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Summer means heat. When combined with rain heat creates growth, which leads to problems — especially with insects and fungus. Insects, and there are many of them, love to munch on new, soft growth and denude a leaf to a skeleton very quickly. The mai...

Juno was the goddess of marriage, pregnancy, and childbirth, which makes me wonder how she managed to tend her garden in June, a very floriferous month. Obviously, that is why a majority of garden maintenance is now done by males! With lockdown in pl...

With temperatures on the rise, lawn grasses, as well as lawn weeds, should be very active. During the cooler months, winter weeds have been seen in abundance and will take time to become dormant if they are not killed off. So, with summer weeds emerg...

As we enter another week of sheltering in place, my heart goes out to everyone on this island who is suffering. Whether you are suffering the loss of employment, the camaraderie of friends, the visits of relatives, the gloom of isolation or the strug...

The garden, a place of peace and quiet; a place of refuge in times of stress and uncertainty; a sanctuary to ponder, rethink, dwell on issues in a quiet understanding way. It’s been that way through history, but particularly now when we are all passi...

Your garden, or is it? Simply put, is it really what you want or enjoy looking at? If not, why? Perhaps you have not thought about it more than being just a green space. How often do you think about your garden? Have you ever really, honestly given i...

Horticulture has always been “green” but today, “green” is a driving force in the marketplace where people with environmental concerns are blossoming in numbers. Consider the not-so-new idea of staying healthy by growing your own fruit and vegetable...

Designing a garden is, to many, an interesting exercise in creating a mix of plant types that hopefully will turn out to be an attractive area which appends the home. The main components of a garden are shrubs, palms and trees with a smattering of h...

So, it’s the same old question: “What to buy a gardener for Christmas?” You now have a short period of time to make that decision. December invariably lends itself to everything else bar working in the garden — except for a quick clean-up in areas f...

A doctor has taken on chronic diseases — at the root. Stanley James, of Premier Health and Wellness Centre, is dosing his neediest patients with free vegetables grown in a garden at his surgery. Dr James said: “I am excited. It means I can give some...

How often do you walk around your garden and check plants for pests, disease or broken branches? It’s a necessary exercise in order to ensure a garden has healthy plants and soil. Autumn’s shorter days and fading blossoms are a sure sign the growin...

The Garden Club of Bermuda is to hold an open house and gardens at a historic Devonshire estate this weekend. The fundraiser at Palm Grove, owned by the Gibbons family, will support the skills development programme run by the Department of Parks. C...