UK Remembrance Wreath Uses Bermuda Flora

A wreath laid at the UK Cenotaph on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for Remembrance Day was made of flora representative of the UK Overseas Territories including two varieties from Bermuda.

Provided by the Royal Botanic Gardens, known as Kew, the wreath intends to remind Britain that the Commonwealth shares in their act of remembering the sacrifice of soldiers from around the United Kingdom and the UK’s Overseas Territories.

Earlier this week, Collections Horticulturist Carlos Magdalena finalised the plants to be featured in this year’s wreath. The collected sprigs and flowers, while grown at Kew, originate from Overseas Territories, including the Bermuda juniper and the Bermuda snowberry.

As well as the wreath which is laid at the Cenotaph, a second identical wreath is crafted and laid in Kew Gardens to commemorate the many members of the Kew Guild and staff who fell in the First and Second World Wars.

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