Deborah's Garden

Gardens That Inspired Me
Two places I visited last year while we were bulding our home and planning our garden were the Sunken Gardens in St. Petersburg, FL (above, left), and Queen Elizabeth Botanic Gardens in the Cayman Islands (above, right). The gardens in Cayman had received extensive damage from Hurrican Ivan in 2004, but much of it has recovered quite nicely. It's a bit of a challenge growing a tropical garden when you are outside the tropics, but you learn what works, what fails, and what needs to covered when they predict a frost.