Join Isabelle Tompkins, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Samara Reserve, Dr Olly Fox, ornithologist and member of the West Oxfordshire Farmland Bird Project, and Lucy Cleland, Founding Editor of Country & Town House for a conversation on the interconnectedness of these habitats and the remarkable biodiversity found in such polar ecosystems. Here at Thyme this May, they share stories of hope and the resilience of nature.

Join Rachel de Thame, expert horticulturalist and Gardener's World presenter, and Clare Foster, Garden Editor of House & Garden, to learn how to create a garden that provides an abundant resource of plants rich in nectar and pollen all year round. 

Join Michael Zee, creator of the popular Symmetry Breakfast Instagram account for a fascinating conversation about Michael's second cookery book, Breakfast of China.

Join Sean Pritchard and Molly Tait-Hyland, for an inspiring  conversation about his new book: Outside In: A year of growing and displaying. 

Join Tiffany Daneff for an informative and deeply personal conversation with one of the world’s leading landscape gardeners, Jinny Blom.

An instant classic when it was published 20 years ago, Roast Figs, Sugar Snow remains the quintessential book on the magic of cold weather cooking.

Diana writes evocatively about both place and food, making it a book well worth reading, as well as cooking from. This revised and expanded edition includes eight new recipes and new forewords from Diana Henry and Nigel Slater.

This is the course for those who love gardening in pots. Whether you have a large-ish garden like Sarah's, or one where the whole garden is in containers. Including practical and design tips, learn plenty of new ideas for magnificent

I love being able to pick armfuls of flowers for a good nine months of the year and in this day course we will teach you how, giving you hard facts on how to succeed with growing the very best and most productive plants. We will also give you practical advice on seed sowing and propagation, soil conditioning, mulching, staking and all the most important things we have found to help us succeed with nine month round flower production.

Inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice for a beautiful garden all year round. This is the course for the general gardener, who - like Sarah – adores and thrives on year round colour, scent and floweriness just outside the door.

Join much loved Garden Designer Butter Wakefield, to celebrate the launch of Arthur Parkinson’s new book, ‘Planting a Paradise’.  Butter will talk to Arthur about what to grow through the seasons with an array of planting ideas and recommended varieties to inspire the experienced and novice gardener alike

Join Country Life at Thyme in the Cotswolds to discover the secret to creating a house that is sympathetic with its surroundings

A Year in the Garden-Seasonal recipes for everyday pleasure

House & Garden Editor, Hatta Byng will be in conversation with Blanche Vaughan–they will talk about House & Garden’s first recipe book, written and curated by Blanche Vaughan, Food Editor of House & Garden.

Join us for a conversation between award-winning journalist and Sunday Times best-selling author, Lorraine Candy and Kathryn Pinkham, founder of The Insomnia Clinic, one of the UK’s only specialist insomnia services.

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.

Join us for an inspiring morning with Justine Picardie, as she unveils the legacy of Coco Chanel, the once feared and revered by the rest of the fashion industry. Picardie brings Gabrielle Chanel out of hiding and uncovers the consequences of what Chanel covered up, unpicking the seams between truth and myth in a story that reveals the true heart of fashion.

Book signing will take place after the talk.

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.

This is my classic course for those who are thinking about creating an intensive cutting patch, or who want to grow a few flowers for the house, built on everything I’ve learnt about growing cut flowers over the last 27 years at my home, Perch Hill.

Invaluable design tips and practical advice for magnificent pots, whether you have a large-ish garden like Sarah's at Perch Hill, with pots as a hugely important contributory thread to it's beauty, or if you garden mainly in containers like Arthur.

Inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice for a beautiful garden all year round. This is the course for the general gardener, who - like Sarah – adores and thrives on year round colour, scent and floweriness just outside the door.

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.

Join House & Garden’s garden editor Clare Foster and House & Garden’s Garden Designer of the Year, Jinny Blom at Thyme for a look back at the beauty of a winter’s garden.

Join Clare Foster, garden editor of House & Garden Magazine, as she hosts a Meadow talk with Rachel de Thame and PlantLife expert, Dr Trevor Dines.