Qualla: Achamore House https://qualla.com/achamore-house en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Achamore House https://qualla.com/achamore-house Achamore House: Introduction https://qualla.com/achamore-house/ Sir James Horlick bought the Isle of Gigha in 1944 because he had run out of room. His plant collection in Berkshire - assembled over decades by a man whose family fortune came from a powdered hot drink called Horlick's malted milk - had grown beyond what an inland English estate could host. He needed somewhere wetter and warmer, somewhere on the Gulf Stream, somewhere with no frost and walls that would shelter young plants from the Atlantic gales. He found the Isle of Gigha, four miles off the coast of Kintyre, and bought it with the gardens of Achamore House as the working core of his eventual project.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/u/achamore-house-wp/gcgu-achamore-house-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Achamore House: The House https://qualla.com/achamore-house/ Achamore was built in 1884 for Lieutenant-Colonel William James Scarlett, a Crimean War veteran whose family had owned Gigha since 1856. The architect was John Honeyman of Honeyman and Keppie, a Glasgow firm that would soon employ the young Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The house is...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/u/achamore-house-wp/gcgu-achamore-house-the-house.mp3 0:06 2 full Achamore House: Horlick's Project https://qualla.com/achamore-house/ Between 1944 and his death in 1972, Horlick - the fourth baronet, grandson of one of the brothers who founded the Horlick's company in Chicago in 1873 - built up what is now recognised as one of the most significant private rhododendron collections in Scotland. The Gulf Stream-wa...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/u/achamore-house-wp/gcgu-achamore-house-horlicks-project.mp3 0:06 3 full Achamore House: Independence Day https://qualla.com/achamore-house/ After Horlick the island went through a succession of private owners with varying degrees of attention to it. By the early 2000s the population had fallen to 98, the housing was in poor condition, and the islanders were tired of waking up to news of another sale to another absent...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/u/achamore-house-wp/gcgu-achamore-house-independence-day.mp3 0:06 4 full Achamore House: What Grows Here https://qualla.com/achamore-house/ The best time to visit Achamore is May and June, when the rhododendrons - more than 50 named cultivars in the collection, some unique to Gigha - hit their full intensity of colour. The walls of pink and crimson and lilac in the main woodland garden are the kind of thing that stop...

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