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Kenmore is one of the oldest planned villages in Scotland, set at the eastern end of Loch Tay where the River Tay begins its long journey to the sea through Aberfeldy and Dunkeld. The Kenmore Hotel at the village centre dates to 1572 and holds the distinction of being Scotland's oldest inn; Robert Burns carved a poem on its chimney-piece. The Taymouth Castle estate grounds — enormous designed parkland of lime, oak, sycamore, sweet chestnut and horse chestnut — give exceptional bee forage from late May through July. The Tay's bankside willows and alder run east from the village toward Aberfeldy; the loch margin carries marsh marigold, meadowsweet and yellow flag iris in the reed-fringed bays. Ben Lawers and the surrounding Ben Lawers NNR moorland to the north hold alpine heather and bilberry; ling heather starts on the accessible lower slopes above Fearnan from late July.

The lower Strath Earn and Strath Tay are productive rape and raspberry country in May and early June — and Tayside raspberry honey is a distinctive and widely admired flow. Sycamore is heavy on estate parkland; lime lines Perth and Crieff streets. The defining late-summer flow is ling heather across the Perthshire glens — Glen Shee, Glen Lyon, Rannoch and Atholl — with long-established commercial apiaries migrating in. Bilberry, rowan and hill herbs supplement; ivy on stone villages finishes the year.