Calling all Schools

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

Schools Little Seed Club, ABHS Agave Gardens

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:

  • Introduction to seeds, their anatomy, seed collection methods.
  • To volunteer by helping to collect, sort, dry and package seeds
  • Introduction to- in garden plants
  • Create little green houses for germination e.g. egg cartons then transplant seedlings to the garden.
  • Each student will be given seeds
  • Teach the value and appreciate nature
  • Encourage seed saving at home by providing containers and instruction on how to collect 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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new seeds

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.

Logwood Trees Haematoxylum campechianum

seed bank complete

pleased to update the seed bank we are ready to start collecting seeds

seed bank

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

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’Croton_flavens blue-vervain

we are propagating  cuttings in our green house for sale at a nominal price.Wild cattle tongue

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flower arranging classes are relaxing, beautiful and fun

Flower arranging class details BEGINNERS
Floral Design Enrollment Agreement
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Course: BEGINNERS BASIC FLORAL DESIGN 1st series of Flower Arranging Classes::
6 Classes – Every Tuesday
Dates– November 19 .26 December 3.10, January 7.14
COURSE INFORMATION:
Location Agave Gardens, Friars Hill Road
Cost: $30 per class
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Facilitators: Mrs. Grace Spencer King – 723-8169-
Ms. Jackie Ferracho Williams- 464-8186. See page 2
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Requirements: please bring your floral tools
-class member is responsible for supplying their containers, foam and flowers
*suggested container for Class 1 eg cube or small bowl
*suggested container for Class 2
a round clear glass vase
*suggested container for Class 3
cylinder vase(grid)
*wire wreath form for Holiday Door design
*large container suggested for Tropical design Class 5
*selection of fresh flowers and greenery suggested for Class 6 Hand tied Bouquet + vase to take it home.

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Reopening 2024

We will reopen on Wednesday 14, August 2024, please stop by and see our new plants, seeds, and new items in our garden shop, get yourself a pair of garden sleeves.

Our Seed bank is offering an updated collection of peppers, hot, sweet and tasty.

Monday/Wednesday and Friday 10.30 am to 2.30 pm 268 725 5507

Come and sit and enjoy our garden!

Live floral arranging competition

Antigua Barbuda Horticultural Society, c/o Agave Gardens, Friars Hill Road, P.O Box W212,St. John’s Antigua  268 725 5507

www.antiguahorticulture.com  [email protected]

FLOWER AND GARDEN SHOW MARCH 23H 2024

EVENTS

  1. ANTIGUA BARBUDA’S FLORAL ARRANGING FACLITATOR MRS. THERESA GREGORY

WILL HOLD A FIRST OF ITS KIND LIVE FLORAL COMPETIITON.

YOU ARE INVITED TO TAKE THE CHALLENGE,

SEE THE MASTERS AT WORK, EACH WILL BE GIVEN THE MATERIAL AND THE CRITERIA ‘TO CREATE THEIR MASTERPIECE AND YOU GET TO WATCH THEM AS THEY WORK AND CREATE, THEN WIN ‘THE BEST IN SHOW’

GREAT FUN AND ENTERTAINING DON’T MISS IT.

Entrance is EC$ 20

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