caterpillars/butterflies
Caterpillars represent the immature (larval stage) in the life cycle of moths and butterflies. Of course, butterflies are very desirable beneficial insects and we don’t want to kill butterfly caterpillars.
Moth caterpillars are introduced to your garden when a moth lays eggs on your plant leaves. You may see these eggs on the undersides of the leaves of your plants.
Some moths lay single eggs, and others lay clusters of eggs.
Naturally, each egg hatches to become a little caterpillar and the caterpillars set to work eating the food of their choice.
Selectively donate/share one plant with them and hand remove or spray with insecticidal soap the others.
our plant directory!
Our planting palette . featuring over three dozen trees is developing we invite you to come in and have a look!
Merry Christmas to all our gardening friends! with thanks from ABHS
Adenium, Desert Rose, a favourite, perfect plant loves, sun, little water and an annual fertilizer, flowers all year long.
Desert Rose ‘Adenium obesum’ shades of pink, white, red and yellow’ this tropical , hearty plant lends structure and beauty to your landscape, drought tolerant, poropogates easily from seed pods
Wild Medicinal Plants
We are pleased to report that we are expanding our Wild Garden, as we indentify with the help of members and friends we catologue our finds and encourage cultivation.
Mid summer heat and we are waiting for a little more showers please! but we are finding a few lovely areas in our Wild Medicinal garden,
Please take a look, at three very attractive plants we can consider planting these at our home gardens, once they are controlled as they can be prolific spreaders: Wild cattle tongue Plucea Odotata ‘‘for fever’, Vervain shrub ‘Stachytarpheta cayennensis’,Yellow Balsam ‘Croton Dryander’
we are propagating cuttings in our green house for sale at a nominal price.
Celebration at Agave Gardens Christmas 2015
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Here’s more results from our wonderful show, winner of the best booth, Mrs. Pat Simon Forde
Lethal Yellow redress
Horticultural Society networks to address lethal yellowing
Re printed from the Observer Newspaper
St. John’s Antigua- A non-profit organisation which deals with the protection of the country’s flora and fauna is coming to the aid of the government as it seeks to rid the country of the lethal yellowing disease.
President of the Antigua & Barbuda Horticultural Society Barbara Japal said her organisation is looking at instituting a number of programmes to help create a greater level of awareness.
The group is in the process of connecting with regional bodies to complement the work of the government.
Japal said the Society would be seeking to address the devastating disease by collaborating with other organisations across the region also affected by the virus.
“We have dialogued with horticulture societies in our neighbouring islands – Barbados, St Kitts and Nevis to share their experiences on a weekly basis just to keep us up to date with what’s going on,” Japal said.
She said the Society will also be producing information materials to be made available on its website.
Japal continued that, during the last four decades, outbreaks of lethal yellowing disease have killed most of the once prevalent taller coconut cultivars in parts of Florida and some Caribbean islands.
The president added that while coconuts are the most economically important palms affected by the disease, 35 other palm species are also susceptible to lethal yellowing.
The government, over the past few months, has been moving speedily to tackle lethal yellowing which has the potential to wipe out the country’s coconut industry.
Lethal yellowing results in the premature shedding of fruits and causes the leaf to become yellow, resulting in the plant dying within three to six months of the disease appearing.
The Plant Protection Unit, headed by Dr Janil Gore-Francis, has been tasked with rolling out a management plan to control the disease.