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Here at RHS Garden Harlow Carr, we're taking a walk on the wild side this half term, giving you the chance to become a wildlife explorer and discover how to help the birds, bugs and bats in your garden at home with a range of activities and workshops! Ladybirds are a gardener’s best friend, eating...
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What a change in the weather since I last wrote the blog on the 6 th Feb, then we were ankle deep in snow, whilst this week it’s been a good 8 degrees warmer and we’ve had some lovely heart warming sunshine. Tom and I have been working hard on our Island beds this week; lifting and dividing plants from...
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Happy New Year…..welcome back! I’ve been busy this morning checking the garden over as I am on weekend duty at the end of this particularly frosty and cold week. I get to walk around the whole site, which is lovely and not something I generally get to do on a regular basis, and to see the bare bones...
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What with Santa and the Reindeer turning up last Saturday, and all the festive snow and ice this week, the Harlow Carr garden has taken on a magical glow of Christmas! We have taken advantage of our heated glasshouse to catch up with our propagation work, picking over and removing all rotting leaves...
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Hi I’m Kath and I am Harlow Carr Garden’s latest recruit. I work on the ornamental team ‘Gardens West’ and my permanent contract has just begun on the 1 st October. This is very exciting for me as I have worked for many years in the chocolate industry. Eventually, after doing 4 years at evening classes...
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Its been an exciting few weeks here at Harlow Carr, the development of the new alpine house is well under way! Andy and his team of contractors from Houseman and Falshaw have been battling through some really wet weather which has made the heavy clay soil really sticky to work with. First they carefully...
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