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SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Maggi Young on April 06, 2009, 11:17:09 AM
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News from Harlow Carr about an event on Sunday 7th June , 2009.....
All about Alpines
Event at RHS Garden Harlow Carr, Harrogate
Sunday 7 June
10am-4pm
Come and see Harlow Carr’s fantastic new Alpine House and learn all about the different types of alpines. Alpine beginners and enthusiasts welcome.
• experts on site offering advice and information on how to get started
• displays by the Alpine Garden Society, National Auricula & Primula Society and Saxifrage Society
• Planting demonstrations
• Talks on ‘Growing blue poppies’, ‘Selecting alpine plants for different garden settings’ and ‘Auriculas’
Free with normal garden entry price. First come, first served basis.
Make a day of it and visit Bettys Café Tea Rooms and the RHS Shop & Plant Centre
Telephone 01423 556418 for further details.
RHS Garden Harlow Carr
Crag Lane, Harrogate HG3 1QB
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Sounds good Maggi ... thanks for the info'.
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It will be interesting to see what the new alpine house is like. The old alpine area was one of my favourite parts of the garden and recent visits have been disappointing as more and more of these 'domestic' scaled areas have been removed in favour of their large-scale 'improvements'.
I would recommend a visit to Betty's only for those who don't mind wasting at least half an hour of their visiting time in a queue and who would rather spend their money on expensive food (they even cut the crusts off the sandwiches so you will not even be full!) than plants. The cafe/restaurant is open to the public not just garden visitors and always very busy. Most regular garden visitors can be seen having their picnics in the car park.
The garden centre, shop and book shop are recommended, though :)
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You make a very persuasive argument for a picnic, Vivien, to this hungry soul, at least! ;)
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Come and see my garden on the same day - we are open for the National Gardens Scheme, and are half an hour away from Harlow. (our cakes are cheaper than Betty's too!).
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Anne, that's a brilliant idea..... why not post the link for your place from the Yellow Book site ?
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Thanks, Maggi - http://www.ngs.org.uk/gardens/gardenfinder/garden.aspx?id=18654
Also see photos and more info (including guest cake!) on our site at www.dryad-home.co.uk
I hope any forumists who come will make themselves known to me. Good weather would be nice 8)
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Hi Anne,
How come I have never discovered your tremendous site and your beautiful photographs, paintings and cards?
I seem to spend far too much time photographing Pulsatillas! Perhaps I should take up surfing ... the net?
Wonderful garden, I hope I can get there in June!
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The National Garden Scheme site seems to work rather oddly..... while the link shown if the one from the page about Anne's garden, when you click on it from here all you get is a search page....
So, to see the page, when you click on the NGS link, you need to enter the postcode YO26 7PU and 5 miles as a distnace ( required field!) to find the exact link to Anne's garden in Tockwith, York.
http://www.ngs.org.uk/gardens/gardenfinder/garden.aspx?id=18654
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Oh yes - that's weird. Thanks Maggi.
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I have been browsing....... look what else I discover.....
About Anne's garden open days.....
"first opening in 2009 is on April 19th (1-4pm), when we will have wood anemones, trilliums and other choice plants for sale. We will also be open on June 7th (1-5pm) and September 13th (1-5pm). We always try to have a good selection of unusual plants for sale, including some rare ferns. We also do excellent home made teas! As well as our usual favourites, April's guest cake will be Sticky Toffee and Pecan Cake. Come early for the best choice of plants and cakes. We would be delighted if you would join us on one or more occasions to help raise funds for this very worthwhile cause, (NGS) which supports several other charities including:
Macmillan Cancer Support: Marie Curie Cancer Care: Help the Hospices: Crossroads."
Sticky Toffee and Pecan Cake!! Ooooooh!! Even if the garden were not worth visiting..... look at the pix on Anne's website and you will see that it certainly is really super and WORTH visiting.... the cake would be the clincher!! ;D
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I wondered how long it would take you to spot that, Maggi ;D ;D
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A real pleasure to look around your garden Anne. Maybe one day in the real world.....?
