Andromeda Gardens

Andromeda Gardens

Andromeda Gardens is a six acre horticultural park and attractive tourist attraction in the village of Bathsheba, Saint Joseph in Barbados. It is a beautiful scenic park with strikingly attractive flowering plants and tropical trees and along with Flower Forest it is one of the most alluring parks on the island. Named from the Greek mythological figure of Andromeda it started as a private plant collection around the home of Iris Bannochie, a leading expert on horticulture on the island. [ [http://andromeda.cavehill.uwi.edu/ Andromeda Homepage ] ]

Andromeda was first open to the public during a fund raising event hosted by the Barbados Horticultural Society in the 1970s. Andromeda was well received, and has remained open to the public by paid admission since then. Andromeda currentlyclarifyme boast over six hundred different species of plants adapted to a range of tropical environments. In 1990, the garden had 40,000 visitors.Citation | last = Deitz | first = Paula | title = A Rare Garden in Barbados | newspaper = The New York Times | year = 1991 | date = 1991-02-17 | url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE4DF133CF934A25751C0A967958260&scp=1&sq=A+Rare+garden+in+barbados&st=nyt]

The Andromeda Botanic Garden is currently owned by the Barbados National Trust although currentlyclarifyme leased to Perseus Inc. The University of the West Indies (UWI), has responsibility for Research and Educational activities at Andromeda. The University's activities are funded by the Peter Moores Foundation (UK).

The Andromeda Botanic Gardens Educational Program is run in co-ordination with the Department of Biological & Chemical Sciences of the University of the West Indies.

Notable in the gardens is the large talipot palm tree, one of the largest palms in the world.

At the centre of the upper garden, near a grotto-like lily pond is a majestic native banyan. When Queen Ingrid of Denmark visited the garden in 1971, she was served refreshments in a recently built gazebo overlooking the sea. There is a library, classroom, cafeteria and gift shop. In 1991, the palm garden contained over 60 different species of palm.

Bannochie founded the garden in 1954 on land owned by her family since 1740.

ee also

*Flower Forest, another garden in Barbados
*St Vincent Botanical Gardens
*San Juan Botanical Garden

References

External links

* [http://andromeda.cavehill.uwi.edu/ Andromeda Botanic Gardens home page]


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