A spring stroll through the Cruickshank Botanic Gardens

Today I took a stroll through the beautiful Cruickshank Botanic Gardens in Aberdeen. The gardens are free to visit and open every day in the summer from 9am until 7pm. More information about the gardens including an interactive online map for those not lucky enough to be in Aberdeen can be found here.

If you visit the gardens during the week you might catch a glimpse of some of the researchers working in the greenhouses. There's lots of active research in soil and food sciences at the university going on and you can read some more about it here.

There's a cafe sci on soil science later in the year too!

And just to prove that the gardens are in Aberdeen because you might not believe me....

There are benches in the garden where you can sit and have some lunch so they are perfect for a picnic on a sunny day!