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Fairhaven Garden Spring Plant Fair and Primula Tour 

Fairhaven Woodland and Water Garden at South Walsham is staging its third annual Spring Plant Fair on Saturday, May 18 from 10am to 2pm.
Then on Sunday, May 19 at 11am, Head Gardner, Ian Guest will lead a tour of the garden’s candelabra primula collection.
The Spring Plant Fair on Saturday, May 18, features 12 specialist independent nurseries from Norfolk and Suffolk, offering visitors the opportunity to buy new and unusual varieties of plants and get expert advice and help with plant identification. There is also the chance to buy Fairhaven propagated candelabra primulas, meet Eden Tree Care tree surgeons and Jason Kidman, promoting sustainable forest gardens. New for this year is a food marquee selling jams, honey, cakes, beer and wine. Free entry to the Plant Fair and free parking (garden entry not included).
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Head Gardener Ian Guest will lead visitors through the woodland garden for the Candelabra Primula Walk on Sunday, May 19 at 11am, a Broads Outdoors Festival event. The 50,000 naturalised candelabra primulas, the largest collection in the UK, will be approaching their best. The candelabras will be on show until early June displaying all the colours of the rainbow, and can be viewed beside the footpaths and water filled dykes that criss-cross the garden. Normal garden entry charges apply for the guided walk, adult £6, concessions £5.50, child £3.50 (under five free).
Fairhaven Woodland and Water Garden is at South Walsham, nine miles east of Norwich, signposted off A47 at B1140 junction, www.fairhavengarden.co.uk, t. 01603 270449.
The garden is open daily all year from 10am to 5pm (closed Christmas Day); also open to 9pm on Wednesday, May to end of August.  Garden entry is adult £6, concessions £5.50 and child £3.50 (under 5 free), free entry to tearoom, gift shop and plant sales. There is wheelchair access throughout the garden, including a Sensory Garden. Visitors requiring special facilities are advised to telephone in advance, mobility scooters available. Dogs are welcome on leads; small charge to cover poop scoop.
Nurseries at the Spring Plant Fair
Old College Nurseries (shrubs)
Tower Plants (pelargoniums/osteospermums)
Creake Plant Centre (roses, clematis, herbaceous, shrubs)
Park Road Nurseries (perennials and wooden bird boxes)
Pickering’s Plants
Willimotts Plants
Hoecroft Plants (grasses and coloured foliage plants)
Garden Force Centre
Choice Landscapes (alpines and dwarf bulbs)
Helen Worvill (winter interest)
Predator Plants (carnivorous plants)
Dover Farm Nurseries (perennials)