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ARM Landscaping Services only has three crew members, and more often than not, it’s the owner, Andrew Medeiros manning the lawnmower. But size did not stop the Brighton Hill, Devonshire firm from winning The BERMUDIAN magazine’s Best of Bermuda award...

When next walking along the road, the railway trail, or a field in Hamilton, St George’s or Dockyard, take in the view around you. Look carefully for whatever makes an impact, be it visually aesthetic or ‘wanting care and attention’. You may well be ...

It's that month again … Yes, it’s December – which presents the challenge of presents to come; hopefully they are useful and functional! If you dig Christmas there is, fortunately, very little to do in the garden. You could, however, consider Mother ...

In 2011 the government issued a clear message after shots were fired at a Parks Department staff member as he worked: for change to happen everyone had to get involved. Especially concerned as the target was one of their own, Roger Parris and Sam San...

A new community garden, set in woodland at the top of Corkscrew Hill in Devonshire, was opened yesterday. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, said more gardens were on the way, with sites under review in the East End. The go...

October typically shows a decline in hot humid weather which translates to continued growth with less stress on grass and plants. When that does happen, root growth rebounds resulting in new flushes of growth which produce a fresh flush of flower. Th...

Teenager Zayne Sinclair has a lot on his plate. The 17-year-old is a full-time student at The Berkeley Institute, has a part-time job, and this summer, started his own gardening business, Sinclair’s Seed Sowing. For a small fee, he will come to you...

How much do we value our privacy from the outside looking in? For centuries hedges have been used to divide individual properties, to separate field crops and to define the line between public and private land. In more recent years they’ve been used...

Floral “red umbrellas” that pop up across the island in summer have failed to come out in substantial numbers this year. Horticulturalists said that a lack of rainfall or damage caused by Hurricane Humberto last year could be the root cause of why po...

So, it’s hot, it’s humid, it’s time to relax. With hurricane season upon us, now is also a good time to do a walk around the garden and make an assessment as to what needs to be done before any storms. Heavy growth weighs down branches, and is there...

Summer means heat. When combined with rain heat creates growth, which leads to problems — especially with insects and fungus. Insects, and there are many of them, love to munch on new, soft growth and denude a leaf to a skeleton very quickly. The mai...

Juno was the goddess of marriage, pregnancy, and childbirth, which makes me wonder how she managed to tend her garden in June, a very floriferous month. Obviously, that is why a majority of garden maintenance is now done by males! With lockdown in pl...