Royal Horticultural Society Garden Harlow Carr
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Royal Horticultural Society Garden Harlow Carr |
| Crag Lane, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG3 1QB, UK | |
| Tel: 01423 508237, 01423 565418 | |
| Fax: 01423 530663 | |
| Email: | |
| Web site: | |
| Latitude: 53° 56' 55" N / 53.9826508 | |
| Longitude: 1° 34' 23" W / -1.5727448 | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1950 - RHS merged with the Northern Horticultural Society in 2001 |
| Ownership: | Royal Horticultural Society |
| Garden code: | HARR |
| Umbrella organisation: | PlantNetwork, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens |
| i.e. PlantNet, BGCI, NCCPG; ICCP etc. | |
| Personnel | |
| Please include actual titles in brackets after the name i.e. Owner, Director/Manager, Curator/Head gardener. If you have other administrative staff, i.e. taxonomists, education officers etc. please add extra rows. | |
| Director of Horticulture: | Jim Gardiner |
| Director of Gardens: | James Rudoni |
| Curator: | Elizabeth Balmforth |
| Plant Records Officer: | Peter Fenton |
| Contact person: | Elizabeth Balmforth |
| Total Staff: | 70 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | 26 |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | |
| Collections: | |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 150 m |
| Soil type: | Clay, acid |
| Aspect: | Varied |
| Total area: | 27.5 ha |
| Area heated: | |
| Other sites of collection: | [link id='3497' text='RHS Garden Wisley'] [link id='3585' text='RHS Garden Rosemoor'] [link id='3567' text='RHS Garden Hyde Hall'] |
| Weather records | Records kept |
| Temperature | |
| Average daily: | 9 °C |
| Av. monthly max: | 19.4 °C |
| Av. monthly min: | -1.9 °C |
| Absolute maximum: | 30 °C |
| Absolute minimum: | -14.4 °C |
| Wind | |
| Direction: | |
| Strength: | Above average |
| Rainfall | |
| Average annual: | 813 mm |
| Month of maximum: | January |
| Month of minimum: | August |
| Plant collection | |
| Number of families: | |
| Number of genera: | |
| Number of species: | |
| Number of taxa: | |
| Accessions: | 10,000 |
| Number of plants: | |
| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Rheum, Dryopteris, Polypodium | |
| Special collections: | |
| Dryopteris, NCCPG – 16 Species, 46 Taxa, 70 Accessions, 100 Plants. Polypodium, NCCPG – 16 Species, 36 Taxa, 60 Accessions, 100 Plants. Rheum, NCCPG – 30 Species, 150 Taxa, 200 Accessions, 200 Plants. | |
| Record Keeping: | Records kept Computerised |
| Record System: | BG-Base |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | Yes. Members only access (Mon-Fri, 11.30am-3.30pm) |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Index Seminum, Garden guide, The Garden |
| Identifications: | Undertakes identifications for members. Internal verification of material |
| Teaching and Education: | Primary and secondary, potential for higher, and for taxonomic |
| Interpretation: | Supervised garden walks, signs, brochures, guided trails |
| Friends Organisation: | Members organisation |
| Visitor facilities: | Restaurant, café, plant shop, gift shop |
| Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc. | |
| What are the conditions of Access to the collections? | |
| Public access: | Admission charge |
| How many visitors do you get a year? | |
| Public opening hours: | Open every-day (except Christmas Day) 9.30am-6pm (4pm Nov-Feb inclusive) |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| The garden aims to grow plants suitable for cultivation in northern England. | |
| Location map | |
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