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You will be very welcome - I'll make cake! :-*
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I spent a glorious afternoon in Anne's garden yesterday at her first open day of the year. Fantastic garden, weather and plants - even a skylark for background music. Well done Anne, I hope you are resting in the sunshine today. I will post some pictures (in a new topic?) when my son comes back with the camera!
Warning - may include pictures of CAKE (need a 'licking lips' smiley) :)
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Many images to follow from the Alpine Day held at Harlow Carr Gardens, Harrogate, North Yorkshire today (7th June 2009) - heavy rain was predicted for the afternoon, but miraculously the sun shone weakly through grey-white clouds and a cool breeze did not detract from a very enjoyable day ...
Congratulations to the West Yorkshire Group of the AGS for all their promotional lectures and advertising on the day.
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The gardens were a mass of alliums, iris and primulas and my first two postings feature these beautiful plantings ... alpine house and other areas of the gardens to follow in future postings.
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More alliums, iris and primulas from Harlow Carr.
HARLOW CARR GARDENS
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Over one hundred and fifty images to post, so no titles for the images I'm afraid ...
It was simply a matter of sprinting around the gardens capturing images before the predicted and threatening rain began to fall ...
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Don't worry, Cliff, the photographs say it all so very well that there is no need for labels.
Looking forward to the rest.
Paddy
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Thanks Paddy ... a few more this morning.
Giving a lecture to the East Lancashire Group at Ramsbottom this evening so more postings may have to wait until tomorrow ...
HARLOW CARR APINE DAY - WILDFLOWER MEADOWS, GUNNERA STREAM AND RHODODENDRON DELL
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HARLOW CARR ALPINE DAY - WILDFLOWER MEADOWS
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Great stuff Cliff ! :o
Many of us couldnt make it on the day... ;D ... so I'm sure a lot of us will be pleased to see all this through the lens of your camera ! 8)
Looking forward to much .... more !
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Many thanks, Luc - so glad you are enjoying them.
Almost arrived at the new alpine house ... strolling through the wildflower meadows first.
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Touring the new alpine house now ...
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More from Harlow Carr alpine day ...
Continuing in the new alpine house.
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Thanks Cliff. I was going to come up to the Alpine Day but other things got in the way, this way at least I've seen some of it and can double my efforts to make it to Harlow Carr soon.
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Thanks from me too Cliff, I enjoyed the series. Good to see the new Alpine House complete with good old Huddersfield stone. I must pay a visit when next I'm in the 'Homeland'.
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Thanks Martin and David, but you haven't escaped so lightly ... lots more images to follow I'm afraid ...
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More from Harlow Carr alpine day ... and the new alpine house ...
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Thanks for this look at Harlow Carr Cliff. Long time since I was there and I remember it chiefly because it was there that a pushy American, who couldn't wait to get to the front of the queue, shoved my brand new, expensive camera from my hands and smashed it. Spoilt my day, for some reason. Good to see a few NZers doing well in the alpine house.
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Many thanks, Lesley. Some more images from Harlow Carr ... inside and outside the new alpine house ...
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... And there's more ...
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Super visit to Harlow Carr, Cliff.
Many Happy Returns of the Day: kind of you to keep sharing with us when you could be off scoffing birthday cake.... or did Ollie get to it already?!! ;D ;) :-*
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Thanks Maggi ... you know that I would never eat anything that might affect my cholesterol levels?
Not long until Pudsey Show, my little piglets!!!
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Ah, Pudsey Piggery..... how I would love to be involved in that illustrious event......I keep myself in rigorous training, you know........ just in case.......... ::)
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There is ALWAYS a place kept at the table for you, Maggi ... usually between Diane and her sister Carol ... nothing like a bit of competition, eh?
(And please don't try the punchline; 'And that is nothing like a bit of competition') ... I've seen those girls eat!
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yeah..... I've seen those girls. :-X
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Wrong thread I know but many Happies Cliff.
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I MUST know what that wonderful blue is please, between the Incarvillea and the Epipactis? Pretty please?
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I MUST know what that wonderful blue is please, between the Incarvillea and the Epipactis? Pretty please?
Veronica spicata form?
