Toby Buckland’s annual garden festival at Powderham Castle, Devon, is fast becoming recognised as one of the most important events of its kind in the South West, attracting celebrity gardening experts and providing an annual rendezvous for enthusiastic gardeners and award-winning regional nurseries.
Next year's festival on 1 and 2 May will be a bigger event with the same mixture of some of the country’s best plant specialists plus gardening craft and equipment stalls, entertainment and high quality local food producers.
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Active Devon is celebrating all things Ping!Exeter with an event at Exeter Castle.
On Thursday 4 September, from 6pm-8pm, Active Devon will be holding ‘Ping of the Castle’, which will feature a workplace table tennis tournament, music and entertainment - all in the name of Ping!Exeter 2014.
There will be food on sale as well with a chance for everyone to get active, have fun and enjoy a celebration of Ping! Exeter. All abilities and all ages welcome, there will be free for all Ping after 8pm at the castle. For more information visit www.activedevon.org/pingofthecastle or...
A wonderful weekend of live entertainment and a large selection of local beers
Public Service Broadcasting and Baka Beyond will be headlining the stage on 27 September. Zuri Aura, Keiko Rise, Jason Baxter have also been confirmed.
Get down for great music, food and of course a range of delicious beer.
Gloucestershire’s acclaimed Festival Players are taking an all-male tour of William Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors across the UK and into Europe this summer. The tour will head to Devon on Thursday, August 21st to the picturesque setting of Exeter’s 14th century Powderham Castle.
Directed by Minack Theatre’s former artistic director, Michael Dyer, and with music from 70’s folk musician Jonny Coppin, the play tells of a master and his servant arriving in a foreign port which, unbeknown to them, is the home of their long-lost twin brothers. Mayhem ensues in a riotous train of...
Round off the summer with another chance to see "A Millennium of Monarchs" where puppets and live action bring you exciting facts about on thousand years of England's kings and queens. Which is your favourite royal?
There will be a Kings & Queens Trail for children to follow around the grounds to win a prize as well as all the usual wonderful attractions.
Sessions take place at set times throughout the day. Pick up your session ticket on arrival. This event is included in a child's standard admission. (Children returning with a free return ticket or a discounted ticket...
Go along to Powderham Castle on Easter Sunday for the 10th Silly Mini Sunday.
Watch a convoy of minis drive through the courtyard in the afternoon - a great spectacle and something any mini enthusiast in particular will want to see.
The theme this year is 'Under the Sea' so expect to see wave of minis and their drivers dressed accordingly to raise money for Children's Hospice Southwest.
Expected time of arrival 2.30pm. (Included in Castle admission)
This year the Powderham Food Festival is celebrating ‘Pickling, Potting & Preserving’ from ancient roots to space food technology. The festival takes place on 5th October 2013, and is sponsored by Helpful Holidays, the leading holiday cottage specialists in the South West.
The event will celebrate food and food-growing in a spectacular location – Powderham Castle: an exceptional, family run 600-year-old stately home which is situated beside the picturesque Exe estuary, and surrounded by stunning deer park.
There will be over a hundred producers exhibiting in the castle...
