The Editor of Water Gardener Magazine.com is called out to the Caribbean to advise on a huge water garden project.

The organisers of a huge project featuring water gardens galore on the island of St Vincent in the Caribbean has called upon the services of Peter May, garden designer, author, water-landscaper and editor of this magazine. OnThe latest site plan and as you can see there is lots of water. Saturday 24th November Peter will be flying out there to assess the requirements for a large number of water gardens that will be dotted about a prestigious holiday complex that is being built in Buccament Bay.

A typical holiday home or cabana.
St Vincent is the location for many of the scenes in "Pirates of the Caribbean" and the bay next along from where many of those scenes were shot is the site of a new pretigious holiday resort that has been is sensitively designed to blend in with the beautiful landscape. If you want to get an idea od what may be involved, take a trip to Buccament Bay and check out the site plan and the artist's renditions of what is supposedly in store for holidaymakers, or look on the Harlequin Property website to check out the location.

This is a story that is hopefully going to run and run as the project develops and Peter says that there should a mass of material from this adventure to show readers how to build water gardens BIGTIME. He also says that part of the excitment is that he doesn't know what the challenges really are until he gets there. One of them will undoubtedly be the weather, but rather the exrttremes from one season to another, the sun and the heat are going to make water gardens become swampy lagoons in no time unless there is a plenty of oxygenation and a good balance of plants. Resorting to technology will also probably be imperative rather than an option.

(See for the follow-up article "Building Big Ponds in the Caribbean" at: http://www.watergardenermagazine.com/node/1913 )

A romantic image of holidays on a Caribbean island and watching the sun set.