How do you raise a Ransome for Sweet Cicely? By presenting a big bunch of Golden flowers of Cowslip of course. We are wild about our Torridon grounds and with spring in full flow, we are gathering wild herbs to compliment the herbs from the kitchen garden. Just a hint of wild garlic, just a [...]

It is that wonderful time of year again when the leaves are slowly unfurling and flower spikes are bursting into bloom. In other words, it is a great time to visit the Torridon estate gardens and estate. The apple blossom is on the cusp of exploding into those delicate pink and white flowers which arrive [...]

Our raised beds and generous use of compost are paying dividends this Spring with a good early crop of rhubarb. That should please our executive chef Bruno Birbeck as it always reminds him of home cooking from his native Cumbria. It is the European capital of rhubarb and the forcing sheds will be in full [...]

The first daffodils of the year have been cut and Natalia, the Torridon Restaurant supervisor, will be displaying them in all their golden glory for our guests to enjoy. They must be one of everyone’s favourite flowers, real harbingers of springtime. Daffodils are just the first of many cut flowers to be brought up from [...]

We have been busy preparing the Torridon kitchen garden for the new season. Yes, spring is in the air, our first snowdrops and a few polyanthuses are in flower and soon we will get a flush of narcissi. We have jerusalem artichokes for soups and puree and land cress, and wood sorrel from our woodlands [...]