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Country & Rural Garden News (13)Newspapers (6)Other Gardening News (A-J) (29)Other Gardening News (K-Z) (30)After years of assiduous transnational work, botanists at Kew coax an iris into bloom for the first time.... Transporting plants internationally takes special expertise. Can anyone help this farmer in Austria find a ?travel agent? for sweet potato slips?... Arthur Williams, AIFD in full regalia Photo: Courtesy of Arthur Williams Any change of heart / mind / behavior before Ground Hog Day (Candlemas) counts as a New Year?s Resolution, so we?re happy to pass along our favorite florist?s rite... ?But what is it in Latin?? With new international rules, plants will no longer have to be described in Latin.... Rita Hayworth out-glamming a huge orchid corsage (c. 1950) It takes full on radiance to compete with a corsage of this scale (we?re guessing this shot dates from about 1950). Even a cluster of orchids the size of crock pot can?t outdo Rita Hayworth... ?To the greater glory of God??fourteen churches lay their flowers in a Macon, Georgia, Catholic sanctuary.... Year of the Dragon: Booming with Babies For Tet, the Lunar New Year in Vietnam, to begin auspiciously, there must be healthy plants. Several varieties are believed to bring good luck: in the North, flowering peach and fruiting kumquat are favored, and in the South, narcissus and bong mai (Ochna itegerrima)... Who?ll Deliver Flowers to an Atheist? Does it really take a police escort to deliver flowers? Possibly so, in Cranston, Rhode Island. Four shop owners there declined to deliver flowers to Jessica Ahlquist, a teenager whose challenge to a religious banner in her high school was upheld by a District Court... Floral Demonstrations Grow Thorns There?s a new spirit abroad in floral protests, not just ?in your face? but ?on your case.?... The National Gardening Association finds that flower growing in the U.S. has declined for the third year in a row. We’re not surprised. Some of the finest former rose gardeners in our neighborhood have tossed out their shrubs and been concentrating on arugula,okra and peppers...
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