Join Plantlife's Matt Pitt, Meadows Adviser at Plantlife, in conversation with Tiffany Danneff from Country Life. They will be discussing how Plantlife works with famers and landowners to increase the biodiversity in their grasslands

Plantlife is the international conservation charity working to secure a world rich in wild plants and fungi. Plantlife is the only UK membership charity dedicated to conserving wild plants and fungi in their natural habitats and helping people to enjoy and learn about them. Plantlife works across all key plant ecosystems and habitats with a particular focus in the UK on grasslands and temperate rainforests due to their acute vulnerability and number of at-risk species.

Zoe Levey, Editor of Wildflower Magazine, will be in conversation with one of the UK’s most loved garden writers and gardeners, Clare Foster – to share tips and know-how from her celebrated book on growing flowers from seed, The Flower Garden.

Edward has spent the last 30 years working in some of Britain’s finest buildings. He is a leading interior designer, architectural historian and ‘colourman’. Giles will talk to Edward about his new book, ‘ The Colourful Past: Edward Bulmer and the English Country House’ and what he has learnt restoring some of Britain’s most important heritage buildings, bringing his expert knowledge to conservation and his design flair to the creation of new spaces for modern living.

Writer and presenter, Pippa Vosper, most noted for her honest series of features for British Vogue, will be hosting an intimate conversation with acclaimed author, Clover Stroud - Stroud’s writing is enthralling: she holds nothing back. She is an author who plunges deep into life’s most ordinary yet elusive matters: trauma, motherhood, and, with her most recent book, The Red of My Blood, death and loss.

Hosted by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall explore the importance of soil health and its vital role in our ecosystem while discussing what we need to do in order to secure its future. Hugh is joined by The Land Gardeners, chef Lulu Cox and artist Nancy Cadogan to hear about their acclaimed new book, Soil to Table, exploring the link between the health of our soils and what we eat.

Within the discussion, Hugh will delve into recipes and inspiration for his newly launched book, River Cottage Good Comfort; Best-Loved Favourites Made Better for You.

Book signing will take place after the talk.

Join Dipal Acharya, executive editor, ES Magazine, for a thought-provoking conversation with Helena Lee, features director, Harper’s Bazaar, about her celebrated anthology, East Side Voices. Helena’s bold, first-of-its kind, collection of essays and poetry invites us to explore a dazzling spectrum of experience from the East and Southeast Asian diaspora living in Britain today.

A strong, authentic interior scheme should work to accommodate artworks in their own right. Fiona McKenzie Johnston, Arts Editor, House & Garden talks to Lyndsey Ingram, Rebecca Gordon and Turner Pocock about building an art collection and creating interiors spaces that work hard to celebrate creativity and imprint the ethos of the individual in a home.

At dusk, the water meadows take on an almost ethereal quality. Join us for an inspiring and educational talk in the meadows with Plantlife’s specialist grassland advisor, Matt Pitts, Tiffany Daneff of Country Life, and artist and author of Wildflowers for the Queen, Hugo Rittson-Thomas.