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  • Shiver Me Timbers..... Colourful Oceans Ahead!

    Harlow Carr Gardeners on 29 Aug 2008 at 12:21 PM

    What a fabulous day we all had on our annual Pirate Day which traditionally marks the close of our family fortnight event here at Harlow Carr.

     

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  • Have you spotted us out & about?

    Harlow Carr Events on 21 Aug 2008 at 04:13 PM

    Harlow Carr has been out and about in the last couple of weeks meeting and chatting to local gardeners and families - did you spot us?

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  • ***Garden open as normal***

    Harlow Carr Events on 20 Aug 2008 at 09:28 AM

    The garden is open again today as normal after the very heavy rain yesterday.

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  • **** Stop Press **** Garden closed today

    Harlow Carr Events on 19 Aug 2008 at 03:31 PM

    A sudden heavy tropical like downpour has flooded the main paths and the garden is now closed for the rest of the day.  Check here for an update on conditions for Wednesday 20 August.

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  • Umbrellas and umbellifers.....

    Harlow Carr Gardeners on 19 Aug 2008 at 11:07 AM

    The umbrellas were up and down like yo yo’s last week at Harlow Carr. It appears the autumnal chill has descended over the country and the only glimmer of warmth is our success at the Beijing Olympics! We have done so well with our swimming medals, and you could have done a fairly credible backstroke in the stream in the gardens with all the deluges of rain too!.  Still, the resilient plants are still flowering their hearts out, and despite everything providing a magnificent show to our intrepid, mainly sodden visitors.

     

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  • Plant of The Week

    Harlow Carr Plant Centre on 13 Aug 2008 at 12:54 PM

     Buddleja

     

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  • YO HO MI HEARTIES!

    Harlow Carr Gardeners on 07 Aug 2008 at 04:04 PM

     

    There be pirates at Harlow Carr

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  • The rain in Spain falls Mainly on the plane, but not here at Harlow Carr

    Harlow Carr Gardeners on 01 Aug 2008 at 02:27 PM

     

     Yesterday just in time for lunch the heavens opened and we received torrential rain for several hours. This is in some way a good thing, the ground was beginning to get a little dry and hard in places even though we don’t seem to of had many sunny days yet, just humid muggy heat. Read More...

  • Balsam Bashing

    Harlow Carr Gardeners on 24 Jul 2008 at 03:42 PM

    Monday saw the entire garden team and many of our volunteer gardeners routing through the undergrowth amongst primed stinging nettles and lacerating brambles in the pursuit of Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera). It has many common names including Indian balsam, jumping jack, policeman's helmet, Indian touch-me-not, ornamental jewel-weed, pink peril and poor man's orchid. This invasive relative of the familiar tender busy Lizzie has become increasingly established along the boundaries of Harlow Carr particularly along the stream which transects the garden. It is a fast growing thug growing to two meters with broad leaves and a high tolerance of shade. It can quickly shade out our native flora and is common throughout Britain particularly along stream and river banks. It is swiftly dealt with by the first frosts but the damage is already done and the prolifically produced seed overwinters readily. The banks of watercourses regularly flood in the winter months but where the soil stabilising native plants have been smothered out the banks are susceptible to erosion. The flowers also produce large amounts of nectar and are popular with many native insects. This may seem like an arguably beneficial attribute but these pollinators are being drawn away from our sometimes less generous native wildflowers which are then unable to set seed.

     

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  • Pink Wigs and perilous seas..

    Harlow Carr Gardeners on 18 Jul 2008 at 09:28 AM

    A pink wig and false eyelashes….not something I usually don on a Tuesday evening, but when duty calls! The main borders were the magnificent venue for our Opera Evening, ‘Don Pasquale’ a 70’s musical romp, where Harlow Carr staff stewarding the event dressed up to get the party started – hence the costume!

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