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Rothesay is the main town of the Isle of Bute, a traditional Clyde resort set on a sheltered bay midway along the island's east coast. Victorian hotels, the famous Winter Garden and the ruins of Rothesay Castle mark the town's heyday as a Glasgow holiday destination. The island's northern half is more rugged moorland while the southern half carries improved grassland and the estate parkland of Mount Stuart. The sheltered Ettrick Bay on the west coast carries white clover and meadow flowers, and Bute's mild Clyde climate supports sycamore, lime and elder in the town policies through a long season.

Heather is the defining flow of Argyll — Calluna vulgaris covers the hills, glens and island moors from late July into September, offering one of the longest heather seasons in Scotland. Gorse and broom flower in two flushes — April and again in late summer — on every rocky coastal headland and glen-side. Sycamore is the principal woodland forage tree, prolific in the sheltered sea-loch valleys and estate policies from late April. Bramble is abundant on the lower ground and forest clearings from July. White clover grows on the improved coastal grassland of the Kintyre plain, the Isle of Bute and the Oban hinterland. Cross-leaved heath in the wetter blanket bogs supplements the main heather flow on the islands.