Site Updated 19/01/2012 We are a family-run  retail plant nursery. We have been growing  & selling an extremely  wide selection of plants  here in the Scottish  Highlands since 1979. We have for sale Alpines Bedding Plants Bulbs Dwarf Conifers  Ferns Grasses Heathers Herbs  House Plants  Perennials Shrubs And a few Trees. The majority grown on  site with care & love by  Ben & Lesley  Rushbrooke. When the midges are  too bad or the rain too  heavy you can take  shelter in Ron’s Second  Hand Bookshop.  We are not a Garden  Centre, so no tea room  or gift shop, all our  effort goes into  producing top quality &  excellent value plants.    Mail Order Now Available Our Mail Order service for customers in the UK will run until March.   Plants are sent out via Royal Mail From Lands End to Yell, order early to avoid  disappointment.         Right click & “Save Target As...”       To make it easier to use. Opening Hours We are now Closed for the winter we will open again in March. We are open from Monday to Saturday  10am to 6pm. From mid March until late October. We are near Poolewe in Wester Ross, in the remote & beautiful North West Highlands of  Scotland and 2kms north of the world renowned Inverewe Gardens.  Made with Xara © Garden Cottage Nursery, 2011 Welcome Our Mail Order Catalogue (It’s a PDF so you’ll need Adobe Reader to read it) Right click on the link & select “Save Target As...” to download a copy. Our Stock reflects the prevailing conditions here, with lots of salty wind, high rainfall & fairly mild but  long winters, as well as lots of poor, shallow, highly acidic peaty soils.  As such  conditions make some forms of ‘conventional’ gardening difficult & there is little readily  available information on how to grow plants up here we have written several  informational pieces to help customers get the most from their gardens or just to know more about what make plants tick.  Amongst Our Stock We have many Brachyglottis, Hebe, Olearia & Ozothamnus. We offer more varieties than anyone else of Olearia, a rather neglected genus of great variety and utility. We also offer much else besides which is rare and unusual as well as some of the more run-of-the-mill  old favourites. Other popular specialities include the bog loving ‘candelabra’ Primulas  Erythronium & Crocosmia.  Visit Wester Ross Our nursery is located in a beautiful part of the country and itself is in a lovely sheltered  setting with the sales frames arranged around the garden. Surprisingly though we are  not all that is worth seeing hereabouts. When you are done here please follow this link to a new site set up by members of the local community to attract visitors & make people  aware of what’s going on.  Second Hand Books Ron has a Portakabin stuffed with thousands of books here to keep non-gardening  spouses amused or to provide a shelter from midges & rain. We also have a new small  branch with Ron’s Book Bothy upstairs in Poolewe Village Hall.  Gallery Pictures speak a thousand words, and when it comes to describing plants those words  are mostly Latin jargon, so if you don’t know your cordate from your palmate having a  picture helps. Nearly every plant that goes through the nursery gets it’s photo taken, we  are uploading most of these plant portraits to the photo sharing site Flickr. Want some cut-out & keep desktop backgrounds? Here are some pretty  pictures for you. Flickr Slide show Click on play to see a selection of the images we have uploaded to the photo sharing site Flickr. Double click on a picture to see the photo on our Flickr photostream, clicking the “Show Info” bar shows the  name of the plant & a description. Spring Mail Orders With mild weather not far away & the days rapidly lengthening thoughts turn again to  outside & the garden. We will soon start posting out Spring Mail Orders. Order new plants now to help your patch become the envy of the neighbourhood in 2012.  Better still, why not get the whole neighbourhood to place a single super-order & save on  postage.