Biggin Hill and District Horticultural Society

Gardeners Evening Meeting October
2026-10-21 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | St Mark’s Church Hall, Church Road, Biggin Hill, Kent, TN16 3LB, United Kingdom
Gardeners Evening Meeting October – step back in to history with Sir Joseph Banks, who sailed with Captain Cook to discover new plants and who made Kew the world’s leading botanical garden.
SImon Waterfield of Historial Interpretation is well-known for his fascinating tales told to you in character and appropriate costume – so this is a horticultural talk with a difference – not to be missed!
For more info on his dramatised tales, check out Simon’s website Historial Interpretation
These Gardeners Evenings are monthly garden society meetings with Biggin Hill Horticultural Society your local friendly gardening club
All talks are free to members.
You are welcome to attend these gardeners evenings as a non-member (small charge applies) We love growing gardens and friendships, so do come along and find out for yourself.
As your local friendly gardening club, Biggin Hill Horticultural Society offers more to members than ‘just’ talks. There are always gardening sundries such as plant labels, plant feed, and even second-hand gardening books, for sale at our gardeners evenings. And you can ask members for tips as there’s generally someone who knows the answer to your question.

Autumn Flower Show 2026
2026-09-19 15:00 - 17:00 | St Mark’s Church Hall, Church Road, Biggin Hill, Kent, TN16 3LB, United Kingdom
Biggin Hill Horticultural Society’s Autumn Flower Show 2026 will be filled with fragrance from sweet peas, roses and other summer blooms. Plus seasonal veggies to compare withthe ones in your own garden.
All entries are to be staged between 8:30am and 11:45am on the morning of the Show. Judging starts at noon. They are not to be removed until after the Prize Presentation in the afternoon.
For tips on How to exhibit at shows please check out the Show section on the website, including Show Rules
NB afternoon viewing is public and free.
Refreshments – tea, coffee, homemade cake, all served with a smile
An opportunity to see what flowers and veggies grow well in our local area. Admire and be amazed by the floral displays – there’s quite a wow factor! Be impressed by the children’s classes – our next generation of gardeners and horticulturists do us proud.
Garden sundries sales table (replace those holey gardening gloves)
And a raffle (of course)
Plus the chance to chat about gardens, gardening in between mouthfuls of delicious cake
Our Autumn Show sponsor tbc
Biggin Hill & District Horticultural Society is affiliated to:
The Royal Horticultural Society
The National Dahlia Society
The Daffodil Society
The National Vegetable Society
The Kent Federation of Horticultural Societies

Gardeners Evening Meeting September
2026-09-16 20:00 - 21:30 | St Mark’s Church Hall, Church Road, Biggin Hill, Kent, TN16 3LB, United Kingdom
Gardeners Evening Meeting September – a crunchy talk from Neil Franklin about the Apples of Brogdale and their Care.
Brogdale in Kent is where you’ll find the National Fruit Collection
These Gardeners Evenings are monthly garden society meetings with Biggin Hill Horticultural Society your local friendly gardening club
All talks are free to members.
You are welcome to attend these gardeners evenings as a non-member (small charge applies) We love growing gardens and friendships, so do come along and find out for yourself.
As your local friendly gardening club, Biggin Hill Horticultural Society offers more to members than ‘just’ talks. There are always gardening sundries such as plant labels, plant feed, and even second-hand gardening books, for sale at our gardeners evenings. And you can ask members for tips as there’s generally someone who knows the answer to your question.

Gardeners Evening Meeting August
2026-08-19 20:00 - 21:30 | St Mark’s Church Hall, Church Road, Biggin Hill, Kent, TN16 3LB, United Kingdom
Gardeners Evening Meeting August –
Herbs and Herb Gardening with Marie Shallcross – whether you’d like to grow herbs for the kitchen, your pets, pollinators, their health benefits or even for historical interest or because you’d like to make a collection of your favourites, Marie will bring along some of her many herbs to illustrate her tips, ideas and anecdotes – and some herbs for sale too!
For more on Marie’s gardening talks, garden lessons and designs check out her website Plews Garden Design and for her local workshops, there’s an advert in Biggin Hill Horticultural Society’s Schedule 🙂
These Gardeners Evenings are monthly garden society meetings with Biggin Hill Horticultural Society your local friendly gardening club
All talks are free to members.
You are welcome to attend these gardeners evenings as a non-member (small charge applies) We love growing gardens and friendships, so do come along and find out for yourself.
As your local friendly gardening club, Biggin Hill Horticultural Society offers more to members than ‘just’ talks. There are always gardening sundries such as plant labels, plant feed, and even second-hand gardening books, for sale at our gardeners evenings. And you can ask members for tips as there’s generally someone who knows the answer to your question.

