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Country & Rural Garden News (13)Newspapers (6)Other Gardening News (A-J) (29)Other Gardening News (K-Z) (30)Just What the Doctor Should Order Appendectomy? Two horticulture researchers document how flowers and foliage can hasten your recovery.... East/West, the Anthurium Dragon Test Vietnamese designers struck upon the ideal human anthurium project. Turn these iridescent red flowers into dragon scales. At Hanoi?s first Flower Street Festival (L? h?i ph? hoa Hà N?i), which winds up today, a pair of supernatural reptiles broke the world record for floral dragons and thrilled spectators... Restart?whether with flowers or dumb bells. It?s the season of discipline.... General Motors, after another near death experience, might be revived by making the vehicles of its glory days?like the flower car.... Nearing the tip of 2008?s tail, here?s a photo we?ve stashed away all year: Burton Holmes’s 1932 picture of Onagadori, ?honorable fowl,? and a patient judge untangling the dread-feathers. We especially like that the exotic roosters perch near wisteria (Wisteria floribunda), a plant likewise admired for its length—of flower racemes (up to 20 inches), breadth (sometimes 90 feet), and life (50 years or more)... Gardening Weenie: Surrender to Win After nine years of meager success, little fun, and too much hideousness in the yard, we cry UNCLE, Uncle Stan.... With poinsettia sales down, we still bring tidings of ho-ho-horticulture.... Royal botanical porcelain would make a nice gift?for somebody else. (Just don?t put it through the dishwasher.)... Editor?s Note: Your average Josephine likes nothing more than soaking up the sensorium of a well-made garden. But real gardeners generally can?t stand such passivity. Allen Bush is the latter, and sent us a lyric on the theme... Cut down in his prime, Bill Stein died last week, at age 54—but not before having a big impact on one little town: Columbus, Texas. Bill was raised here, moved off, travelled extensively and returned, bringing his talent for Socratic inquiry, his devotion to classical music and his passion for historical research back to Colorado County...
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