Tuesday 12th September 2023
✿ A guided tour of the gardens lasting 90 minutes
✿ Prosecco and canapés served on your return from the garden tour
✿ A delicious, seasonal three-course dinner served with Highgrove organic wines
✿ Tea/coffee
✿ An entertaining talk and Q&A with Arit Anderson
✿ A goody bag for all guests on departure
After being greeted by the Gardeners' World Magazine team on your arrival at Highgrove, you’ll take a 90-minute guided tour to discover the beautiful and inspiring gardens. You’ll be guided through the evolution of these private gardens, with fascinating stories about their development, including insights into family life on the estate. You’ll find out how HRH The Prince of Wales has crafted each amazing space from scratch, so they now form one of the most inspirational gardens in the UK.
Arit Anderson is a garden designer, writer and presenter on BBC Two’s Gardeners’ World.
Arit spent 25 years working in the dynamic industries of retail fashion and creative events. She managed teams that delivered collections and events across the globe. She balanced this fast-paced career with interests in well-being, working as a therapist and teaching holistic therapies, which led her to travel extensively to the USA.
It was the joy of having her own garden that enabled Arit to diversify her creative experiences. She found that the visual nature of fashion and the healing properties of her therapies could beautifully meld in the garden. Playing with a new palette of colour and materials in her garden, drove her to explore the unique relationships between her love of plants, people and place. After just one season, Arit knew she wanted horticulture to become her work as well as her pleasure.
She studied gardening at Capel Manor College and whilst there had success at RHS Chelsea 2013 winning the Fresh Talent category for a student design collaboration with two other students. After attaining a diploma in garden design, she won a Gold Medal for her own design at RHS Hampton Court in 2016 in the conceptual category.
In her designs for both private and commercial clients her ethos includes simplicity and environmental sensitivity – affecting her choice of products and plants at source, with regard to their future setting. Working as presenter for Gardeners World, and writing for national publications has enabled Arit to publicise issues about the future of gardening in an ever-changing climate, and promote solutions to the wider public.
Allow time to browse in our newly built Estate Shop during your visit, where you'll find an extensive collection of artisan products and beautiful home and garden ware.
Inspired by the gardens and The King's interests, our ranges include unique and unusual items that showcase traditional and artisan crafts from around the UK, including pieces that have been designed exclusively for Highgrove.
After your garden tour, you will return to a Prosecco and canapés reception, followed by a delicious three-course dinner served in the glorious setting of the Orchard Room, and post dinner talk from Arit Anderson. Please note: seating will be on mixed tables.
Menu coming soon
The sale of Highgrove Products, Garden Tours and Events support and enable the life and work of The Prince’s Foundation.
