How it all began, Ron (on the right) in the sales area with his brother Wilfred in early June1979, we started with a few bedding plants & cacti sold from a lain down old door.
Slowly we have grown over the years, clearing more and more Rhododendron ponticum and adding more sales area & our range.

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We are a small family run retail nursery, Ron Rushbrooke is the owner, he does the Bookshop & also works as the gardener on the estate the nursery is on.  If you come here it is His wife Lesley and eldest son Ben that you will see, as they run the nursery.

The nursery is open from March to October and we try to offer a good selection of seasonal items such as flowering bulbs in spring and bedding plants in May & June, along with our year round mainstays of alpines, herbaceous & shrubs.

Before His 2nd birthday Ben was already directing operations.

30 years later & things are bit more developed with hundreds of different plants on sale amongst the established flower beds.

Our stock changes pretty much weekly as varieties sell out and new ones become ready for sale.  We produce as many of our own plants as possible,
supplementing our own plants with those bought in as plugs, small plants, which we grow on before selling & some larger plants which will go straight-on-sale.

In spite of what you might of heard it doesn’t actually rain all of the time & sometimes we do have to water the plants. Though it does rain quite a lot & it can often get rather windy.

Due to the interesting climate of the Northwest Highlands we grow lots of plants that will thrive in exposed & boggy conditions, things like Olearia, Hebe, Astilbe & Primula.

We shut the nursery; deal with mail orders, clear-up storm damage, make changes & repairs to the nursery.  We also enjoy the long hours of darkness & incessant rain & wind.

And then if we have managed to sell enough plants during the summer, Ben may just skive off to Australia or New Zealand for a month or so for some plant spotting.

So to answer that most frequently asked question:  'What do you do in the winter?'

                 Seedlings of Tulbaghia                       Shrub cuttings & pricked out seedlings

    Young Caltha & Weigela in small pots              Well grown shrubs ready to go on sale