Old Allangrange
Visit an ornamental Black Isle garden with champion trees, a productive market garden and wildlife-friendly permaculture features.
The house sits in the middle of the ornamental garden with several different, distinctive areas. Hedges formal and informal, pleached, cloud-pruned, play an important role within the garden to separate the areas. Particularly of note is the mound which children love to climb up and roll down. We also have a substantial market garden which is designed to be beautiful as well as productive.
Increasing biodiversity is a crucial part of how we garden, and are pleased to note that through one of our ecological initiatives, putting in a tree-surrounded pond, we have had the largest number of hawfinches ever caught on camera in Scotland (24 in one photo). We have fun ways of increasing life in the garden and on the farm - replacing fences with log hedges and brash bunds fish whinrows, planting, and letting areas go wild and rough.
We use no dig, permaculture and agroforestry techniques. Also open concurrently with our garden is the Go Flourish School Garden at North Kessock, which is the charity supported through our openings. Champion Trees: Yew and sweet chestnut. Accès : From Inverness head four miles north on the A9, and follow the directions for Black Isle Brewery. Park up at the Brewery and walk down to the garden. Directions will be given in the shop. GoFlourish garden in North Kessock is accessed from Drumsmittal Road. Organiser: J J Gladwin