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Mmmm, I suppose it could be, a veronica certainly but such an excruciating blue. Much better than my form of it.
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Excellent series about this Harlow Carr event Cliff, and super pictures as usual.
You showed in one of the first series a Syringa. Do you by accident know if this is a S chinensis?
I MUST know what that wonderful blue is please, between the Incarvillea and the Epipactis? Pretty please?
A variety of Veronica austriaca ?
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So sorry, Lesley ... even the 'pretty please' won't stir my memory or produce an image with the label on it. The colour is pretty accurate though ... perhaps our friend in charge of the new alpine house is reading this?
Apologies Luit, as the rain was imminent I decided to collect images instead of labels ... and then the rain fortuitously stayed away. Can anyone assist dear Luit please?
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There is ALWAYS a place kept at the table for you, Maggi ... usually between Diane and her sister Carol ... nothing like a bit of competition, eh?
(And please don't try the punchline; 'And that is nothing like a bit of competition') ... I've seen those girls eat!
The cheek of it, Mr Bookeroo - if it wasn't your birthday ...... :o :o :o
And there's me, been living on lettuce leaves since the last Pudsey pig competition. 8)
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Excellent series about this Harlow Carr event Cliff, and super pictures as usual.
You showed in one of the first series a Syringa. Do you by accident know if this is a S chinensis?
I MUST know what that wonderful blue is please, between the Incarvillea and the Epipactis? Pretty please?
A variety of Veronica austriaca ?
Luit, you're a genius! What about Veronica austriaca 'Crater Lake Blue' ...... Beth Chatto sells this, it's a cracker. Just had a look at the RHS Plantfinder.... quite a few places stock it.
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There is ALWAYS a place kept at the table for you, Maggi ... usually between Diane and her sister Carol ... nothing like a bit of competition, eh?
(And please don't try the punchline; 'And that is nothing like a bit of competition') ... I've seen those girls eat!
The cheek of it, Mr Bookeroo - if it wasn't your birthday ...... :o :o :o
And there's me, been living on lettuce leaves since the last Pudsey pig competition. 8)
Bless you , Diane, for berating Cliff and letting me off with my cheeky comment..... I was only doing it to get a laugh for the Bookeroo's birthday; honest! :-[
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Bless you , Diane, for berating Cliff and letting me off with my cheeky comment.....
yeah..... I've seen those girls. :-X
That's OK, Maggi, I've also seen you ... :-*
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Ha! Ha! So you have!! ;D
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Luit, you're a genius! What about Veronica austriaca 'Crater Lake Blue' ...... Beth Chatto sells this, it's a cracker. Just had a look at the RHS Plantfinder.... quite a few places stock it.
Maggi, one of those varieties like Knallblau, Royal Blue, Kapitän or Crater Lake Blue. Difficult to say on a picture.
They all look rather the same, one a bit higher or earlier than the other.
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Luit, you're a genius! What about Veronica austriaca 'Crater Lake Blue' ...... Beth Chatto sells this, it's a cracker. Just had a look at the RHS Plantfinder.... quite a few places stock it.
Maggi, one of those varieties like Knallblau, Royal Blue, Kapitän or Crater Lake Blue. Difficult to say on a picture.
They all look rather the same, one a bit higher or earlier than the other.
Yes, and this one is grown under glass so may be not the same as one grown outside. These gentian-blue varieties are rather pretty.
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Luit, you're a genius! What about Veronica austriaca 'Crater Lake Blue' ...... Beth Chatto sells this, it's a cracker. Just had a look at the RHS Plantfinder.... quite a few places stock it.
Not in New Zealand, alas. :'(
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I MUST know what that wonderful blue is please, between the Incarvillea and the Epipactis? Pretty please?
A variety of Veronica austriaca ?
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Luit, you're a genius! What about Veronica austriaca 'Crater Lake Blue' ...... Beth Chatto sells this, it's a cracker. Just had a look at the RHS Plantfinder.... quite a few places stock it.
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Well done Luit and Maggi ... 'Crater Lake Blue' jumps out at me now that you have stirred the memory cell(s).
A few more images seeing as I can't sleep .... back out into the gardens now ...
