Fairly easy walk from the cruise port. Free to enter but more like a large park than a true botanical garden. Supposedly you can view the local parrots in captivity but we weren't lucky enough to do that. Nice place to stroll around and chill but not somewhere I'd particularly recommend as to go out of your way.

Once known as one of the finest botanical gardens in the region, the Dominica Botanic Gardens was severely damaged by Hurricane David in 1979. Following restoration efforts, it remains a focus of local cultural life, and a center of conservation research on Dominica. One impressive reminder of that hurricane is the huge African Baobab tree that was toppled onto a bus (our guide told us that the bus had been a gift from an organization in Canada). The remnants of the tree’s original stem (over the crushed bus) is now 34 ft long and measures 17.7 ft in girth at about 12.5 ft from the original root-base. The larger of the two stems which grew up vertically from buds on the original stem after ‘David’ now measures 22.8 ft girth. With a diameter of over 150ft, the crown of the Banyon tree is the largest among the trees at the Gardens and is much wider than the height of the tree. We quite enjoyed this botanical garden. It is the nicest one that we have visited in the Caribbean. However, it cannot compare to botanical gardens that we have visited elsewhere.

We got here by taking a small bus outside the port for a tour of the highlights of Roseau. Price seemed ok for quite a long tour or the area and we jumped in. The first stop was at the botanical garden which is near the top of the hill. It looked more like a park than a botanical garden. We got some explanation of the plants but nothing else as it was an open space to wander around. Nearby there is a school bus that was crushed by a tree during a hurricane storm in the 70's.