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Inverewe Gardens lie on the latitude of Labrador and Leningrad, but it has the blessing of the warm air off the Gulf stream. Thus exotic plants from the Pacific and South America, South Africa and the Himalayas are allowed to create a panoply of colour almost the whole year round in a magnificent setting on the shore of Loch Ewe. When Osgood Mackenzie set to work here in 1862, there was only a heather moor and a single diminutive willow tree, but now giant forget-me-nots, exotic lilies and bamboos jostle other rare plants among the sheltering firs and pines. Inverewe Gardens was given to the National Trust for Scotland in 1952. Take a short day trip from our bed and breakfast accommodation.