile & Cornflowers.

Click here to see the full line-up of speakers in this theatre, hosted by The Beardy Gardener (Leigh Johnstone)

Festival of Houseplants with Green Rooms Market

This brand new area for the 2024 Festival will be back with a bang once again for the 2025 Festival. This theatre will host an impressive array of horticultural experts sharing their advice and top tips on everything from how to choose the perfect houseplant for your space, to troubleshooting advice for tricky specimens through talks, demos and drop-in or bookable workshops. Click here to find out more.

Kitchen Garden Theatre

This theatre, new to the Festival in 2024, will once again be created by award-winning designers Stonebarn Landscapes. It will feature a larger domed marquee and have a bigger focus on ‘plot to plate’, encouraging visitors to embrace the joy of growing and cooking with home-grown ingredients. This in turn will help visitors foster a deeper appreciation for sustainable living.

The theatre will be surrounded by raised beds adorned with an array of herbs, flowers and vegetables, creating a vibrant atmosphere of colours and scents and visitors will be able to enjoy live cooking demonstrations by a lineup of talented chefs and outstanding local food producers.

Click here to find out who will be appearing on this unique stage, hosted by Mark Diacono!

Potting Shed Theatre

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

The expert talks and Q&A sessions provided by an impressive lineup of horticulture specialists means this theatre is not to be missed by those new to gardening through to those with years of experience.

Book Signings

Visitors can get books signed by their favourite gardening and cookery authors after their talks in theatres across the Festival. The most recent editions of special guest’s books, along with selected gems from back catalogues, will be available from on-site independent booksellers Rossiter Books, and at signings after their talks.