The white trumpets of the striking Cardiocrinum (Giant Himalayan lilies) cast their strong scent at Clive’s Pond.

Three unusual Yucca rostrata from Mexico have just been installed in front of the Visitor Centre, exotic replacements for plants damaged in two hard winters.
Also to be found in the Walled Garden: a mix of ‘Royal Family’ sweet peas, scrambling up the new wooden trellis frames.
Towards the end of the month, for just a few days, the brilliant, gold-tipped, scarlet bursts of the ‘New Zealand Christmas Tree'
(Metrosideros umbellata) sparkle on the grassy half-moon along the Drive.

The myriad white, hanging bells of the New Zealand Hoheria fall quite quickly to make a white carpet on the ground below. A tall shrub found quite widely through the Garden, this one is near the variegated Turkey Oak.


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‘Lucifer’ is the most vivid Crocosmia – there’s a big patch to catch the eye in the Walled Garden.
And to brighten the day, whatever the weather - cheerful ‘Little Dorrit’, a shorter sunflower with a huge, golden face.
There are a number of different examples of the evergreen, sun-loving Brachyglottis. This one is at the end of the Drive, close to Inverewe House.
Mitraria coccinea is a long-flowering Chilean climber which clings to the rock faces and shady banks in the woodlands.
It’s only when the waxy orange/yellow tubular flowers appear that it becomes evident that Desfontainea spinosa from Chile is not just a spreading holly bush. The clump in Creag a Lios has been there for at least fifty years.