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How to Attract Butterflies to your Garden
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How to Attract Butterflies to your Garden

Bermuda has a variety of butterflies native to our island; here’s how you can attract them at all stages of their life cycle to your garden!   1. Bermuda Buckeye - Plantain With their delicate wings that seem like wings of art, there is no doubt that butterflies are some of the most beautiful insects. However, many of them prefer to feed on weeds! The Bermuda Buckeye caterpillar eats plantain exclusively. You likely already have this plant in your garden,…

March 21, 2023

Field Notes: The Bougainvillea
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Field Notes: The Bougainvillea

The Bougainvillea is regarded as the finest of the flowering climbing plants of the warm regions of the world. Many writers have referred to the magnificent colours and the amazing growth provided by this plant. These descriptions, although they may…

March 14, 2023

Photography by: Meredith Andrews

What to Pick and Plant this March
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What to Pick and Plant this March

We know spring in Bermuda has arrived because wild freesias (refracta-alba) are everywhere, their funnel-shaped flowers, streaked with the faint flush of pink, gold and mauve, just asking to be picked. And certainly gathering them to bring small posies of…

March 13, 2023

Written by: Elizabeth Jones

Field Notes: Garden Hibiscus
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Field Notes: Garden Hibiscus

This article was taken from our archives. It first appeared in The Bermudian in May 1952. It appears here exactly as it did originally. The Garden Hibiscus needs little introduction for it is found in practically every garden and is…

February 28, 2023

Written by: Gordon Groves

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5 Plants that Bees Love!

Bees are amongst the most important creatures to humans. These amazing insects pollinate over 80% of all flowering plants including 70 of the top 100 human food crops. In fact, one in three bites of food that we eat is…

February 24, 2023

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What to Pick and Plant this February

What to PickFor Bermudians, February means just one thing: loquats (eriobotrya japonica), loquats and more loquats. This is the month children disappear into the loquat trees eager for these yellow to orange rounded fruits whose taste ranging from sweet to…

February 21, 2023

Written by: Elizabeth Jones