Send flowers to Stornoway, Isle Of Lewis

Next day flower delivery to Stornoway

Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis is the administrative centre of the Outer Hebrides and the largest town in the Western Isles. The town has a population of 9,000 with another 3,000 people living in surrounding villages.

Originally built as a Viking settlement, it has a famous sheltered harbour, called "steering bay" in Old Norse, from which the name Stornoway derives.

The Western Isles are surrounded by a grassy, low lying plain called the machair. This area used to be a beach, but as land in the Western Isles and the northwest Scotland rose after the last ice sheets melted about 10,000 years ago, the machair was carried up and today, stands higher than the present beaches. The machair has a sandy soil, 90% of which is made up of old sea shells. The lime neutralises acidic water coming in from the peat bogs inland and creates a rich habitat for wildflowers.

There are rare flowers such as many varieties of orchid, including Irish lady's tresses: a genus of orchid and yellow rattle. Each bay and meadow has its own machair with different displays of buttercups, daises, harebells and clovers as well orchids, heathers, cotton grass, iris, primrose and bog pimpernel. Walk around the machair during the late spring and use the colours as an inspiration when you arrange a next day flower delivery to Stornoway.

Music and laughter in Stornoway

There's music in the summertime. Stornoway is one of the Western Isles venues for the annual Hebridean Celtic Festival that takes place in July. The festival attracts international artists and Gaelic talent. It includes street performances and music workshops for an estimated 15,000 summer visitors.

The Gaelic Associations' Royal National Mod has been held in Stornoway twice over the past 10 years. This is a Gaelic, music, song and arts festival that compares with the Eisteddfod in Wales.