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10 Tips to Bring Your Garden Back to its Former Glory
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10 Tips to Bring Your Garden Back to its Former Glory

With slightly cooler temperatures ahead, it’s time to get back out in the garden to do some planning and tidying up. October usually remains fairly dry, so keep your hose and sprinkler close at hand since fall plantings need one inch of water a week for optimum growth and performance. Here are a few helpful pointers to get your garden blooming again   1. Remove all tired or spent summer annual flowers from flower beds and borders. Now is the…

October 10, 2022

In the Garden: Fall
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In the Garden: Fall

As is well known to Bermudians, summertime in Bermuda brings relentless heat that is particularly hard on gardens of all sorts. Lawns may easily brown under the scorching sun, and fruit trees and vegetable gardens yield little produce. As a…

September 26, 2022

Written by: Cassandra Ortega

In the Garden: Summer
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In the Garden: Summer

In our summer months, we appreciate our cacti and succulent plants for their resistance to drought and for their easy care. Here are some species that do well in Bermuda and can add interest to rock gardens in particular. Spanish…

July 25, 2022

Written by: Elizabeth Jones

Field Notes: The Passion Flower
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Field Notes: The Passion Flower

This article was taken from our archives. It first appeared in the March 1954 issue of The Bermudian. It appears here exactly as it did originally.  There are several species of the Passion Flower which thrive in Bermuda, such as…

June 28, 2022

Written by: Gordon R. Groves

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Summer in the Garden

In the summer, we humans may be less-active gardeners, especially during the hotter months of July and August. It’s then we particularly appreciate our flowering shady trees—royal poincianas, for example, ebony and golden shower trees—for refuge from the sun. The…

June 27, 2022

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Winter in the Garden

This last year, has certainly been an extraordinary year, but good has come out of it. For example, as horticulturists in Bermuda will tell you, interest in growing vegetables and fruits has soared. Perhaps lockdown and travel restrictions have meant…

February 7, 2022

Written by: Elizabeth Jones