Island Life Magazine Ltd October/November 2013 | Page 60

GARDENING

Words by Tina Hughes

The changing face
of the Ventnor
Botanic Garden
The winds of change are blowing
through Ventnor’s Botanic Gardens
once again. Thankfully not with the
same catastrophic savagery as the
hurricane of October 1987, but in a
major and very visible way none the
less.
I’ve been visiting the gardens for
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many years and find what’s happening
now really exciting. Change and
growth are essential for an attraction
like this to ensure that visitors want
to keep coming back year after year,
and having spoken to the Curator
Chris Kidd and Kirsten Morris the
Marketing Executive about what