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.
www.antiguahorticulture.com
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.
Our beloved bougainvillea, what would a caribbean garden be without one or two of these beauties.
Bougainvillea (pronounced /ˌbuːɡɨnˈvɪliə/)[2] is a genus of Flowering Plants native to South America . Different authors accept between four and 18 species in the genus. The plant was classified by Europeans in Brazil in 1768, by Philibert Commerçon, a French botanist accompanying French Navy Admiral and explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville during his voyage of circumnavigation.
In the landscape, it makes an excellent hot season plant, and its drought tolerance makes bougainvillea ideal for warm climates year-round. Bougainvillea has a high salt tolerance, which makes it a natural choice for color on coastal regions. As a woody clambering vine, bougainvillea will stand alone and can be pruned into a standard, but it is perfect along fence lines, on walls, in containers and hanging baskets, and as a hedge or an accent plant. Its long arching branches are thorny, and bear heart-shaped leaves and masses of papery bracts in white, pink, orange, purple, and burgundy. Many cultivars, including double flowered and variegated ones are now readily available. These plants are relatively pest free.
Tour the gardens, Monday/Wednesday and Fridays
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!
Friday May 3rd, 2024 – Agave Gardens 5.00pm
Please join us and become a member
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 antiguahorticulture@gmail.com
FLOWER AND GARDEN SHOW MARCH 23H 2024
EVENTS
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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June 22, 2011
