We had our 'works outing' today when five of us went to Harlow Carr (the Royal Horticultural Society's centre in the north). The day was beautiful, and so were the gardens. Dianne went round with her eye glued to the camera doing her imitation of a Japanese tourist (actually getting her daughter material for her RHS course), and we all took some photographs.
I like these mixed beds which are similar to the planting I have done on a small scale this year.
And these are also rather lovely
This innovative dragon with its body made of stabilised log piles which children can climb on was great fun . . .
. . . but can innovation go too far?
I thought that the 'period garedens' were rather poor, and we all agreed that the so-called 1950s garden bore no resemblance to any garden any of us remember from our childhood.
We started with coffee at Betty's and ended the afternoon there with cream teas.
Dianne, Margaret, Sharon, Hilary, me.
lizdavies
I've never been to Harlow Carr gardens, but it's one of my parents' regular places to visit.