Grow Your Own Veg Day: 18 May
Join our gardening team for an abundance of ideas and advice – including container herbs and vegetables, hanging baskets and flavoursome flowers. Plus children’s activities include how to sow a packed lunch, and creating a giant garden collage.
Download the programme of events for this day (Adobe Acrobat pdf 186KB)
Step into Spring
Celebrate spring at Harlow Carr with something for all the family from our Grow Your Own Veg Day to our Wildlife in the Garden week over May half term.
With Betty's Cafe Tea Rooms and our fabulous Shop and Plant Centre all on site, there's so much to enjoy at Harow Carr.
More information on our spring events
Support our new alpine house
Our wonderful assortment of alpines are in urgent need of a new home. Although much loved, the two glasshouses where the alpines are currently displayed are over 40 years old and are quite literally falling apart.
The great news is that plans are already in place to replace them with one state of the art, safe and modern glasshouse. But for this to go ahead, we need support to help finance the building work.
Will you help us create a new home for our wonderful alpines?
Find out more
Garden leaflet
Download a lo-res Adobe Acrobat pdf of the free leaflet, which provides information on the garden (154KB)
Download a hi-res Adobe Acrobat pdf of the free leaflet (692KB)
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Harlow Carr is the newest and most northerly of the four RHS gardens. This, along with its challenging growing conditions, offers an ideal place to view what can be grown successfully in the region.
The garden is seeing exciting new developments while retaining its uniquely tranquil and welcoming atmosphere. Probably the most spectacular are the dramatic new Rose Revolution borders that edge the path to Gardens through Time . Their use of mixed perennials, grasses and roses beautifully combines sustainable practice, inspirational horticulture and a contemporary twist! Also not to be missed are the superb new Main Borders - a gorgeous mix of herbaceous perennials, grasses and shrubs, starting with hot vibrant colours, and gradually moving to cooler shades towards the streamside. Gardens through Time takes you through 200 years of living gardening history up to a contemporary garden designed by Diarmuid Gavin.
The garden offers interest for all seasons - from vegetables to wildflowers and alpines to woodland - and now the fabulous Bettys Café Tea Rooms and Shop offering delicious food and the best teas and coffees.