Container garden, Cromarty, Black Isle

lovely shot, containtastic

Yes - great, aren't they, Stevie! Unfortunately, I'd have needed a very wide-angle lens to get a different view. Walking along there was good, though.

What an amazing sight!

looks really lovely, never been there, nice to see this, thank you

Thank you! We holiday regularly in Cromarty, meeting up there with the kids. It's a lovely place, and there are some beautiful little gardens there.

I have been to inverness but never the black isle, looks fascinating
im off to the isle of Harris next month

Ooh - lovely! I've never been to the islands apart from a day trip to Skye from Cromarty.

i did go on a day trip to skye from mallaig a couple of years ago or was that only last year?? all those islands are magical.

How much beauty add flowers to one narrown street, don´t they? Very nice :)

Glad you like it, Katarina. A couple of the gardens in Cromarty are very striking - they are old fishermen's cottages, not much land at all so the gardens show a lot of ingenuity!

Tell me something about Cromarty, please. Do you live there or is it a weekend destination?

Cromarty is a fishing village east of Inverness, in northern Scotland. I wish it was a weekend destination! It is one of my most favourite places. It takes us about 7 hours to drive there. We have a summer holiday there, renting a house, about every two years. It is an 18th century village, very unspoilt, which is now home to quite a thriving artist population. The fishing industry is no more, sadly. Have a look at it on Google Streetview - I think it is very picturesque. There is a colony of dolphins living in the Cromarty Firth, and it is quite usual to see them if you take a boat trip, or if you go to Rosemarkie, just south of Cromarty, you can see them regularly from the beach.

Thank you for information :) I heard, that Scotland is a very place to visit. Did not know that you have dolphns there, I thought they live in warmer seas.

The Cromarty dolphins are the most northerly in the world. They are larger than most, because of the lower sea temperature (more body fat). We love Scotland, and visit regularly (our daughter and husband live in Glasgow)

That looks gorgeous...

Doesn't it just - must be quite a lot of work!

LOVELY!

Yes - and we've decided to return yet again next year (we go about every two years). The family decided we couldn't miss our get-together. So now I have 15 months of looking forward!!!

Thank you, Homebird. One of my all-time favourite places!

would so love to live somewhere like this .....it is so pretty

It is a very pretty place. It has some lovely houses and there's good walking in the area.