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In September 2025 I was in St Vincent at the Botanical Garden to present at a symposium with staff from Kew Botanical Gardens who were...

There is an interesting article in Caribbean Beat about the Garden, related to Bligh and Breadfruit. Catch it here , or on the authors...

This is a post to say that the Guidebook project is now fully funded. The botanical illustrator is working away on the plants I have...

The two plants with the common name of Fingrigo and Fingrigs fascinate me. Anderson notes that both help with 'female obstructions'....

I have missed a week of posting; apologies but I have been tied up writing a book chapter on breadfruit plants using the plant-thinking...

This blog is a little late as I have been a little poorly. But it made me think more about plant cures that Anderson recorded. Below are...

I’m Elisabeth Handley-Garland, and as a part of my placement work for my Cultural Heritage and Resource Management masters degree at the...

in 1786 Alexander Anderson sent a letter to London talking about the botanical garden in St Vincent of which he had recently taken...

I love passionflowers, they are so beautiful and in September 2022 I found one in the area of Spring in St Vincent thats appears to be...

Last week I wrote about a couple of plants that Anderson described as 'beautifull' and a couple that had a particular smell. This week I...

This last week I presented at the Society for the History of Natural History summer meeting in Glasgow, Scotland. The image for the call...

Today is Father's Day in the UK. Back in Anderson's time, a celebration for father's did not exist. But Anderson was a father. Anderson...

In 1785 Alexander Anderson inherited a botanical garden that had 9 species of trees in it that he later classed as 'Valuable Wood', by...

Following on from last week's post where I noted that over time Alexander Anderson focussed on planting ornamental and exotic plants over...

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...