Gardeners Evening Meeting July
2026-07-15 20:00 - 21:30 | Kent
Gardeners Evening Meeting July is a fragrant dleight as Neil Miller shows us the Famous Roses of Hever Castle. (I’m hoping he brings along a couple to sniff)
These Gardeners Evenings are monthly garden society meetings with Biggin Hill Horticultural Society your local friendly gardening club
All talks are free to members.
You are welcome to attend these gardeners evenings as a non-member (small charge applies) We love growing gardens and friendships, so do come along and find out for yourself.
As your local friendly gardening club, Biggin Hill Horticultural Society offers more to members than ‘just’ talks. There are always gardening sundries such as plant labels, plant feed, and even second-hand gardening books, for sale at our gardeners evenings. And you can ask members for tips as there’s generally someone who knows the answer to your question.

Summer Show 2026
2026-07-11 15:00 - 17:00 | St Mark’s Church Hall, Church Road, Biggin Hill, Kent, TN16 3LB, United Kingdom
Biggin Hill Horticultural Society’s Summer Show 2026 will be filled with fragrance from sweet peas, roses and other summer blooms. Plus seasonal veggies to compare withthe ones in your own garden.
All entries are to be staged between 8:30am and 11:45am on the morning of the Show. Judging starts at noon. They are not to be removed until after the Prize Presentation in the afternoon.
For tips on How to exhibit at shows please check out the Show section on the website, including Show Rules
NB afternoon viewing is public and free.
Refreshments – tea, coffee, homemade cake, all served with a smile
An opportunity to see what flowers and veggies grow well in our local area. Admire and be amazed by the floral displays – there’s quite a wow factor! Be impressed by the children’s classes – our next generation of gardeners and horticulturists do us proud.
Garden sundries sales table (replace those holey gardening gloves)
And a raffle (of course)
Plus the chance to chat about gardens, gardening in between mouthfuls of delicious cake
Biggin Hill & District Horticultural Society is affiliated to:
The Royal Horticultural Society
The National Dahlia Society
The Daffodil Society
The National Vegetable Society
The Kent Federation of Horticultural Societies

Gardeners Evening Meeting June
2026-06-17 20:00 - 21:30 | Kent
Gardeners Evening Meeting June with Kevin Tooher exlaing the Rights and Wrongs of pruning to us.
These Gardeners Evenings are monthly garden society meetings with Biggin Hill Horticultural Society your local friendly gardening club
All talks are free to members.
You are welcome to attend these gardeners evenings as a non-member (small charge applies) We love growing gardens and friendships, so do come along and find out for yourself.
As your local friendly gardening club, Biggin Hill Horticultural Society offers more to members than ‘just’ talks. There are always gardening sundries such as plant labels, plant feed, and even second-hand gardening books, for sale at our gardeners evenings. And you can ask members for tips as there’s generally someone who knows the answer to your question.

Gardeners Evening Meeting May
2026-05-20 20:00 - 21:30 | St Mark’s Church Hall, Church Road, Biggin Hill, Kent, TN16 3LB, United Kingdom
In the Gardeners Evening Meeting May we creep about in the dark to discover Nocturnal Creatues visiting our Parks and Gardens with Dr Iain Boulton
These Gardeners Evenings are monthly garden society meetings with Biggin Hill Horticultural Society your local friendly gardening club
All talks are free to members.
You are welcome to attend these gardeners evenings as a non-member (small charge applies) We love growing gardens and friendships, so do come along and find out for yourself.
As your local friendly gardening club, Biggin Hill Horticultural Society offers more to members than ‘just’ talks. There are always gardening sundries such as plant labels, plant feed, and even second-hand gardening books, for sale at our gardeners evenings. And you can ask members for tips as there’s generally someone who knows the answer to your question.

Plant Sale 2026
2026-05-16 10:00 - 12:00 | Kent
Plant Sale 2026 – our popular annual event provides an opportunity to snap up some bargains, buy your bedding plants, herbaceous perennnials and more!
There will also be Carniverous Plants for sale – eco friendly fly catching in your greenhouse perhaps?
Plus Biggin Hill Horticultural Society’s Committee will be there to help with your gardening queries.
And the trade table with twine, garden gloves and other sundries that you keep losing in the compost bin
Members’ entry at 10am, general public entry at 10.30am
The Plant Sale closes at 12 noon

Gardeners Evening Meeting April
2026-04-15 20:00 - 22:00 | St Mark’s Church Hall, Church Road, Biggin Hill, Kent, TN16 3LB, United Kingdom
Gardeners Evening Meeting April has our local expert grower Bryan Everest sharing his years of practical experience of growing and showing Dahlias. And he has a great sense of humour too so it will be a fun as well as educational evening!
These Gardeners Evenings are monthly garden society meetings with Biggin Hill Horticultural Society your local friendly gardening club
All talks are free to members.
You are welcome to attend these gardeners evenings as a non-member (small charge applies) We love growing gardens and friendships, so do come along and find out for yourself.
As your local friendly gardening club, Biggin Hill Horticultural Society offers more to members than ‘just’ talks. There are always gardening sundries such as plant labels, plant feed, and even second-hand gardening books, for sale at our gardeners evenings. And you can ask members for tips as there’s generally someone who knows the answer to your question.

