Tough and beautiful plants
grown in the Scottish Highlands
Welcome
Site Updated 06/08/2022
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, 2022
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.
Late Summer
August in Scottish gardens is associated with the large colourful daisies of the American praries like
Rudbeckia, Helenium and Symphyotrichum (Aster) and hardy South African perennials like the cool coloured
Agapanthus and hot coloured Crocosmia.
As the hillsides colour with purple heather in gardens we have a broader pallet.
Hydrangeas are noteable at this time but many other shrubs are still flowering like Escallonia ‘Iveyi’ and
Lavatera
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 06/08/2022
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, 2022
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.
Late Summer
August in Scottish gardens is associated
with the large colourful daisies of the
American praries like Rudbeckia, Helenium
and Symphyotrichum (Aster) and hardy
South African perennials like the cool
coloured Agapanthus and hot coloured
Crocosmia.
As the hillsides colour with purple heather in
gardens we have a broader pallet.
Hydrangeas are noteable at this time but
many other shrubs are still flowering like
Escallonia ‘Iveyi’ and Lavatera
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.
