Description:
Aird View
30a Camault Muir, Kiltarlity IV4 7JH (Sheila Ross): The garden at Aird View offers a mix of borders, a water feature, an arbour and a newly-added herbaceous border. There are also fruit trees and vegetable beds. Vintage tractors on display.
Buchollie House (NEW)
Buchollie House, Boblainy, Kiltarlity IV4 7HX (Sue Marshall): Buchollie House has an informal but varied woodland garden of about one acre. It incorporates herbaceous borders, raised vegetable beds, and a shaded glade planted with rhododendrons and azaleas, as well as more natural areas and a wildflower patch. There is a large wildlife pond and the garden attracts a huge variety of woodland birds and animals. It is a good example of a large garden that is relatively easy to manage and maintain.
Glaich Na Goire (NEW)
9 Loanechheim, Kiltarlity, Beauly IV4 7JQ (Ethna Ferguson): An informal one acre garden of many parts. Highlights include a bog garden you can walk through, busy vegetable beds, established herbaceous and shrub borders, woodland edge and specimen trees.
Highland Liliums
10 Loaneckheim, Kiltarlity IV4 7JQ (Laura Evans): Highland Liliums is a working retail nursery with spectacular views over the Beauly valley and Strathfarrar hills. A wide selection of home-grown plants are available including alpines, ferns, grasses, herbaceous, herbs, liliums, primulas and shrubs.
Monarda House
Kiltarlity, Beauly IV4 7HX (Dickon and Barbara Sandbach): An evolving, productive garden with a mix of ornamental and native plantings over four acres. An easy circuit, in proximity to the house on even paths, displays a variety of conifers, shrubs and herbaceous plants, with a summer house. A wider circuit, for which stouter footwear is recommended, includes raised vegetable beds, polytunnel, chicken run, a young orchard, nuttery and mature woodland, with a pine-lined avenue up to the fledgling arboretum. Beyond is a rough-pathed area of regenerative wood, wildflower meadow, mature trees and willow coppice, to the old stable apiary, returning along a track sided with ornamental cherries.
Stockheim
Allaburn, Kiltarlity IV4 7HG (Brigitte and Tom Murdoch): Brigette's modest sized garden envelopes her home in the village of Kiltarlity. The garden has been developed bit by bit over the 40 years Brigette has lived here, with lots to see - but no promises of what'll be in flower. Seasonal highlights include daphnes, hostas, a well-established raised bed and a warm welcome.
Directions:
Aird View take the A833 Beauly to Drumnadrochit Road, pass Brockies Lodge. Turn right at the bus shelter and follow the single track road to the junction at the school. Turn left and go up the hill to the top, at the junction Aird View is on the right.
Buchollie House leave Kiltarlity Village in the direction of Cannich and take the first left which is signed to Clunevackie. The house is about one mile up the road on the left hand side. There is disabled parking at the house: the main parking can be found about 200 metres further up the hill near Monarda which is also open on the same day.
Glaich Na Goire Parking at Highland Liliums Garden Centre only five minutes walk away. There is disabled parking at Glaich na Goire.
Highland Liliums signposted from Kiltarlity Village, which is just off the Beauly to Drumnadrochit road (A833), approximately 12 miles from Inverness.
Monarda House from the A833 Beauly to Drumnadrochit Road, turn into Kiltarlity. Drive right through the village, over a small bridge and take the next turn left, signed to Clunevackie. Continue for 1.3 miles until you see a forest track straight ahead and the road bears left; Monarda House is the next house on the right. What3words: valuables.teaches.brave
Stockheim coming into Kiltarlity Village from Inverness, go past the village hall, keep going through the village until you cross a small stone bridge then take the next left. The garden will be signposted.
Other details:
Homemade teas and discounted plants for sale at Highland Liliums. Entrance fee covers all six gardens.
