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There is very little to get excited about in the garden during the month of November except for the fact that maintenance is a continuing exercise. If we are to keep the ambience of the garden ticking over, we must continue to give everything our att...

Giving of your best for long periods is hard going — especially when you are left to fend for yourself — but that is essentially what we ask from our garden. Mother Nature portrays herself in many guises — from hot, dry scorching days to raging hurr...

September, though still hot and humid and open to hurricane activity, will start to show signs of a slowing of growth and flowering. This makes it a good time to assess what attention should be given to the garden. Activity will have been significant...

A weed is a plant that is considered undesirable, or simply a plant that is in the wrong place. The adage one year’s seeding equals seven years’ weeding, has a great ring of the truth; simply observing growth these last several months leads me to thi...

Bermuda, with a landmass of 21 square miles and a population of around 63,000 can, in most areas, hold its head high. Covid has been damaging to the economy and Bermudians have suffered in numerous ways. Thankfully, we are surrounded by the ocean, an...

Windows create a picture frame of the garden from wherever viewed from the house. There is a great propensity in Bermuda to plant around the walls of the house – this may or may not look attractive when driving in, contingent on the design format. Go...

Furnishing a room needs attention to detail – too much, the room becomes cluttered and excess furniture is removed. The garden is often referred to as an extension to the house, an outside room and so it may be. However, that is where the similarity ...

The exercise of landscape maintenance is a must in more ways than one in that in simple terms it keeps the garden ‘in bounds’. The questions that arise from this concept are to what extent, at what cost and what the aesthetic value of the finished pr...

Design is a major factor in controlling landscape maintenance costs, which is key when one considers the longevity of a garden. The design process covers all aspects of the implementation and, in essence, considers the site in its totality and not in...

Growing up in a city in the UK was a lot different than living in Bermuda. I lived in a terraced house with no back garden, just a backyard. The front ‘garden’ consisted of a hedge three feet from the house as a privacy factor between the house and s...