TV presenter and horticulturist Toby Buckland will be bringing his garden festival to Bowood House and Gardens near Calne this June.

The festival on June 5 and 6, organised by the Country Gardener Magazines, is the first event of its type at Bowood House celebrating horticulture throughout the Cotswolds.

Mr Buckland held his first festival last year, at Powderham Castle in Devon, before exhibitor Marcel Floyd of Floyd's Climber's planted the idea of bringing the concept to Wiltshire.

A qualified horticulturalist, author and broadcaster best known for his time on the BBC’s Gardener’s World, Mr Buckland will be speaking at the festival in addition to running Question and Answer panel sessions.

He said: “I am delighted that so many of my gardening friends will join us at Bowood. The festival is a combination of all the things I love – plants, gardening, good company, food, drink and music – in the most beautiful English countryside.

“For me it’s the perfect way to celebrate gardening and the arrival of summer.

“Many of the plants brought to our festivals have been discovered and raised by the growers themselves. They know their plants inside out so visitors receive the best advice about where and how to get brilliant results in their own gardens.”

In addition, the celebration of summer gardening will see a number of talks and ideas from famous guests.

On Friday, anthropologist and television presenter James Wong will be signing copies of his new book, Grow For Flavour, while Roy Lancaster CBE, plant hunter author and lecturer, will be guest speaking.

Floral designer Jonathon Moseley will be delivering demonstrations, classes and workshops on both days while Royal Horticultural Society judge Jim Buttress will be joining Toby Buckland on the Q&A panels.

Anne Swithinbank from BBC Radio 4’s Gardener’s Question Time will at the festival on the Saturday answering garden questions and telling audiences about the story of her own garden.

Festival co-director, Alan Lewis of Country Gardener Magazine, said: “We could not have found a more quintessentially romantic English landscape in which to hold this celebratory event.

“Bowood, rightly famous for its rare trees and rhododendrons, rolling landscape and beauty of its lake, makes a perfect garden festival location.”

Exhibitions will also be available for visitors to view by Floyd’s Climbers and Clematis, Whetman’s Pinks, the Wiltshire Liquer Company, Joan Pressley Hats and the Kington Langley Croquet Group.