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Garden maintenance in the summer — survival or simply common sense

Summertime and the living is easy especially when someone else is doing the work which is often the case when it comes to the garden. Not having a rainy season in Bermuda is in reality a negative factor for the garden, for water is, especially at th...
Aug 04, 2014
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Gardener’s labour of love starts to bear fruit

A grandfather is enjoying the fruits of four years of hard work after finally managing to grow grapes in his yard. Green-fingered Raphael Barnett, 59, cultivated the crop at his home in Pembroke from a cutting. “I’m not sure of the variety — I got t...
Jul 02, 2014
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Garden Club scholarship deadline looms

If you hope to turn a green thumb into a career prospect, the deadline for the Bermuda Garden Club scholarship is on Monday. Although the scholarship might naturally make you think it is only dedicated to future gardeners, it is actually more broad i...
Jun 27, 2014
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Double Fantasy Garden is a medal winner at Chelsea Flower Show

A garden honouring the “Double Fantasy” flower that inspired John Lennon’s final album has been awarded a bronze medal at the Chelsea Flower Show in London. The Bermuda Double Fantasy Garden was created by floral artist and architect Nicky Gurret, in...
May 22, 2014
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A May day wedding without all the hassle

Imagine being invited to a wedding where you don’t have to dress up, buy an expensive gift, hire a babysitter, sit next the bore of the year, or nurse a hangover afterwards — and yet have a truly enjoyable day. Sound too good to be true? Not if you a...
May 08, 2014
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The cost of poor land management

Observation tells me the exercise of (good) land management is not what it could be and owners are paying the price in time, labour and aesthetics. As I drive around from site to site the visual impact of ‘weeds’ — plants growing in the wrong or und...
May 03, 2014
Opinion Writer

When less is more - the equity of growth

The idea of planting more than required will produce a quicker and heavier look is simply a good way of wasting ones money and increasing the future maintenance, often with a negative impact on growth. There is an old saying, ’large oaks from little ...
Apr 26, 2014
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Trees in the landscape

Trees play an important role in the landscape both aesthetically and functionally, trees are used for many reasons and in numerous places, big trees to screen and small trees to accentuate a particular location and a variety of reasons in between. Wh...
Apr 19, 2014
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Selection is the key to all round success

March has lived up to its reputation of being unpredictable with all four seasons appearing randomly throughout the month. Hopefully the garden is now up to par with weeds under control and ground ready for planting, the question now is simply what t...
Apr 11, 2014
Opinion Writer

Branch out from Winter into Spring

To say the least winter this year was a non-starter, a few windy days, some heavy rains and a little active growth, not a bad way to start the year. So where do we go from here? Though wind damage has to date been minimal we are not yet ‘out of the w...
Mar 01, 2014
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Fundraiser should be excellent

The Garden Club of Bermuda is renowned for the excellence of its various fund raisers, and this weekend’s plant, craft and bake sale in the Horticultural Hall of the Botanical Gardens will be no exception. Club members are well-known for their imagin...
Nov 29, 2013
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A look behind the walls of a Ghanian garden

A Bermudian living abroad has brought together all the tropical splendour of gardens in Ghana in a new coffee table book. The book is called A Look Behind the Walls and is currently available for order. It is co-written by Bermudian Karen Hendrickson...
Oct 24, 2013
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