Site Updated 03/05/2012 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.    Availability List Now the spring is here and we are open we have lots of plants out on sale to visitors. At this time of year with the furious pace of spring potting new plants are coming out on  sale daily so this list with its ~500 plants is already incomplete   and will become quickly more so, but I have simplified the  way I make the list so it can be updated regularly.              Right click & “Save Target As...”       To make it easier to use. Opening Hours We are now open again for the season, come and see us!. 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, 2012 Welcome Our Current Availability List (It’s a PDF so you’ll need Adobe Reader to read it) We suggest you 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. If you would like some cut-out & keep desktop backgrounds? Here are some  pretty pictures for you. 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. Veg Plants Now In We now have in young plants of brassicas, lettuce, leeks, tomatoes, cucumbers,  courgettes, sweet and chilli peppers.  So all budding Good Lifers come around to us and  get growing your own.  Garden Cottage Nursery On The Road Throughout the warmer months we have a stall at various local markets: Poolewe Tuesday Market - Every Tuesday in Poolewe Village Hall Ullapool Market - Fortnightly on Saturdays in the car park of the Seaforth Hotel (28th April, 12th May, 26th May, etc.) Lochcarron Producers Day - in Lochcarron Village Hall the last Friday of each month.  If you want Lesley to bring you a certain plant phone ahead on 01445 781777. Bedding Plants Coming Soon Summer colour lovers; hold your horses for just now, the cold nights are still with us and  the first swallows have only just arrived. We should have the first of the summer bedding  in for the middle of the month. Until then we have some packs of pansies, violas and  sweet peas to tide you over. Or why not plant perennials instead, lots of colour and  interest and they don’t have to be re-planted every year!