 Despite its name reminiscent of Grenada’s British Colonial past, this particular Hyde Park is situated on Woolwich Road in Grenada’s capital city of St. Georges. Hyde Park has been the home of the Roberts family and its descendants for the past six generations.
Fay Roberts Miller, who was born at Hyde Park and her husband, John, are the current owners. The property sits just below the Governor General’s residence near the top of a natural amphitheatre which was formed by the crater of an extinct volcano. It overlooks The Lagoon,(including Peter De Savary’s Port Louis Maritime Village and Camper & Nicholson’s Marina) the port and part of the town of St. Georges, with a magnificent view to the South of the island as far as the Point Saline peninsula.
Hyde Park was originally a small estate and as such only had a tiny flower and kitchen garden close to the house. The remainder of the property was planted in fruit and hardwood trees and was pasture land for grazing cattle.
Hyde Park had been unoccupied for several years when Fay and John retired back to Grenada in late 2000. A leading Venezuelan based Landscape Designer, Christopher Baasch, was commissioned to design the garden and working to the design, Fay set to with a passion and in two years had transformed Hyde Park’s remaining one and a half acres into a garden.
When you walk around Hyde Park today and see the abundance and variety of palms, cycads, heliconias, bougainvillea and other tropical plants it is hard to believe that this is such a young garden. In only a few years this has been transformed into one of Grenada's finest gardens.
Hyde Park houses a unique collection of orchids which Fay gathered over the decades which she and John spent living and working in numerous countries in the Caribbean and Central America.
Amongst the orchids which can be seen at Hyde Park are Cattleyas, Vanda Rothschildiana, Arachnis, Spathoglottis, Dendrobium Biggibum, D.farmeri, D. Crumenatum, Arundina(the Bamboo Orchid), Epidendrums, Phalaenopsis,B. Nodosa, Brassias.
The garden also includes specimens of unusual plants rarely seen outside botanical gardens, such as the Portlandia Grandiflora, first discovered in Jamaica in 1795 and named after the Duchess of Portland and the Clusia . The visitor can also see red, pink and the more unusual white ginger lilies.
A wide variety of Heliconias, including the Beharry, named after Grenada’s Johnson Beharry who was awarded the Victoria Cross while serving with the British Army in Iraq; the Strelitzia Regina ( Bird of Paradise) There is also a wide variety of palms and cycads ( a plant that has existed since the age of the dinosaurs), Bougainvilleas in many colours, Bauhinias, crotons (including some unique Grenada hybrids) and Lotus,water lilies and ferns.
- Hyde Park, Woolwich Road, St. George, Grenada, W.I.
- Tel: 1 473 440 8395
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