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This past week the awards were made at the annual Royal Horticultural Show Chelsea Flower Show. There were exhibits from several...

On 18th May 2023, the official launch of the St Vincent Botanical Garden pop-up educational exhibition was launched in the cathedral in...

I am very pleased to note that thanks to so many very kind and generous people, the project has raised a little over £6,000, and we are...

Alexander Anderson wrote natural histories of several islands that he visited; one was Barbados. The manuscript, which is held by The...

Agostino Brunais (c.1730-2 April 1796) painted a number of illustrations of life in the colonial island of St Vincent. Two of these are...

Cocoa ( Theobroma Cacoa L.) has long been growing in the St Vincent Botanical Garden. In his co-called Hortus  (c.1806) Alexander...

Dr Jasmine Hazel Shadrack Dr Alexander Anderson’s Plant Catalogue really is a thing of beauty. Not only does it do an excellent job of...

This post relates to the dried and pressed specimens of plants that were sent to London by Anderson and are housed in the Herbarium of...

Enough money has been raised to start the Botanical Illustrations for the Guidebook, so a huge thanks to those who have donated. This...

I currently have a very nasty cold hence being late with this blog. So this blog is about some of the medicinal cures for coughs that...

This week the St Vincent Grenadines Government acquired the island of Balliceaux . The site is hugely important to the Garifuna of St...

The World Health Organisation say this of Yaws.' Yaws forms part of a group of chronic bacterial infections commonly known as the endemic...

In transcribing the manuscripts written by Alexander Anderson (d.1811), notably two extended plant catalogues, the importance of local...

The Guidebook will contain information that has never been transcribed and published before. The transcription process is still ongoing...

Huge thanks to those who have donated some money; we have made a start with £230 so far from 5 individuals - I can't thank you enough....

You may have noticed that on every page of the website and on the JustGiving page there is a passionflower drawing that has been written...

Image: the St Vincent and Grenadines Botanical Garden taken by Welch, 2023 In 2020 I was in St Vincent and the Grenadines with a...