Lying at the head of the shel-tered waters of Campbeltown loch the royal burgh of the same name was founded in 1607 and is in every sense of the word a Campbell town. The 7th Earl of Argyll was its benefactor as part of a ‘plantation’ policy to import Protestant settlers mainly from Ayrshire and Renfrewshire to bring peace to a turbulent area.

When Charles and Minette Struthers inherited Ardmaddy Castle in Argyll from his parents the advice to Minette concerning the 1½ acre walled garden that lay below the castle was unanimous.