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Awards
This garden won
Silver
Elizabeth II Botanic Park – Cayman Islands in association with Newington Nurseries
The Heritage Garden – Grand Cayman
Designers: Andrew Guthrie, Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park
Contractor: Newington Nurseries
Sponsor: Cayman Islands Department of Tourism
The Heritage Garden, Grand Cayman is a floral display depicting life in old Caymanian times and replicates the original Heritage Garden, which is distinctive for its pretty white sand garden.
The garden features a typical Caymanian Catboat, which is strongly linked to the development of the islands. These small boats ventured offshore to hunt turtles, as well as being used as the Islands’ waterborne pickup trucks, coasting within yards of ironshore, reef and shoal beach.
Key plants in the garden include the silver thatch palm, which is the national tree of the Cayman Islands and provided early settlers with the craft of rope making and thatching. The garden also includes the national plant, the banana orchid.
Find out more about the Cayman Islands and their plants
Rare Cayman Islands orchids up for auctiuon