Spring Show 2026
2026-03-28 15:00 - 17:00 | St Mark’s Church Hall, Church Road, Biggin Hill, Kent, TN16 3LB, United Kingdom
The Spring Show 2026 is the first big event of Biggin Hill Horticultural Society’s calendar. Your local Gardening Club is a friendly and supportive place to begin the adventure of showing off those daffodils you ‘ve looked after since the autumn.
Please note that this year the date is earlier than usual as Easter is early
All entries are to be staged between 8:30am and 11:45am on the morning of the Show. Judging starts at noon. They are not to be removed until after the Prize Presentation in the afternoon.
For tips on How to exhibit at shows please check out the Show section on the website, including Show Rules
NB afternoon viewing is public and free.
Refreshments – tea, coffee, homemade cake, all served with a smile
An opportunity to see what flowers and veggies grow well in our local area. Admire and be amazed by the floral displays – there’s quite a wow factor! Be impressed by the children’s classes – our next generation of gardeners and horticulturists do us proud.
Garden sundries sales table (replace those holey gardening gloves)
And a raffle (of course)
Plus the chance to chat about gardens, gardening in between mouthfuls of delicious cake
Biggin Hill & District Horticultural Society is affiliated to:
The Royal Horticultural Society
The National Dahlia Society
The Daffodil Society
The National Vegetable Society
The Kent Federation of Horticultural Societies

Gardeners Evening Meeting March
2026-03-18 20:00 - 22:00 | St Mark’s Church Hall, Church Road, Biggin Hill, Kent, TN16 3LB, United Kingdom
Gardeners Evening Meeting March is all about The Modern Kitchen Garden. Barry Newman is an expert veggie grower with years of practical experience as a well-known grower, exhibitor, lecturer, judge and keen allotmenteer.
He is a member of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Fruit, Vegetable and Herb Expert Group and a former Chairman of the National Vegetable Society.
These Gardeners Evenings are monthly garden society meetings with Biggin Hill Horticultural Society your local friendly gardening club
All talks are free to members.
You are welcome to attend these gardeners evenings as a non-member (small charge applies) We love growing gardens and friendships, so do come along and find out for yourself.
As your local friendly gardening club, Biggin Hill Horticultural Society offers more to members than ‘just’ talks. There are always gardening sundries such as plant labels, plant feed, and even second-hand gardening books, for sale at our gardeners evenings. And you can ask members for tips as there’s generally someone who knows the answer to your question.

Seed Swop 2026 Biggin Hill
2026-02-21 10:30 - 12:30 | St Mark’s Church Hall, Church Road, Biggin Hill, Kent, TN16 3LB, United Kingdom
Seed Swop 2026 also includes seedlings, summer flowering bulbs, onion sets, seedlings .
Bring along what you have to swop for something you’d like – and if you don’t have enough for swopping, you can still go home with seeds
Full details on how it works and what to bring, please check the Seed Swap page!
Plus there will be help on hand and short demonstrations from your friendly Biggin Hill Horticultural Society committee for gettting those seeds to germinate and grow!

Social & AGM 2026
2025-11-18 20:00 - 21:30 | St Mark’s Church Hall, Church Road, Biggin Hill, Kent, TN16 3LB, United Kingdom
Biggin Hill Horticultural Society’s AGM and yearly Social event with cookery demo and tasting from one of our favourite judges and cookery guru, Gina Sheehan.
The Gardening Club Social & AGM gives members an opportunity to have their say, give suggestions and offers of help. And of course to say thank you to the committee, show judges, speakers and many helpers who have made it a good year for gardeners in Biggin Hill. We whizz through the essentials and then enjoy good company, drinks & nibbles and a raffle. The Cookery demo with opportunities to taste the results and take recipes to try at home is a popular part of the evening.
The Trade Table will be there as usual at our meetings, with plants, spring flowering bulbs, gardening books and sundries for you to purchase
This annual event is free for Members.
Prospective members and non-members are more than welcome to join us for £3.
As your local friendly gardening club, Biggin Hill Horticultural Society offers more to members than ‘just’ talks. There are always gardening sundries such as plant labels, plant feed, and even second-hand gardening books, for sale at our gardeners evenings. And you can ask members for tips as there’s generally someone who knows the answer to your question.
And you can always contact us by email
