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Green-thumbed enthusiasts have been asked to volunteer their skills to help community gardens flourish. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the public works minister, said: “Government is fully committed to doing its part to boost the agriculture industr...

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 ...

As the property caretaker of Manor House, Warren Darrell has 13 acres to groom and 58 condominiums to oversee, but his hardest job is changing a single lightbulb. The lightbulb sits in the crown at the top of the ornate tower across from the develo...

The Garden Club brought a taste of spring to Hamilton this week as part of their latest “flower flash’. The display featured sunflowers, snapdragons and lilies at the corner of Reid and Burnaby Streets. A spokeswoman for the club, which uses a lily a...

When Betsey Mowbray moved to Bermuda in 1976 she was fascinated by morning glories. They reminded her of her mother back in Montreal, Quebec. Frances McKindsey would plant a morning glory vine in the spring and would “be so excited” when the first f...

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...

Sally Gibbons 1940-2021 An artist and teacher whose love of flowers beautified Holy Trinity Church in Hamilton Parish has died at 80. Sally Gibbons, widow of the former government minister Leonard Gibbons, was also head of the secondary departme...

The Birdcage is abloom with flowers and foliage in celebration of The Garden Club of Bermuda’s 100th anniversary. Nikki Gurret, a member of the club, created the installation on Front Street in the early hours of yesterday morning along with her dau...

The year’s first commemorative stamp series have been issued to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of The Garden Club of Bermuda. From a modest beginning in April 4, 1921, the club has grown into one of the island’s most lasting groups. The four stamps ...

Although Anna Fulton insists she “was never a natural athlete”, she never let it stop her from trying. It’s not uncommon to see her out on the water rowing with her husband Ian. In 2008 she climbed Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, despite having had a hip...

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...