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Duke of Edinburg Award SchemeA twelve week volunteer programme for high school students. They come on Saturdays for genreral gardening work, painting, collecting Native plants, tours and more. 2010/2011 Duke students 2011 Students: Collin Joseph Johanne Echelmann and...

Flora and FaunaBarbados forms part of the Lesser Antilles where there are about 2100 species of native, or naturalised plants. However, Barbados hosts only about 700 species of these native or naturalised plants, where only 2 are endemic to Barbados, a gully shrub,...

Conservation of Native Plants

The Native Plant Project Over-development of Barbados has put enormous pressure on the island’s flora and fauna. Natural habitats are disappearing, but Welchman Hall Gully provides a place of refuge for these endangered plants and animals. There are about 650...
Home of the Grapefruit

Home of the Grapefruit

Welchman Hall Gully is named after its first owner, a former soldier from Wales called General William Asygell Williams. A supporter of the monarchy during the English Civil War, he was banished by Cromwell after losing at the Battle of Bristol in 1650. He established...