Fairburn House

Fairburn Estate has a wide variety of woodlands on both the low ground and the higher ground totalling some 1000 hectares, of which some 360 hectares are commercial conifer plantations. On the lower ground we have mainly native species (alder, willow, birch, rowan and oak) growing on the banks of the River Conon and River Orrin. We also have mature woods on the low ground with elm, oak, beech and sycamore, many of which are over 200 years old. We have commercial conifer plantations, which are harvested every 30 to 70 years and then replanted. We have one of the larger collections of trees in Scotland in our Pinetum and Arboretum, which are located on the North Bank of the River Orrin. Many of the trees are named. We have just started a programme to remove all rhododendron (ponticum) from Fairburn, although we intend to keep the hybrids as they are of no threat to the environment and are magnificent in bloom.