Barbados Flora & Fauna

Both eggs have now hatched from the Wood Dove (also called a Ground Dove) that is nesting on the windowsill of our bathroom window - ...

We in Barbados know this plant as “Wild Geranium”. I don’t know the scientific name for it, and it probably goes by a lot of other names to...

It’s that time of year when all the birds are nesting in this part of the world. Yet again, we have a dove sitting on two eggs on the bathr...

Portalucca is a wonderful ground cover plant that grows like a weed. The one pictured here has white flowers, but pink is also very c...

When I was a child, everybody had at least one Petrea shrub in their garden, just like the magnificent specimen shown in the photos, an...

Panda ficus is not native to Barbados, but it has become very popular because of it’s hardy nature. As a member of the “ficus” group,...

Pusley (also known as Puslane or Purslane) grows like a weed all over Barbados, and most people treat it like a weed, ie pull it up. Howeve...