Site Updated 21/05/2013 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.    The Met Office Local  Weather forecast: Opening Hours 10am to 6pm. Monday to Saturday. 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.  See our directions page for details of how to get here. Made with Xara © Garden Cottage Nursery, 2013 Welcome Tough and Beautiful plants grown in the Scottish Highlands. 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 genus of great variety and utility. We also offer much else  besides that is rare & unusual as well as some of the more run-of-the-mill old favourites.  Other popular specialities include the bog loving ‘candelabra’ Primulas, Erythronium for  the spring through to Crocosmia for the autumn. 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 Founder of the nursery Ron Rushbrooke now sells second hand books through the  internet and from Ron’s Book Bothy upstairs in Poolewe Village Hall above his daughter  Alison’s Button Bothy jewellery studio.  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. We keep  adding more photos all the time and we regularly update the index here. If you would like some free cut-out & keep desktop backgrounds? Here are  some pretty pictures for you. We’ve just added a couple more backgrounds. Flickr Slide show Click on play to see a seasonal 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. Garden Cottage Nursery On The Road Throughout the warmer months Lesley has a stall at various local markets: Poolewe Tuesday Market - Every Tuesday in Poolewe Hall. Ullapool Market - Fortnightly on Saturdays in the car park of the Seaforth Hotel. (4th May, 18th May, 1st June, 15th June, 29th June...) Lochcarron Producers Day - in Lochcarron Village Hall the last Friday of each month.  (31st May, 28th June, 26th July, 30th August) If you want Lesley to bring a certain plant with her for you e-mail or phone ahead on 01445 781777. Veg Plant Time We still have a few packs of brassicas left as well as mixed oriental salad and lettuce. We  also have a new batch of pot veg with; tomatoes, courgettes, cucumber, sweet and hot  chillies as well as mange tout peas and strawberries.  To enliven your veggie dishes we also have a comprehensive selection of herb plants  including parsley and coriander as well as perennial favourites like rosemary and thyme. NEW!  Searchable Availability List Through much ham-fisted coding Ben has managed to make our (semi)regularly updated availability list searchable by name, cultural preferences and such, so now you can see  just what shrubs we have for windy wet and shady sites!  Bedding Plants Though the midges still haven’t arrived that other herald of summer has... We have a great range of bedding plants for all your basket and planter needs from the  bold and brash to the subtle and tasteful.