Just a stone’s throw from the wildflower meadow you’ll find a landscaped loch where a fairytale tower meets with clear waters. A pavilion sits at the water’s edge, with parking nearby, making an ideal picnic venue.
This serene parkland space changes with the seasons, with abundant colour from specimen trees and shrubs, rhododendrons, and wild flowers. Here you can potter along mown paths and read your book on a bench overlooking the landscaped pond. You may even love it as much as the roe deer do.
Orroland is a working farm, with most of the fields rented to a neighbouring dairy farmer. A few times during the summer they cut silage and spread manure, and you will see and hear machinery and tractors on the local roads and in the fields near the cottages, with the associated smells. No heavy farm machinery is allowed on Orroland’s private road.
In winter, we typically have sheep in the fields.
Over many generations, livestock farming has been responsible for the pastoral landscape in Dumfries and Galloway. Periodically, you may need to be patient when you see, hear or smell the results of their cyclical work.
Foraging feast
Foraging at Orroland would add something really extra-special and unique to your stay and we highly recommend a guided forage as part of your holiday. We asked Mark to help us enthuse you about the wild foods in Orroland’s natural store. Orroland offers an amazing range of tasty plants and fungi to both novice and improving foragers alike. Its wide diversity of habitats means there is lots to enjoy all year round. Being on the coast, the woods, hedgerows and meadows of Orroland enjoy the warming effects of the sea, allowing for more variety, longer seasons and bumper crops.
LOOK OUT FOR
- Wild garlic
- Sea kale
- Hairy bittercress
- Sea arrowgrass
- Wood sorrel
- Sea arrowgrass
- Elderberries