We have visited the RHS gardens at Harlow Carr near Harrogate several times now and it must be one of our favourite gardens of all times. It is a garden that never stands still but is always having new borders or gardens created and established areas redeveloped. We visited once again last year in October.
As usual, after staying overnight in a hotel in Harrogate, we arrived as it opened and started off with breakfast. We enjoyed our breakfast in a newly opened restaurant in the Harrogate Arms Cafe. We were given a map as we arrived and we used it to decide on a routeway around when we finished eating.
We then made our way towards the Alpine House passing through the Sub Tropical Garden on route where we enjoyed many plants too delicate for us to grow in our garden in chilly Shropshire. It was a garden with patches of shade and sunny areas in between.
It is always exciting to find plants we do not know, such as the two trees below, on the left a Cornus kousa ‘Wolf Eyes’ and the right a variety of a richly coloured Liquidamber we had never seen before.
My favourite part of Harlow Carr are the Main Borders which are always so colourful and designed in the prairie garden style. The gardeners here are always finding improvements to make to these borders.
As we are soon to revamp our prairie border at home we looked for plants that may work for us and came away with our heads full of ideas.
I shall finish off now with a gallery of photos from the rest of the gardens.
This was our third RHS garden that we have visited this year and this garden at Harlow Carr is still our firm favourite.
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