Inverness Botanic Gardens and Café — Attraction in Ballifeary

We have just come to the end of a 5 day honeymoon in Inverness: We saw that there was a Botanical Garden, and thought to visit after we had been to the Eden Court cinema: we wandered along the Ness road to the Gardens, and were pleasantly surprised to find a friendly tearoom where we had lunch, before venturing into the Garden. Although we are in the middle of January, there was lots to look at, paths led us around twisty little corners of planting, birds, fish.... and the hothouse was a delight of exotic tropical and spectacular Cactus plants; epiphytes, carnivorous plants, amaryllis in full bloom... what a joy! I hop the Tearoom and the Gardens get the funding they so deserve! It was one of the many little gems of our 5 days in this City in...

I liked Inverness botanic gardens but when we visited there was a wedding in the tropical house so we couldn't see in there, I was gutted as that's the bit I was looking forward to most. We still had a nice time. My boyfriend and dad sat in the cafe (my dad has mobility issues and can't walk much) and my mum and I wandered round the gardens, the flowers were beautiful!! They had a wee quiz about bees for the kids, I did it aswell ( and I'm 44 😂), it was fun though and a good way to keep the wee ones interested. It was a wee trail you follow, you do a different thing on the sheet as you go round, answering questions and drawing pictures. There are toilets and a cafe here. It is accessible for wheelchairs. Plenty of...

The gardens were a joy. There was plenty seating and a wide variety of plants to see. The fish pond was a further attraction, and 2 of the fish are a fair size, dwarfing all the others. The whole garden area was accessible which was great. What let it down was first, the supposed accessible toilet is well undersized, there is no room for an easy wheelchair transfer. Second, we initially went to the car park for the Leasure centre and from the disabled spaces there was a longer walk than I would have liked, so we looked for the proper road going past the front door. We found we had to take a great detour round the back to get there. Overall though, we'll worth a visit, just try not to need the toilet if you...