URPoint Details
Visitor centre; exhibition; shop; licensed restaurant. Please note: no shade in car park and no dogs allowed in garden. Disabled car parking spaces adjacent to Centre. Level access from car park. Shop has easy access. Garden: some paths in the 54-acre garden are suitable for wheelchairs. A map indicating suitable wheelchair paths is issued to all wheelchair users.
This outstanding climatically favoured garden set on a peninsula on the shores of Loch Ewe. It is an oasis of colour and fertility where exotic plants from many countries flourish on a latitude more northerly than Moscow and gives an almost continual display of colour throughout the year. Himalayan rhododendrons, Tasmanian eucalypts and many Chilean and South African plants are featured, together with a large collection of New Zealand plants including the National Collection of the genus Olearia. The explanation of this profusion is the effect of the North Atlantic Drift or Gulf Stream, which brings warm currents to the shores of the sea-loch.
- Type:
- Landmark