Inverness Botanic Gardens and Café

Grow Project

Three people wearing green gardening jackets and sun hats proudly hold up freshly harvested root vegetables in an outdoor garden area. They stand and kneel among raised beds, with green hoops, mulch, and plants visible around them. A sports field and tall metal fencing are in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

Over a half of the Garden area is lovingly looked after by the Grow Project, an opportunity for practical horticulture for adults with additional support needs.

The Grow Project is a vocational gardening project, with a beautiful, productive and wildlife-friendly garden open to the public, created and maintained mainly by adults with additional support needs. Offering sessions of gardening activities all year round, rain or shine, the Grow Project aims to build personal confidence, physical health, independence and wellbeing amongst participants. The project promotes horticultural happiness and social inclusion, aided by an amazing team of community volunteers.

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The GROW Project in Inverness Botanic Gardens

Depending on the season, you will find fruit trees, vegetable plots, wild flowers, bulbs, herb beds, a bug hotel to encourage insect life, and much much more. For children the wooden bears at the tee pee and Jungle Path are looking forward to welcoming you - Grow is open to the public so pop along and visit all it has to offer!

The Grow Project often have produce, available for donation, by the Café entrance - from herbs to lavender, veg to fresh cut flowers, we have you covered!

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Grow Project

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A proud gardener peaking through the branches of a peach tree.
A horticultural trainer inside a polytunnel inspecting the climbing frame above a large rasied bed with vegetables planted.
2 gardeners standing beside their re-stocked plant sale display featuring pots and hanging baskets.