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More from the beautiful Harlow Carr Gardens ...
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What a luxury to be able to sit back comfortably and enjoy the beauties of these gardens through these wonderful images... my thoughts go to the poor photographer who was jumping around trying to stay in front of the rain showers... 8)
Thank you VERY much Cliff !! ;)
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Ah shucks, Luc ... many thanks ... but JUMPING AROUND? My zimmer frame doesn't allow MUCH jumping! :D
Next batch ... not many more to come ... lovely meadows feature in this posting.
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Excellent series about this Harlow Carr event Cliff, and super pictures as usual.
You showed in one of the first series a Syringa. Do you by accident know if this is a S chinensis?
Luit,
it is not a Syringa x chinensis. I have a look in one of the "big books" to check the colour of the flowers. Syringa chinensis has lilac flowers. So I look for other Syringa with this type of flowers. It is not S. reflexa, S. wolfii and S. swegiflexa. Sorry no idea what Lilac Cliff show. :'(
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Luit,
it is not a Syringa x chinensis. I have a look in one of the "big books" to check the colour of the flowers. Syringa chinensis has lilac flowers. So I look for other Syringa with this type of flowers. It is not S. reflexa, S. wolfii and S. swegiflexa. Sorry no idea what Lilac Cliff show. :'(
Uli, my brains mixed S. chinensis with S. x persica ??? Must have something to do with age... ::) :'(
I have a white form of S. x persica and it looks a bit like that??
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Luit,
Cliff show not a Syringa x persica and it is not the white form. We have Syringa persica in the nursery and the white form. They have both only some flowers on the tips of the branches. And the leafs are not so large.
A friend of mine at the botanical institute in Dresden do some field work about the genus Syringa. In his opinion we do not grow Syringa x persica in Europe. Because S. afghanica (one of parents) never excist.
The name come from a herbarium sheet, that show a hybrid with slit leafs.
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Ah shucks, Luc ... many thanks ... but JUMPING AROUND? My zimmer frame doesn't allow MUCH jumping! :D
Actually Cliff, I had been doubting wether to use "jumping around" or "ferociously sprinting about in purest Usain Bolt style"...
don't know why, but I opted for the first.. ::)
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More like energetic shuffling, Luc ... more 'shot the bolt' than Usain Bolt! ;D
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8) 8)
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I MUST know what that wonderful blue is please, between the Incarvillea and the Epipactis? Pretty please?
I've only just got round to looking at this thread - we went to see the alpine house on the Monday, and were very taken with the Veronica which was 'Kapitan'. Fantastic display, I'm lucky to live so close, and am looking forward to seeing how the planting develops.
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the Veronica which was 'Kapitan'.
Aha.
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Many thanks Anne,
Would it be possible that there were plants of both 'Kapitan' and 'Crater Lake Blue' in the alpine house? As soon as I read Maggi's suggestion, the name seemed to ring a very tiny bell in my cranium? Perhaps both labels were there?
The alpine house is certainly worth a visit, but I feel that much more could be made of the approaches to it ... will those great expanses of lawn be planted with bulbs or wild flowers in the fullness of time?
So sorry we couldn't get to your garden open on the same day - if the weather had looked any better then we would certainly have gone that extra half hour. Hope it went well?
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I wonder if, in the period between Cliff's visit and Anne's, the Veronica was swapped over..... they can't last too long in the open display; I would suspect they need refreshing quite often.
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I would suspect they need refreshing quite often.
So does my memory, Maggi ... !
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Ah well .. all good things come to an end ... the final two batches from Harlow Carr.
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The final batch from Harlow Carr.
Now back to images from Turkey ... you can't escape! ;D
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What a pleasure this visit has been. So much colour and variety.
I am constantly surprised at how advanced the plants are " down South" ...... lots of things that are only waking up here are in full glory at Harlow Carr :o
Thanks for taking us along, Cliff, glad it kept nice for it! ;D
Off to Turkey again now, are we? 8) I'll go make a few sandwiches and fill a flask.........
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What a lovely lot of photos Cliff :o Looks like you enjoyed your day. ;)
Eric