Plants of the St George Village Botanical Garden

This website was created by John Rains for the St. George Village Botanical Garden on St. Croix, USVI. Its purpose is to serve as a means of sharing phenology photography with the Garden’s Horticultural Manager.

This project is primarily a photographic study documenting the phenology—the timing of key seasonal events in the life cycle—of selected shrubs and trees growing in the Garden. The work supports the Garden’s Level II accreditation under the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program, which was achieved in July, 2025.

In the list below, the 100 species submitted for Level II accreditation are shown in bold.

Red Text indicates that the plant has been photographed for over a one-year cycle.

On each of the species pages, POWO Status: refers to the classification given by Kew Gardens Plants of the World Online database: https://powo.science.kew.org/. Also, IUCN Red List threat level: refers to the threat level assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species: https://www.iucnredlist.org/

A page has been added to showcase plants that are not part of the phenological study but are included for their beauty. Miscellaneous.