Your Questions About Gardening

GardenersCardiff answers:

When decorating your garden, use the ‘surprise’ principle. It’s really very easy, especially if you have paths that curve, and high perennials that can ‘hide’ the stuff around the curve. Get whatever ‘fun stuff’ you like, and if you have even just one ‘standard lot’ you’ll have room for at least 10 ‘decorative items.’ You can put one gnome or a group of gnomes either peeking out or ‘working unaware’ under the leaves. You can put a ‘reflection ball’ in a small pond or birdbath in a sunny place where it can sparkle and shine with the sun. You can use things you like, and set them where you want, because it’s your garden. I live in the Pacific Northwest, and at our Flower and Garden Show every year, the people who win the top ‘amateur garden’ prizes aren’t those who use stuff they find in books or on the web or a ‘formula’ from a book. They spend time in their gardens, they love their gardens, and they have a ‘natural feel’ for the decorative pieces they put into their gardens. Whether you want gnomes or stone animals and reptiles or glass balls or all three … It’s YOUR garden, and you should buy what you like and put it where you want to … I guarantee that it will look wonderful, not just to you but to those who can see in or take a walk in your garden.

GardenersCardiff answers:

The Botanical Gardens in Bermuda are located about a mile from Hamilton, accessable by taxi, scooter, or by the Number 1, 2 or 7 bus. The closest bus stop is at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital stop.

The Botanical Gardens are open 365 days a year, and are 362 of those days are free (the only exception is in April during the Agricultural Exhibition). The 36-acre gardens have a mix of collections, all quite beautiful. Were acquired from the Tucker family.

A new exhibit is the cactus house, which came on board in 2003.

The Gardens are open sunrise to sunset.

GardenersCardiff answers:

I started gardening to create shade on my home. I get blazing hot sun across the back of my house when the temps get into the triple digits and gardening has helped cut my AC bill.

Then I started gardening for privacy. I plant where I need to block my neighbor’s view.

Now it is noise control so I don’t hear my neighbor’s dogs barking incessantly all night and day. And, because friends and neighbors give me cuttings which I propagate in my memory garden. When my husband’s mother passed away, I inherited her roses, her orchids, her succulents and her cactus collection which I planted in a memory garden in her honor. So, that would be gardening in remembrance.