Tough and beautiful plants
grown in the Scottish Highlands
Welcome
Site Updated 06/04/2021
We are a family-run retail plant nursery.
We have been growing and selling an extremely wide
selection of plants here in the beautiful and rugged 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 of our plants are grown on site with care and
love by Ben and Lesley Rushbrooke.
We are not a Garden Centre, so no tearoom or gift shop, all
our effort goes into producing top quality and excellent value
plants. We offer an unmatched range of plants suitable for
the West Coast of Scotland.
We have a regularly updated and almost fully illustrated 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.
We grow loads of very wind hardy shrubs, like Olearia, Hebe, Brachyglottis, Escallonia and Ozothamnus.
We also grow lots of bog plant like Primula, Astilbe and Iris. We’ve also a fondness for woodland plants like
Erythronium, Trillium and Kirengeshoma.
Opening Times
10am to 6pm. Monday to Saturday. March to end of October or by appointment.
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.
What We Grow
The prevailing conditions in our area is lots of salty wind, high rainfall and fairly mild but long winters, as well as
lots of poor, shallow, highly acidic peaty soils. We specialise in plants to suit these conditions.
‘Conventional’ gardening difficult here and there is little readily available information on how to grow plants in
our conditions. So we have written several informational pieces to help customers choose the right plants.
© Garden Cottage Nursery, 2021
Find Us On Facebook
Click the logo to see our Facebook page. Lesley and Ben post to it fairly regularly to let everyone know what
we’re up to.
OPEN AGAIN!
The Nursery is open to the public once again. Current restrictions in Scotland allow you to travel to a nursery or
garden centre within you local authority region, i.e. Highland.
Our sales area is entirely outdoors with plenty of room for customers to safley browse.
You can also phone ahead (01445 781777 or 07468 250719) a ‘Click & Collect’ order to be picked up from our
carpark. Please visit our Facebook page to see some nice seasonal collections that you to order.
Doing It For The ‘Gram
Most days Ben takes a few snaps of flowers in The Nursery and adds them to his Instagram story, it’s a good
way to get an idea of what we have that is looking good on the nursery right now.
Tough and beautiful plants
grown in the Scottish Highlands
Welcome
Site Updated 06/04/2021
We are a family-run retail plant nursery.
We have been growing and selling an extremely wide selection
of plants here in the beautiful and rugged 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 of our plants are grown on site with care and love
by Ben and Lesley Rushbrooke.
We are not a Garden Centre, so no tearoom or gift shop, all our
effort goes into producing top quality and excellent value plants.
We offer an unmatched range of plants suitable for the West
Coast of Scotland.
© Garden Cottage Nursery, 2021
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.
Some of Ron’s Books can be found on ABE
Books and at his ebay Store.
We have a regularly updated and almost fully
illustrated 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.
We grow loads of very wind hardy shrubs, like
Olearia, Hebe, Brachyglottis, Escallonia and
Ozothamnus.
We also grow lots of bog plant like Primula,
Astilbe and Iris. We’ve also a fondness for
woodland plants like Erythronium, Trillium and
Kirengeshoma.
Opening Times
10am to 6pm. Monday to Saturday. March
to end of October or by appointment.
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.
What We Grow
The prevailing conditions in our area is lots of
salty wind, high rainfall and fairly mild but long
winters, as well as lots of poor, shallow, highly
acidic peaty soils. We specialise in plants to
suit these conditions.
‘Conventional’ gardening difficult here and
there is little readily available information on
how to grow plants in our conditions. So we
have written several informational pieces to
help customers choose the right plants.
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Find Us On Facebook
Click the logo to see our Facebook page.
Lesley and Ben post to it fairly regularly to let
everyone know what we’re up to.
OPEN AGAIN!
The Nursery is open to the public once
again. Current restrictions in Scotland allow
you to travel to a nursery or garden centre
within you local authority region, i.e.
Highland.
Our sales area is entirely outdoors with
plenty of room for customers to safley
browse.
You can also phone ahead (01445 781777
or 07468 250719) a ‘Click & Collect’ order to
be picked up from our carpark. Please visit
our Facebook page to see some nice
seasonal collections that you to order.
Doing It For The ‘Gram
Most days Ben takes a few snaps of flowers
in The Nursery and adds them to his
Instagram story, it’s a good way to get an
idea of what we have that is looking good on
the nursery right now.
