| Gardens - Day
Tours |
| Inverewe |
-
The National Trust for Scotland's Garden on the west Coast. A special day out in
good weather. A unique garden created in a wilderness with the help of wind
breaks, the warm Gulf Stream, and thousands of tons of top soil. Some plants for
sale. |
| Dochfor |
on
Lochness-side. Quiet position looking down to the Loch. |
| Cawdor Castle |
- Walled mature garden. |
| Brodie Castle |
and gardens. Superb
daffodils in April and early May. |
| Glen Grant
Distillery |
restored Victorian garden. |
| Alpine
Nurseries |
| Ardfearn |
at Bunchrew by the Beauly Firth. Maybe see the seals on the beach if the tide's
out. |
| Jack Drakes |
at Inshriach by
Aviemore. |
| Other Nurseries
and Garden Centres |
| Speyside
Heather and Garden Centre. |
- Specialising in heathers, but other
plants - and gifts - are available |
| Abriachan |
Herbs and Herbaceous Plants, plus indigenous trees. On Loch Ness-side. |
| Christies |
at
Forres. A wide range of plants. |
 |
Rare Plants in Curr Wood, a mature,
naturally regenerated Scots Pine wood behind the village are:
The Twin Flower, (Linnaea
Borealis) (picture, left)
Named after Carl von Linne, the Swedish botanist who
developed the nomenclature system used for all plants. Curr Wood is
accessible from the back of the village and contains the greatest number
(43) of botanically diverse Twin Flower in Scotland. There are only 18
records of this plant in the rest of the country. The flowering takes
place in mid June to July. |
| Creeping Ladies Tresses
(Goodyera repens) the creeping
miniature orchid. Chickweed Wintergreen (Trientalis europaea) Wood Anemone
(Anemone nemorosa) and Heather in the early autumn. First the
Bell
Heather (Erica cinerea) flowers, then Cross-Leaved
Heath (Erica tetralix) and lastly the most common, Ling. (Calluna
vulgaris). |
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