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Inverewe Garden tel: 01445 781200 Area: Scotland |
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| Visitor Information | www.nts.org.uk | |||||||||||||
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| Inverewe Garden Scotland All details updated* as of: 21/02/2008 |
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| Opening Days and Hours | ||||||||||||||
Garden: 1st Jan to 16th Mar, daily 10am -3pm; 17th Mar to 31st Oct, 9.30am - 8pm or sunset if earlier (last entry 5pm, or 6pm 5th May to 31st Aug); 1st Nov to 31st Dec, daily 10am - 3pm |
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| Parties
/ Coaches: Yes Yes, but pre-booking recommended and essential for claiming group discount. |
Groups
/ Coaches need Appointment: Yes Guides to lead groups need to be booked in advance - except for free guided walks held at 1.30pm, Mon - Fri, Apr - Sept. |
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House
Open for Viewing: no |
National
Garden Scheme days: Yes SGS days 14th Apr; 9.30am - 5pm 9th Sept |
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| Best
Times of Year to Visit: April - June |
To
see: Plant collection remarkable for this latitude and exposed site; rhododendrons & Southern Hemisphere plants particularly strong. |
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| Admission Prices | ||||||||||||||
| Adult £8; Concession £5.25; Family £20; Family (1parent) £16 | ||||||||||||||
| Onsite Facilities | ||||||||||||||
| Parking:
Yes Lavatories: Yes Disabled Access: Yes |
Shop:
Yes Plants for Sale: Yes Lunches: Yes |
Teas:
Yes Light Refreshment: Yes Picnics: Yes |
Dogs
Allowed: No On Lead only: No Special Events: Yes |
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| Other
Facilities: Ranger-led walks in surrounding estate. |
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| Garden Features | ||||||||||||||
| One of the most picturesque walled gardens in the country with woodland walks, many of them wheelchair-accessible. There is a diverse plant collection. | English Heritage Garden Grade: | |||||||||||||
| National Collection: Brachyglottis; Olearia; Rhododendron subsections Barbata, Glischra & Maculifera. | ||||||||||||||
| Description of Garden | Designer:
Osgood Mackenzie, Mairi Sawyer & NTS Head Gardeners |
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| The garden is amongst the finest in Europe, and is one of the best-known and most visited gardens in Scotland (c. 100,000 visitors p.a.) It is set on the slopes - mainly south-facing - of a peninsula of Torridonian sandstone jutting out into Loch Ewe. It has an idiosyncratic walled garden, and a lawn, herbaceous border and rockery in front of the mansion house. Otherwise it is principally a woodland garden, with a wide array of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants set within a mixed canopy of sheltering trees. There are ponds, glades and viewpoints out to the magnificent coastal and mountain scenery that surround the garden. It is regarded as a nationally important 'work of art' in "An Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland" (1987). | ||||||||||||||
| History of Garden | ||||||||||||||
| The site was a barren headland, sheep-grazed, until bought for Osgood Mackenzie by his mother in 1863. They first built a house, with a driveway to it below which was set a curving walled garden created from a former raised beach. There was some initial planting in the early 1860's, but it was probably not until later that decade that widespread planting of a woodland shelter-belt began. From c1890 onwards, major planting of exotic plants - eg rhododendron species then being newly introduced from China/Himalayas - started in clearings created within the developing woodland. Development was continued by Mairi Sawyer, Osgood's daughter. Her two husbands and two sons all pre-deceased her, so in 1952 she finally offered the garden and 2,000 acres of surrounding estate to the National Trust for Scotland, with an endowment and support from the Pilgrim Trust, to ensure its future. | ||||||||||||||
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| Inns & Pubs: Please call Tourist Information Centre in Gairloch 01445 712130 |
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