Garden and lifestyle trade fair has it all: Garden and lifestyle trade fair has it all: Garden and lifestyle trade fair has it all: from exotic plants to garden furniture

Annual international gardening trade fair Garden and lifestyle 2024 will take place this weekend on 27-28 April at the Ķīpsala International Expo Centre. Two-day trade fair brings together almost 100 companies ready to showcase everything you might need for gardening or quality recreation.

Add new plants to your garden
Two-day trade fair at Ķīpsala is a great opportunity to see, pick and buy all kinds of plants and seed. If you need advice on best perennial flowers and bushes for your garden, nursery grower Eva Meržejevska will help you, whereas Līga market garden will offer plenty of various annual plants and flowers.

Garden and lifestyle would not be complete without the crown jewel of any garden, the beautiful roses. There will be a wide variety of locally grown roses from ‘Dailas rozes’, ‘Ilzes rozes’ and ‘A.R. Rozes’. Meanwhile, ‘Jaunās Čūreikas’ farm will offer exciting aromatic herbs, from everyone’s favourite basil to trendy olive grass. There will also be everyone’s-favourite balcony tomatoes and chilli peppers, as well as herb boxes that will look nice on any balcony or kitchen window.

If you are looking for fruit trees or berry plants, you should visit the stand of ‘Liepas’ nursery, which grows wide variety of apple trees, pear trees, cherry trees, peach trees, apricot trees, black currants, gooseberry, red currants and many other fruit trees. Meanwhile, those who are trying to maximise and diversify their organically grown tomato yield, should seek the advice of Artūrs Silde Horticultural Enthusiasts’ Club TOMATO at their stand.

But, if you are keen on exotic plants less characteristic for the Latvian climate, you should go to the likes of ‘Walnut Latvia’ who will bring various species of walnut.

Lithuanian horticulturers will be strongly represented at this year’s Garden and lifestyle trade fair. Different rhododendron, fruit tree and ornamental tree species from ‘Tado ūkis’, and different kinds of fragrant lavender-based home, beauty and health products from lavender farm ’Levandų ūkis’.

Give your garden more elegant, trendier and neat look
Comfortable, modern and durable furniture is a must-have for anyone who wants their garden to look nice. Garden and lifestyle will have solid wood, basalt and other durable garden furniture from well-known Latvian brands like ‘UZKURI’, ‘Etna Design’, ‘KATE’ and one of the newcomers, ‘Āra mēbeles+’.

Tub is a great way to unwind after a long workday, or cool down on a hot summer day. Various kinds of extras and accessories, as well as tub designs from ‘Pirts amatnieks’ and Queen Tub will be available at the Garden and lifestyle. But, if you want more than a tub, and are looking for a sauna, especially the one that is easy to install and move around, you should definitely go to 4SPA and Reborn Buildings who have a range of modern, comfortable and, more importantly, highly portable and quick-assembly saunas.

Garden and lifestyle will also showcase greenhouses that are becoming somewhat trendy right now. Lähe House will display contemporary thermo-wood greenhouses where you can plant tomatoes and herbs, and even host parties.

Modern tools for better results
You will need more than your bare hands to implement even the brightest and most well-thought-out ideas. That is why Garden and lifestyle 2024 will have plenty of garden tools, devices and other equipment to choose from. Lawn mowers, trimmers, hedge trimmers, saws, hedge shears, pressure washers, washers, pumps, leaf blowers and many other indispensable garden and yard tools from Kärcher, Makita, Ryobi and Trolla.

Expert advice
Garden and lifestyle 2024 exterior and garden design section will offer a unique opportunity to receive creative and more strategic advice from various experts on how to develop your garden. Do you want to arrange plants in a structure that will strike with its colours all year round? Have you thought about the natural cycle of plants and how they will grow and mature? What kind of light will you have and what materials are you going to use on your garden? During Garden and lifestyle 2024, landscape architect Loreta Erele, spatial, exterior and small-scale architecture designer Kristiana Kazarjana and arborist Emīls Vilmenietis will guide you through these and many other confusing questions, giving you a clearer vision of your perfect garden. Expert panel will also include furniture manufacturer ‘Attēls R’ and design studio Decolight.