Gardens today face heatwaves, drought, and floods – but don’t have to struggle. Garden designer Charlotte shares simple, practical ways to build and maintain beautiful, low-maintenance gardens that work with nature and thrive in extremes.

 

Jane Russ wrote The Butterfly Book with the photographer Andrew Fusek Peters in 2025 and she will give a talk, fully illustrated by his outstanding images of the natural wonder that is the butterfly. If you didn’t know butterflies had hairy eyeballs you will by the end of this lively and fascinating talk.