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Designing Small Gardens

A garden is a natural adjunct to a beautiful home. Smartly designed gardens create relaxing environments outdoors and enhance both the beauty and value of property. For many, our out door living space these days is a small plot as urban living pushes more people into townhouse complexes. Tiny or not, your garden is still the gateway to your home. So it requires care and effort to make visitors feel welcome. 

Designing a small garden may even be more challenging than a large one. So we offer some considerations that will help your effort be successful. 

Agro Grace spotlights backyard gardening at Denbigh

The 56th staging of the annual Denbigh Agriculture & Industrial Show opens on Friday, August 2 – 4, during the Jamaica Independence weekend, at its May Pen, Clarendon showground.

New Hybrid Tomato

Tyranus Tomato


A new hybrid tomato from Seminis distributed by AgroGrace.

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Orchids: The sale of all sales

OrchidThis Saturday, May 31 expect to see the popular, familiar varieties of beautiful bare roots orchids at our mammoth orchid sale on at Agro Grace six branches islandwide.   But also prepare to be bowled over by our two new and exciting varieties never before displayed at the popular orchid sale.   

Direct from Thailand, the nation where orchids boom, are some new varieties of the familiar but come see and take home the new Dendrobium Nobile and Grammatophyllum varieties. And, be amongst those the first to own an Ascocentrum that comes mounted on wood.

Agro Grace opens new store in Ocho Rios

In keeping with our objective to create easy access to our products for our end-users, retailers and dealers, across the island, Agro Grace, a division of Hardware & Lumber Limited, opens its newest branch store in Ocho Rios in a strategic location to serve our valued customers throughout the North Coast region of Jamaica.

Our presence in the tourism resort town will increase access to the dealership in the region, hoteliers, landscapers, horticulturalists, hobbyist and professionals, and other end users of Agro Grace wide range of products. We are coming to town to cater to the needs of the home and hotel gardens, landscaping concerns, domestic livestock and pets, vegetable producers, and provide an assorted range of animal feeds.

Make a success of planting roses

GroundcoversRoses are among the most popular, distinctive flowers and, indeed, one of the oldest cultivated ornamental. According to an Internet source, there are over 2000 known Rose varieties of lovely blooms and breathtaking fragrance.

Agro Grace, in association with our partners, Jackson & Perkins, brings to our Jamaican Roses lovers an exotic collection of lovely blooms and fragranced roses in the form of Groundcovers, Bareroot Miniatures, Poly Bag Bush, Climbers, Shrub, Hedge, and Tree roses packaged in Poly bags.

All About Orchids and Roses Too

OrchidA number of Jamaicans are opting to spend more of their leisure time at home and with advance technology have found pastime on the indoors. A growing number of those are joining the ranks of the traditional garden hobbyists in forging a new relationship with their outdoor space. They have turned to sprucing up their landscape with the addition of ornamental plants and ornate fixtures.

All About Orchids, Again!

OrchidA number of Jamaicans are opting to spend more of their leisure time at home and with advance technology have found pastime on the indoors. But, a growing number are joining the ranks of the traditional garden hobbyists in forging a new relationship with their outdoor space. They have turned to sprucing up their landscape with the addition of ornamental plants and ornate fixtures.

It’s All About Orchids

orchidCattleya, Phalaenopsis, Oncidium, Dendrobium, Vandas and Paphiopedilum are familiar species to local exotic plant enthusiasts. How to Select, Grow and Care your orchids is what All About Orchids, a one day, sold out seminar, over this weekend, will capture at our Agro Grace head office, 697 Spanish Town Road on Saturday, September 29, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. and at Agro Grace Montego Bay branch at 1 River Bay Road, Montego Bay, Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 2:00 pm.

Rebuild, Replant and Recover

RebuildAgroGrace wants all farmers and other customers to know that we share your despair and know that you have the strenght and resiliance to Rebuild, Replant and Recover from the damages you have sustained from Hurricane Dean.

We remain committed in support of Jamaica's agricultural development through the provision of sound technical advice, quality products and services.

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