Why it’s time to re-energise with flower power on botanic beauty St Lucia
Dragon’s blood, hanging crab claws and giant fishtails surround me, heightening my senses – although I’m in an environment far more calming than these strange horticultural names might suggest. Working my way through acres of palms, I brush past scarlet ginger lilies, fragrant frangipani and a tree offering trailing black berries, which my guide Coady describes as Bob Marley’s dreadlocks. I’m in St Lucia’s Diamond Falls Botanical Gardens (diamondstlucia.com) –…