Tuesday, 18 May 2010

Tulips at Harlow Carr

On Monday my friends Lynda, Lena, Val, Jenny and I had a trip to the RHS Harlow Carr Harogate. The past two weeks had been the Tulip Festival but when we spoke to one of the volunteer gardeners she thought they were at there best now, and we thought they were looking stunning. They have planted 250,000 bulbs.

This was the children's Victorian garden.

I loved the colour of this Tulip two tone.









All these colours together were very eye catching one of my favourite. The canes were in place ready for the sweet pea and a different structure from the usual tepee style.



This was the scented garden and although the hyacinths were past it there was still a lovely smell.


There were lots of pots with varieties of Tulips





This newly planted hedge of apple line the new vegetable garden and look stunning with its blossom.



This little plant was in the new Alpine House and much to everybody amusement was called Vicky

One side of the Alpine House.


This was just a small spot in the wild flower garden.


The fox gloves and pretty forget-me-nots growing in this conservatory along with the other flowers were a welcome sight

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3 comments:

  1. Vicki18 May 2010 at 13:20

    I wonder what they do with them all once they're finished flowering.

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  2. EB19 May 2010 at 11:24

    I wonder that too. I adore tulips but they don't come up well in this garden so they work out as expensive! I suppose I could lift them but I wouldn't... My favourites in the pictures are the ones under the sweet pea wires.

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  3. Dame Judi26 May 2010 at 10:08

    These are such beauiful photos.. a mini holiday treat for this morning.

    Seeing them made me think its time to broaden my horizons with new color combinations for next Spring.

    Thanks.

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