Plants Fair

Back for 2025! Our longest running event will be on the 14th & 15th June!

Join us for a full weekend of gardening joy. We will be joined by local (and not so local) nurseries and specialists who will have a vast array of plants and garden accessories for every garden and gardener!

Plus we will have a BBQ and our Gilbert White Brewery will be on hand.

Stallholders include: 

Charleshurst Farm Nursery

Specialising in shrubs and small trees including rare and unusual species

Dan Cooper Garden

High quality garden tools, seeds, seed trays, bird nesters, brushes, bee skeps

Standing & Son

Sell modern chilli’s & Old fashioned cottage garden plants many of the latter were grown by Gilbert White.

Dutch Garden Bulbs

Exotic and tropical plants and bulbs

Edulis Nursery

Perennials, shade lovers, ferns and unusual edibles

Gilbert White’s Garden Plant Stall

Interesting and unusual plants grown by our own garden team

Green Prospects

Herbaceous, shrubs.

LDB Plants

Herbaceous perennials and grasses, focusing on drought tolerant plants

Leesa’s Not Just Alpines

Excellent range of alpines and cottage garden perennials

Light Hearted Limited

Recycled metal garden sculptures made in Zimbabwe.

Lodge Hill Plants

Unusual perennials grasses and ferns

Long Acre Plants (Plants for Shade)

Unusual woodland perennials and ferns

Madrona Nursery

Unusual and rare ornamental garden plants

Oakview Nursery

Specialist in hardy salvias

Palms UK

Palm trees, pots and fertiliser

Parks Perennials

Hardy perennials, shrubs, alpines, lavender and olive trees

Peake Perennials

Ornamental grasses, unusual herbaceous perennials and bulbs

Pheasant Acre Plants

Alliums, dahlias, alstroemeria and other perennial plants and shrubs

Redmayne Perennials

Drought tolerant herbaceous and woody perennials for pollinators

Rotherview Nursery

Alpines, ferns and perennials

Seale Rose Garden

Award winning roses since 1948 and RHS medallists specialising in climbers

Spring Meadow Nurseries

Hardy perennials, lavender, shrubs and alpine

 

Don’t forget that your ticket to the Plants Fair will give you access to the whole site including the house.

This is a fundraising event.

You do not need to pre-book tickets as there will be plenty on the door, but you can pre-book using the button below

Pre-Book Tickets

Date: Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th June 2025

Times: 10:30- 16:30

Price: Adults (Over 16s) £12, Children Free

Venue: Gilbert Whites House

Directions: How to find us

 

    Gilbert Whites House

    Gilbert White was aged 7 or 8 when the White family moved from the Vicarage on Selborne’s Plestor, to this house, called ‘The Wakes’ (named after the Wake family who had lived here previously). At that time, the property would have been no more than a ‘two up, two down’ but over subsequent years several extensions and additions have been made, creating the long, sizeable house you see today.

    The rooms have been restored following descriptions in White’s own correspondence and include a chair he used at Oriel College, Oxford (loaned from the College), items of contemporary furniture, family portraits and bed hangings embroidered for him by his aunts.

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