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Wildflower meadow featuring purple and yellow flowers

Wildflower meadow (credit: James Adler)

RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026

Join Norfolk Wildlife Trust to celebrate 100 years of protecting wildlife at the inaugural RHS Sandringham Flower Show from 22 - 26 July 2026.

Together with designer Bea Tann, we have created a garden that we hope will inspire visitors to 'Do one thing for wildlife' in their own green spaces.

Featuring a hedgehog highway, recycled planters and native flowers a-plenty, the garden will showcase easy ways to welcome wildlife into a relaxing and low maintenance space. Be inspired to let a corner of your garden grow wild, learn how to use reclaimed materials to create unique interest, and discover a range of plants that both look beautiful and benefit our wonderful wildlife.

RHS Show Exhibitor 2026
An illustration of a bittern with a blue silhouetted background portraying a bird of pray, a rabbit and trees

Do one thing for wildlife

Help us celebrate our 100th birthday and make a pledge to do one new thing for wildlife. 

You could provide water for wildlife in your garden, plant for pollinators, or simply make a donation to help protect Norfolk's nature. For every pledge you make, we'll plant one square meter of wildflower meadow on a Norfolk Wildlife Trust nature reserve - so wildlife benefits twice!

Make your pledge

Our wildlife stone artists

Look carefully around our garden and you'll soon spot multiple species that have made it their home! Our brilliant wildlife stones have been painted by a variety of local artists and Norfolk Wildlife Trust team members. How many species can you spot?

Alice Lee

Artist Alice Lee stands by a mural of pigeons

Alice Lee

Alice Lee is an artist and facilitator based in Norwich, whose creative projects fall under the umbrella name of Parallel Point. Her current practice is predominantly drawings and automata of birds (and sometimes bugs). Alongside her work with Norfolk Wildlife Trust, she has collaborated on community projects, such as Norwich Science Festival on your doorstep, and with charities, including Little Lifts, which provides support for people with primary and secondary breast cancer. 

@parallelpoint
www.parallelpoint.net.

David Prince - Common blue butterfly

Artist David Prince smiles at the camera

David Prince

David is a self-taught artist based in the Yare Valley in South Norfolk. He is from East Yorkshire and moved to Norfolk in 2007. David dabbled with sketches and some acrylics but didn’t take it very seriously (life got in the way!) before approaching art more seriously during the last five years. David's preferred medium is soft pastel and coloured pencil, but he also uses acrylic paint.

In his spare time he volunteers for Butterfly Conservation leading walks and is the County Butterfly Recorder for Norfolk.
 

Jacqui Hurst - Common frog

Artist Jacqui Hurst smiles at the camera

Jacqui Hurst

Jacqui has pursued different genres of art throughout her life including botanical watercolours and pastels, alongside being a professional basket maker and gardener. This lead to her working in lino printing several years ago, an art form she wanted to explore for many years. 

Jacqui's inspiration comes from the desire to create narrative using simplified forms, whilst incorporating Norfolk’s natural environment with birds and animals and reflecting her love of the countryside and the Norfolk coast. 

www.marshlandarts.co.uk

John Hurst - Great spotted woodpecker

Artist John Hurst smiles at the camera as he paints at his desk

John Hurst

John Hurst was born in Epworth, Lincolnshire in 1951 and spending many hours in remote fenland areas brought him close to a natural world that became his passion as a watercolourist.

John’s distinctive, figurative style, using dry brush and tonal wash techniques allow him to create distance and seasonal atmosphere. He particularly enjoys exhibiting at NWT Cley and Salthouse Marshes visitors centre and his patrons include the most well-known figures in sport, theatre, royal families, conservation and business. John always tries to support charities via his patrons, including blood disorders, cancer, poverty and wellbeing that have featured throughout his career.

www.marshlandarts.co.uk

Justine Perowne - Song thrush

Justine works for Natural England and has a passion for wildlife and painting birds.

@justine_perowne

Klara Patrick - Newt

Originally from North Norfolk, Klara is a business student at Sussex University and loves to paint as a hobby.

Mark Boyd - Swallow and house martins

After an ecological PhD, Mark pursued a career in nature conservation communications and education, treading the line between science, arts and the humanities within wildlife charities. Birds are his main wildlife interest, but he also traps moths, snorkels over Norfolk’s chalk reef and remains enthusiastic about almost anything alive. If that weren’t enough, he also chairs Norwich Ukulele Society, helps run Sheringham’s Coast Lines spoken word nights, and teaches wildlife art with Art Safari. He is 66 and lives in Holt

Richard Whymark - Swallowtail butterfly

Artist Richard Whymark paints a canvas outdoors

Richard Whymark

Richard is a retired head teacher who works for Norfolk Wildlife Trust at our visitor centre at NWT Cley and Salthouse Marshes. He is a landscape painter who uses the marsh landscape as the starting point for his pieces. The North Norfolk coast and the marshes are a constant source of inspiration for Richard.

@norfolkskiesrw

Silvia Combe - Robin

Silvia's family have a 400-year long history in Norfolk. She is a Senior Catering Assistant at NWT Cley Marshes and NWT Holme Dunes.

Our plants

Pond area

In the pond: 

Around the pond:

  • Brookweed (Samolus valerandi)
  • Common valerian (Valeriana officinalis)
  • Greater bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus pedunculatus)
  • Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)
  • Water mint (Mentha aquatica)
  • Ragged-robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi)

Wildflower meadow

Around the tree

Our lovely tree is an alder (Alnus glutinosa), supplied by Barcham. It is surrounded by:

  • Betony (Stachys officinalis)
  • Common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica)
  • Hedge bedstraw (Gallium mollugo)
  • Lesser knapweed (Centaurea nigra)
  • Meadow-rue (Thalictrum flavum)
  • Oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
  • Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris)
  • Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)
  • Vervain (Verbena officinalis)

Planters

  • Betony (Stachys officinalis)
  • Field scabious (Knautia arvensis)
  • Hedge bedstraw (Gallium mollugo)
  • Lesser knapweed (Centaurea nigra)
  • Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris)
  • Vervain (Verbena officinalis)
     
A cobalt blue book with white and copper wildlife illustrations is held against a background of green plants

This Wild Dream

This Wild Dream by Nick Acheson celebrates 100 years of Norfolk Wildlife Trust. This beautiful book, with an introduction by NWT President Patrick Barkham, presents a selection from a decade of columns written for Norfolk Magazine. Nick's writing reveals the glorious biodiversity in Norfolk, reflecting on both the changes and achievements over the last ten years and inspiring hope in those who dream of a better future for our world. 

This Wild Dream can be purchased from our visitor centres or online via the Book Hive. All profits go directly to Norfolk Wildlife Trust.

Buy 'This Wild Dream'

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