A plant-lover's paradise: exploring RHS Garden Harlow Carr (Ep 137)

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

From iconic blue Himalayan poppies and drifts of streamside primulas to subtropical borders and precious alpines, Harlow Carr is a paradise for plant lovers. In this episode we meet the gardeners who share their favourite plants and parts of the most northerly RHS Garden. For more info and useful links see www.rhs.org.uk/podcast

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:06.4	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance to delight your senses.
0:13.2	Inspire your gardening adventures and entertain your own little stars.
0:17.4	Race you, let's go.
0:19.5	Catch Springs finest scenes while you can at an RHS garden near you, let's go. Catch Springs, finest scenes while you can,
0:22.1	at an RHS garden near you.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts,
0:26.0	plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:32.0	Hello and welcome back to the Royal Horticultural Society's gardening podcast.
0:37.0	Today we're heading north to the beautiful
0:39.0	surroundings of RHS Garden Harlow Carr. Nestled in the breathtaking Yorkshire countryside,
0:44.7	this 58-acre garden is a huge attraction for visitors from all over the UK. Harlow Car boasts an
0:51.0	enormous variety of growing areas and landscapes, from woodland
0:54.3	glades to trickling becks, and of course the magnificent alpine house, home to over
0:59.5	2,000 species of exciting and unusual plants.
1:06.0	From the flowering bulbs and rhododendrons in spring to its much-loved winter walk. This garden delights visitors in
1:12.3	every season. The beneficiary of recent major investment from the RHS, in 2018, Harlow Carr is more
1:19.1	magnificent than ever. Our podcast team had a tour of the garden to see how it's all come together.
1:24.9	My name is Amy Beth Browning, and I'm one of the gardeners here at Harlow Car.
1:29.8	I'm on the woodland team and I primarily work on the streamside as well as the woodland edge
1:36.3	prairie of the garden. Right now we are standing on a lovely small bridge that is just located
1:42.5	right below the sand-sowed rock garden that is surrounded by some
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