Great Public and Private Gardens of the Caribbean
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Frank Kershaw is an award winning horticulturist with more than forty years experience in the parks, horticulture and environmental fields. He currently teaches and lectures on a wide range of garden and landscape subjects at the community college and university level as well as the Toronto Botanical Garden. He is a frequent presenter at garden shows and his garden articles and photography have appeared in numerous books and publications. In 1997, Frank was the recipient of The Garden Club of Toronto's 'Award of Honour' for his outstanding contribution to horticulture. In the year 2000, he made a presentation to the Nations in Bloom Contest in Japan, wherein Toronto won first place for cities over one million population. He has visited and photographed over four thousand gardens around the globe and has lived in the Caribbean.
Kershaw's lecture will focus on the history, design and plant collections of many of the great public and private gardens in the Caribbean starting in the Bahamas and traveling south through the Leeward and Windward Islands to Tobago. Some of these gardens date back several hundred years, while others are of more recent origins. A number of the gardens had earlier roots as plantation gardens, experimental agriculture stations and others as inn and villa properties. All are interesting and examples of truly great landscapes.