Iris Bannochie

Infobox Person
name = Iris Bannochie


caption =
birth_date = 1914
birth_place = Grenada
death_date = 1988
death_place = Barbados
other_names =
known_for = Gardening
occupation = Horticulturist
nationality = Barbadian

Iris Bannochie (1914 - September 1988) was a Barbadian horticulturalist who was the leading expert on horticulture on the island of Barbados. With her second husband, John, she created and owned Andromeda Gardens, a scenic park with strikingly attractive flowering plants and tropical trees in the village of Bathsheba, Saint Joseph in Barbados. Bannochie founded the garden around 1954 on eight acres of land that had been in her family since 1740. [cite journal | last = Leach | first = John | title = Tourism For Survival | journal = Roots | volume = 1 | issue= 1 | date = April 2004 | url = http://www.bgci.org/education/article/0408/ | accessdate =2008-03-10] On Bannochie's death, Andromeda Gardens was left to the Barbados National Trust.

Bannochie was born in Grenada in 1914 and, apart from her early childhood, lived all her life in Barbados. She married John Mackie Bannochie on 1964-04-13. She was a founding member of the Barbados National Trust. In 1977, she was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society for her contribution to tropical horticulture. [cite book | last = Bannochie | first = Iris | coauthors = Marilyn Light | title = Gardening in the Caribbean | publisher = Macmillian | date = 1993 | isbn = 0333565738] Bannochie suffered a stroke in the summer of 1988 and died shortly afterwards. [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] She was 73 years old.

A heliconia cultivar is named after Bannochie - Heliconia stricta 'Iris Bannochie'. [cite web| title = Heliconia Photos | date = 2004-04-29 | url = http://andromeda.cavehill.uwi.edu/heliconia_photos.htm | accessdate =2008-03-10 ]

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* [http://andromeda.cavehill.uwi.edu/Heliconia%20photos/heliconia%20Iris%20B%206inch.jpgPhotograph of Heliconia stricta 'Iris Bannochie']