Mid-March is not the best time to be visiting a Scottish garden, but despite that, our visit to these Botanical Gardens was well worthwhile.
We tend to visit gardens wherever we are in the world and these Edinburgh gardens, just north of the New Town were extensive, very well maintained and contained a surprisingly wide selection of well established trees & plants. Of particular note are the significant Chinese gardens.
Like most of Edinburgh, the gardens have significant elevation changes which just adds to the visual depth of large area.
Like most major botanical garden admission is free and you could easily spend half a day here - even longer in late spring & summer.
And itâs on the blue route of the hop-on hop-off bus, with a stop right at the gates