Bermudians to grow more endemic plants.

Save Open Spaces have applied for planning permission to build a greenhouse nursery on National Trust land on Vesey Street, Devonshire.

Campaigners want to use the greenhouse, which could hold 1,000 one-gallon pots, to sell plants cheaply and encourage the growth of more Bermuda species.

The group is even aiming to use the greenhouse to start a reforesting programme and planting more on hillsides.

Spokesman Stuart Smith said: "We are in the process of establishing a new endemic nursery and we want to fill it with native plants.

"We are working with the National Trust on this project and they have provided us with a piece of land just west of the National Sports Club.

"Our aim is to sell the plants very cheaply so that people can be encouraged to grow more Bermudian species and plants which are endemic or native.

"We'll even be hoping to regrow some forests, plant on hillsides and all that sort of thing.'' He said the greenhouse would measure 17 by 48 feet.

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