Antigua Barbuda Horticultural Society, @Agave Gardens
The science of growing plants, learning garden esign and how plants affect our environment
Let’s start a garden here is list of easy start seeds for your to plant
Available at our seed bank Agave Gardens. stop by and pick some up, while supplies last
| Pumpkin. – 40 seeds | |
| Water Mellon. 40 seeds | |
| Butter Nut. 40 seeds | |
| Sunflower. 40 seeds | |
| Sorrel. 40 seeds | |
Antigua Barbuda Horticultural Society Gardens, Friars Hill Road.
AGAVE GARDENS 268 725 5507, P.O.Box W212, www.antiguahorticulture.com
ABHS Agave Seed Club for children
For Food Security
Dear Schools:
The Antigua Barbuda Horticultural Society Invite 10 children each month to the Agave gardens for the following program:
We will have a class room style program : Introduction to seeds:
In the event that your school is interested we are pleased to speak with your teachers to help with arranging the program, the day and time that would be suitable for your school.
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Pleased to offer Stephanotis seeds beautiful seeds attached to pretty white fluff, the fruit is shaped like an avocado then it bursts open and produce a rather large compliment of seeds.
Moonflower vine seeds (Ipomoea alba) pretty large white scented flower
pleased to update the seed bank we are ready to start collecting seeds
Mrs. Agnes Meeker member and OBE painted this wonderful Agave rendering on the wall of our new seed bank pavilion, we are pleased to host small gatherings, ask us about the terms and conditions
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.
Antigua Barbuda Horticultural Society 268 725 5507, www.antiguahorticulture.comAgave Gardens Friars Hill Road
Celebrate Gardening in Antigua Barbuda,
Flower and Garden Fair
Saturday November 29th from 11 am to 6 pm
Agave Gardens, Friars Hill Road.
Our theme this year Lets Pollinate! we invite you to sponsor our show with a donation to the show for our café, or flower competition prizes and advertise to your target market, with over 350 that attended our show last year.
Our Flower & Garden Show is big, exciting, entertaining, and full of opportunity! It’s the perfect place to participate and promote your products.
We are winners of a Silver -Gilt Medal at the RHS Chelsea 2025 Flower show.
Most Cordially,
Barbara Japal-
November 29th 2025
Silver -Gilt winner for our Glimpse into the past display missing Grant of Claremont farm display of Antigua Black Pineapple.
FOR THE ANTIGUA BARBUDA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
A FUND RAISER
COCKTAILS FOR THE RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW, London, England
PLEASE JOIN US !
and see our display “a glimpse into the past’
DATE: SATURDAY APRIL 5th, 2025
TIME: 4.00pm to 6: 30pm
AT: AGAVE GARDENS
CONTRIBUTION: $ 100.00
Tickets on sale from our members and at the
Agave Gardens, 268 725 5507 www.antiguahorticulture.com
Help our team as we showcase Antigua Barbuda for the first time on the world stage, we hope to get a Medal, we are going for the Gold.
