Achamore Gardens

Spring Bank

Extending some 250 yards south from the walled garden. The Spring Bank has some of the earliest flowering of our Rhododendrons. The bank path starts among some dwarf and slow growing conifers including Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana Pottenii, Thuja Orientalis Autrea Nana and Thuja Occidentalis Ohlendorfii, then meanders it's way up through evergreen Azaleas and levels out below a large clump of Phormium (flax). The path to the right leads to the viewpoint, which gives fine views of Islay, Jura and the hills of Northern Ireland.

Returning to the path and following it south, you will pass Rhododendrons, Oreotrephes, Princess Alice and orange-red Rh.Keysii, Praecox, and Cilipinense amongst others.