Tom Stuart-Smith & Katy Merrington In Conversation

As gardeners we sometimes kid ourselves that there might be something more enduring about our planting designs than there really is – so how do we delay succession and still have gardens with variety and complexity? How do we design our plantings and how should we maintain them to maximise longevity? Katy Merrington, our Cultural Gardener, and Tom Stuart-Smith will be in conversation, exploring the techniques you can use to slow succession down and create gardens that are resilient for the future. Sharing ideas around soils, substrates, plant combinations and ongoing care. A pop-up plant stall, open from 10am until 5pm, will allow you to purchase and take home herbaceous perennials grown by Cliff Bank Nursery in an exciting collaboration with The Hepworth Wakefield Garden. There’ll also be a specially curated selection of bulbs and garden books for sale.