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Tobermory is the main settlement on the Isle of Mull, a colourful fishing and ferry port on a sheltered bay at the north of the island. The multi-coloured harbour-front buildings are one of Scotland's most photographed scenes, and the town sits at the edge of Mull's extensive heather moorland and mixed woodland landscape. The Tobermory Distillery overlooks the bay. Mull's interior carries vast heather moorland — one of the finest in the western Highlands — as well as sycamore and mixed woodland in the sheltered glens such as Glen Forsa and Aros Park south of the town. White clover grows on the improved coastal grassland around Tobermory Bay.

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.