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Tarbert is a picturesque fishing village at the northern end of the Kintyre peninsula, set on the narrow isthmus between East and West Loch Tarbert where the peninsula almost joins the mainland. The harbour is overlooked by the ruins of Tarbert Castle on the hill above, and the surrounding hills carry heather moorland and gorse scrub typical of mid-Argyll. The East Loch Tarbert foreshore and the woodland between Tarbert and Skipness provide sycamore, alder and elder. The village is a hub for the Loch Fyne shellfish economy and has a traditional character retained through careful conservation.

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.