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Bluebell Croft

2 luxury, 5*, accessible self-catering units in a rural setting on the West Coast of Scotland. Poultry
Chickens and ducks provide all our eggs.
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OUR CROFT
You don’t have to pull on boots and get your hands dirty when you stay with us. However, many visitors return year after year because they and their children enjoy experiencing life on a working croft where you can do as much or as little as you like. The croft features a large 20 x 30 metres vegetable patch, a 50 ft poly tunnel and lots of raised beds. Fruit and Vegetables
We grow almos

t all our own fruit and vegetables and we are happy to pass on our experiences in grappling with self-sufficiency. Each successive year sees the production of good crops of vegetables and plenty of soft fruit in the summer/autumn, all of which we are available to purchase for our guests. We use an incubator for hatching batches of chicks - it never ceases to amaze us (and visitors) how a helpless, damp hatchling transforms in a few hours to a fluffy, scampering, independent and very vocal chick. Life changes
Some of our guests enjoy our real eggs or freshly picked salad leaves so much they can no longer put up with shop bought. WILDLIFE
Birds
The croft, though small, has a wide range of habitats that attracts plenty of wildlife, particularly birds. So far we have seen house martins, wrens, robins, swallows, great, coal and blue t**s, sparrows, starlings, sedge warblers, blackbird, pied wagtail and yellowhammers nesting on the croft. Black grouse regularly fly over, buzzards are common and both golden and white-tailed eagle are seen. Rarer visitors have included waxwing and blackcap. We have also seen a whinchat on the nuts, which although not rare is an unusual sighting. Siskins, on the other hand, are always about unless the peanuts run out or the sparrow hawk is on patrol. And just how many siskins can you get on one feeder? Flowers
If you are interested in wild flowers we suggest you visit in June. There have been over a thousand (yes!) orchids on the top half of the croft, mostly of the varieties shown here, which range in colour from very pale pink through to very dark purple and the more unusual Lesser Butterfly Orchid.

10/09/2024

Just saying good afternoon to our lovely neighbours on the Croft

08/09/2024

What a beauty!

04/09/2024

Autumnal feeling this morning 🍁🍂

02/09/2024

01/09/2024

Lovely afternoon at Fascdale beach 😊

31/08/2024

Good morning! It’s going to be a beautiful day 😊

28/08/2024

Typical peninsula traffic jam today!

11/08/2024

Saw these beautiful fawns on way home from Polloch today 🦌🦌🦌

11/08/2024

Summer days 😊

06/08/2024

Pumpkin and patch living the life! Happy Tuesday 😊

31/07/2024

Aww happy days 😊

15/07/2024

We’ve been a little busy on our Croft with pruning back a few trees, but that hasn’t stopped us enjoying the beautiful weather 😊

05/07/2024

18/06/2024

Well, it’s not every day someone gets married on your Croft! We fall in love with our Croft a little bit more each day.
Tim and Lacey, we were honoured that you wanted to have your special day here 😊
We wish you well for the future and hope you made lots of memories to cherish.

15/06/2024

**EDIT**
For those of you thinking “it’s only a goose, why bother?”…
This goose took on a fox that was stalking our lambs. He is a hero goose!
He/she (we really are bad at figuring these things out) is amazing!

This little fellow was attacked by a fox about 3 weeks ago!
He was badly damaged, but with lots of love, care and attention, little Jellybean was able to be back with his mate for a few hours today!
He’s not quite fully healed but he is getting there 😊
Look at him shaking those wings for the first time in ages 😃

13/06/2024

4 new little arrivals! Just hatched yesterday 😊

11/06/2024

Not a bad day for an evening stroll 😊

03/06/2024

A perfect day for a paddle 😊

24/05/2024

We’ve had a guest have a wallet disappear somewhere between Acharacle store and the top of Sgur Dhomhnuill.
If anyone finds a wallet with cards in the name of Andrew Benson (plus driving license and some cash) please let us know!

23/05/2024

We are at Mingarry Park Luxury Accommodation and Restaurant what a superb evening with great friends. If you coming up to stay, this is definitely a special place to visit! Great food and we were made to feel very welcome 😊

19/05/2024

Such passion, we can’t wait to sample the delights!

10/05/2024

Aww thanks 😊😊

28/04/2024

Had a great time listening to these guys last night, a real treat 😊.

27/04/2024

It’s a cold start this morning! Look at that halo 😊

08/04/2024

Oh….its such a hard life being a pup 😊
Lovely walk by the Loch this morning.

07/04/2024

Sorry for the terrible photo but we have number 3! Born this morning and he is a bonnie lad! Name….. following the trend… “Fudge”!

05/04/2024

Meet Cocoa our newest lamb!

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Telephone

+441967402226

Website

http://www.bluebellcroft.com/

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