RHS Garden Bridgewater

📢 The Greater Manchester Green Spaces Fund is now open! 🌳

That's right - the fund that's already enabled 122 community groups to improve 400,000m2 of green space across the city region has re-opened for 2026.

Want to create a community garden? Green up an urban alleyway? Restore an allotment to its former glory?

You can apply for grants between £2,000 - £40,000 if you're a Greater Manchester-based community group with plans to increase the amount of accessible, nature-rich green space where people need it most.

Visit https://gmet.org.uk/green-spaces-fund for more information and to apply. Deadline 3rd August 2026.

🌿📚 Calling all educators!

Join us at RHS Garden Bridgewater for a special Educator Open Evening – a relaxed and inspiring event designed just for those working in education.
🗓 Friday 12 June
🕓 4pm–6pm
🎟 Free entry

Come along to:
✨ Discover the wide range of learning opportunities available to schools, including the RHS Campaign for School Gardening, National Education Nature Parks and more
🌱 Take part in hands-on, curriculum-linked gardening activities – with plenty of ideas to take back to your classroom
🤝 Connect with like-minded educators passionate about bringing nature into children’s learning
☕ Enjoy light refreshments in a welcoming, informal setting
Plus, make an evening of it! Your visit includes complimentary access to Bridgewater Late (6pm–9pm) – with music, food and a chance to explore the garden at sunset 🌅

This event is open to teachers, support staff and anyone working in education.

📩 Questions? Email: [email protected]
👉 Book your place: https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/rhs-garden-bridgewater/viewevent?EFID=5597&ESRC=CMS

It was wonderful to welcome Aspire to the Community Wellbeing Garden back to the garden during Dementia Action Week for their annual service to remember those affected by and lost to Dementia - a touching service followed by seed sowing on a beautiful, sunny afternoon.💚

Visiting the gardens this Half Term?
Don’t forget to stop by our garden centre – we’ve got a lovely range of children’s toys and books, including games, jigsaws and those ever‑popular Jellycats 🧩🧸📖

📷 RHS/Grace Marr

☀️ The sun has shown up just in time for the first day of our Great Garden Game-a-thon at RHS Garden Bridgewater, and it’s the perfect excuse to get outside this weekend!

Bring the family (or round up some friends) and spend the day enjoying giant garden games scattered across the garden, from chess and Jenga to Connect Four, noughts & crosses and more. There’s plenty of space to roll out a picnic, relax on the lawns, or even lose yourself in the meadow maze for a little extra adventure.

If you’re planning a visit on Bank Holiday Monday, make sure you stop by the east lawn where will be getting everyone involved with plate spinning, diablo, hula hooping and juggling.

With activities running every day until 31 May, there’s lots to explore all week long. Under 5s go free and tickets for ages 5–16 are just £6, so it’s a great day out for everyone.

To see what’s on, visit: https://bit.ly/4kQgI1R

Feeling inspired by the Chelsea Flower Show?

Bring that magic home. Shop many of the incredible plants lighting up the season in our garden centre – all chosen to help your garden steal the show. 🌿✨

📷 The RHS and The King’s Foundation Curious Garden. Designed by Frances Tophill. Feature Garden. RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026. Site no. 329 RHS/Lee Charlton

You say tomato… we say let’s grow! 🍅🌱

Join our Gardening Advice dream team, Andy and Clare, for Tomatoes: Tips, Trials and Triumphs on Wednesday 27 May 2026, 3pm – 3.30pm.

This relaxed 30-minute tomato tutorial (with Q&A afterwards) is packed with top tips, troubleshooting tales and triumphant techniques. From sowing seeds to savouring sun-ripened success, Andy and Clare will share how to tackle troublesome pests, fine-tune feeding and master moisture management to help your plants thrive through thick and thin.

Perfect for adults of all experience levels who want to turn their tomato-growing trials into triumphs.

There’s no need to book – just come along as part of your day out in the garden.

And for even more tomato inspiration, head to the Edibles Glasshouse in the Paradise Garden, where this year’s tomato crop has just been planted up with 12 delicious varieties. 🍅