We'd arranged to meet up with some friends who were on holiday from Cornwall for lunch in Inverness, which was the whole purpose of me coming up by train and the OH coming down from Orkney to meet me there really. We had a free morning so we decided to go to the Inverness Botanical Garden which we've been sort of saying we should go and see for years now, without ever getting around to it.
And it was lovely. Helped by the fact that it was warm and sunny - not blindingly, stiflingly hot and sunny like it has been these past few days, just pleasantly warm. The gardens aren't huge but they are obviously much loved and I took a shedload of photographs. Here's a selection.
That tree is really scary, isn't it?
Lunch was lovely, although we took no photos and in the afternoon we went off to a large garden centre with the idea of perhaps buying some furniture for the patio now that we have a weather tight byre to store it in over the winter. We'd seen some lovely garden furniture there last autumn. Alas, I think! They had restocked and nothing that we saw really sang to us. So we still have no patio table and chairs but it did save us the money, which is a good thing I suppose.
The gardens look wonderful!
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