A Senior Gardener’s Tale at Ardtornish
As this is my first Blog, I feel I should introduce myself. My name is John and I am the Senior Gardener at Ardtornish. I was promoted last Autumn, previously having held the post of [...]
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11, 2017
Winter on the Ardtornish Estate – A Seasonal Trilogy (part 2)
When we visited the Ardtornish Estate last month, autumn was in full bloom. We’d been hoping for an Indian summer but got grey skies and soaked to the bone. Despite the foul weather it [...]
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10, 2017
Autumn on the Ardtornish Estate – a Seasonal Trilogy (part 1)
While our travels around Scotland take us far and wide, they rarely afford us the opportunity to linger long in a place. So, when I was invited to enjoy a taste of autumn, winter and [...]
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06, 2017
Ardtornish Estate Newsletter June 2017
CEO Update I am very pleased to present this newsletter on behalf of everyone at Ardtornish and many thanks for the contributions from colleagues. The first 6 months of 2017 have been very busy and [...]
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06, 2017
Annual Report, 2016
A word from Dennis Overton, OBE, Chairman of the Ardtornish Estate Company. Dennis Overton, OBE I’m delighted to introduce this, our third such annual report, on behalf of the team at Ardtornish [...]
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05, 2017
Mad Dogs and English Women!!
Long gone has the winter although April did bring us a few flurries of snow, usual unpredictable West Coast weather, Hello Spring! May Day arrived and to our surprise so did the sun. Long [...]
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05, 2017
Kitchen Garden Spring Update 28th April 2017
It has been sometime since my last blog on the developments in the Kitchen Garden. It has been a really busy but rewarding winter and even with the brief snow showers at the back end [...]
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05, 2017
Hydro Power
The Turn of the Screw’...not the renowned Henry James novel, but the story of our magnificent Archimedean screw...the new source of hydro power at Ardtornish Estate. So apart from producing a mesmerising water motion just [...]
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08, 2015
ABC – Ardtornish Bee Colony
Our honeybees arrived in mid-July, after causing a bit of a buzz at the local Morvern Games, where folk could see them in the observation hive. They were a colony from Spean Bridge, Inverness-shire. We [...]
