European Gardening: What's occuring in the backyard?, 0 by Patbarr

Patbarr wrote:
I visited the National Botanic Garden for Wales near Carmarthen a couple of weeks ago and it was wonderful. The glasshouse is amazing equally as good as the Eden project and the whole site and gardens were excellent. It is all set in beautiful scenery and well worth a visit.

This is inside the greenhouse.

I've also been to a rare plant sale at the Sheffield Botanic gardens and bought more plants, and today a gardening friend and I went to Harlow Car gardens at Harrogate where I restrained myself and only bought one plant. Unfortunately their catering has now been taken over by Betty's Tea Rooms and I'm afraid my restraint didn't go so far as avoiding their fantastic cakes (twice).

Harlow Car gardens has recently received funding and has improved dramatically with more gardeners to maintain it and lots of refurbishment of old areas and the creation of meadows and a new kitchen garden area. Another excellent and very enjoyable day out.