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(From Financial Post) The experience of working with what the trade calls a 'Bridezilla' made me keenly aware of how easily small misunderstandings can escalate into over-the-top meltdowns. My unpleasant [...]

Jul. 12--MOUNTAIN GROVE, Mo. -- Csaba Fekete has a recipe for grape leaves, but most cooks won't want it. The Southwest Missouri State University researcher sterilizes the leaves in acid, [...]

(From Western Daily Press) Abound set of 200year-old botanical magazines featuring glorious handcoloured flower engravings was last night expected to sell for GBP20,000 at a West auction. The Botanical Magazine, [...]

(From Aberdeen Press & Journal (UK)) A Drive to take woodlands into schools and help pupils and teachers link learning and natural heritage has been launched in Perth. The Perthshire [...]

Windhoek, May 10, 2005 (The Namibian/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) THE Gobabeb Research and Training Centre, in the middle of the Namib Desert, was yesterday inaugurated as a SADC […]

Kasese, May 11, 2005 (The Monitor/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) The Coordinator of Rwenzori Mountaineering Services (RMS), Mr James Mbahimba, has opened a 10-km route from Kilembe sub-county to […]

Now that the focal point of gardening has moved indoors, a practical precaution is in order. Parents of young children and people with animals in their homes need to remember […]

NOW that the focal point of gardening has moved indoors, parents and people with animals in their homes need to remember that some common house plants are poisonous. Especially susceptible […]

NOW that the focal point of gardening has moved indoors, a practical precaution is in order. Parents and people with animals in their homes need to remember that some common […]

WE were walking in the Beth Chatto Gardens when a plant near a sunny pond brought us up short. Its six-foot purple blades sliced the sky like a fan of […]

(From Western Daily Press) Hampton Court Palace Flower Show gives growers the chance to show what they created with the thousands of specimens sent to the Westcountry in the days [...]

(From Aberdeen Press & Journal (UK)) There is no stopping the prolific north-east author Charles Barron. No sooner does an item appear about his plays being shown at four different [...]

(From Aberdeen Press & Journal (UK)) Two of his missionary friends were killed by warring Tibetan groups. He hid in the surrounding mountains for 21 days, enduring hunger and exposure, [...]

(From Bristol Evening Post) As always the publishing world has brought out some great books, either to give as gifts this Christmas, or even just to treat yourself with. So [...]

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(From Bristol Evening Post) We'll start our look at all things gardening in September with a look at what's coming up on the box - and it's a bit of [...]

WASHINGTON, Jun 2, 2003 (U.S. Newswire via COMTEX) A report by TRAFFIC, the world's largest wildlife trade monitoring network, that sounded the alarm on poaching of Chihuahuan Desert cactus prompted [...]

(From Aberdeen Press & Journal (UK)) A Blooming website pro moting gardens was unveiled in Perth yesterday. The website was launched by Perthshire Tourist Board and the Perthshire Gardens Collection, [...]

Apr. 12--New Era Cap Co. has no fears of a 'Dewey Defeats Truman'-style fiasco after tonight's Frozen Four finale. That headline went down in history when the Chicago Daily Tribune [...]

There is something about columbines. The flowers are so beguiling in form, they are sure to please. Their name was derived from the Latin columba, meaning dovelike, which refers to […]

(From The Daily Telegraph) Byline: CHARLES LYTE The history of plant collecting in remote places is rich with remarkable tales, but Ray Brown has probably scored a first by riding [...]

(From The Express On Sunday) THEY will go down as some of the most important people in history. Over the centuries, Scotland has produced many of the world's greatest scientists, [...]

LEXINGTON, Ky. _ Ryan Martin guided his truck down a Gainesway Farm lane, pointing out trees as he drove. "What we've been doing is moving away from landscaping, to establishing […]

Jan. 29--State parks officials are preparing an unprecedented systemwide quarantine to slow the spread of sudden oak death even as scientists grow increasingly convinced that the tree-killing pest will eventually [...]

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ State parks officials are preparing an unprecedented systemwide quarantine to slow the spread of sudden oak death even as scientists grow increasingly convinced that the tree-killing […]

IT takes guts to set out in a ship when you don't know where you're going. You may arrive at something big -- like America -- and fill your coffers […]

SOME things never change. For bring'em-back-alive plant hunters like Paul W. Meyer, there is still danger and exhilaration in scaling mountains and trekking forests. His quest? Splendid new species for […]

Byline: David R. Greenwood Saskatoon SK -- As a botanist, I was quite interested to read about the rare tree, the Franklinia (Late Bloomer - Feb. 1). Unfortunately, it is [...]

THOUGH covering an area of some 550 square miles, the Hawaiian island of Kauai boasts some of the most spectacularly varied topography and climatic changes in all the archipelago. Waialeale, […]

LEAD: GERANIUMS and Memorial Day have gone together for many years. Traditionally, these sturdy plants are set out on the holiday in all kinds of spaces from window boxes to […]

When New Yorker writer Susan Orlean and I sat down to chat about orchids in March 1996, she told me she wanted to write a book about the passion of […]

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Life Science Weekly -- Fresh data on Biology are presented in a new report. According to news reporting originating from Oxford, United Kingdom, [...]

According to the authors of recent research from Uttar Pradesh, India, 'Indiscriminate extraction of Picrorhiza kurrooa is a serious threat to the population of this Himalayan medicinal plant. Over 90% [...]

THE ubiquitous jade (Crassula argentea) is a mainstay of the indoor plant collection. It is easy to propagate and simple to grow if it has enough sun. Mature plants that […]

For This Week: Last call to plant bulbs. . . . Wait until all leaves are raked up before applying lawn fertilizer. . . . Be careful about overwatering jade, […]

LEAD: AMERICANS have a new favorite pastime: the gardening of perennials, which they have taken up with the gusto they once reserved for cooking or running. New gardeners bone up […]

There is a map of the world on a wall in Alfred Byrd Graf's New Jersey home that is peppered with pin dots -red ones, blue ones and green ones. […]

LEAD: Two hundred and one years ago Thomas Jefferson left his post as America's Minister in Paris for a few weeks to visit England. After affairs of state, his purpose […]

LEAD: THE Sandplain Gerardia, a frail wildflower believed to be the rarest form of life on Long Island, is raising difficult questions for Federal aviation authorities. THE Sandplain Gerardia, a […]

LEAD: Although Frank A. Arsen admits he lacked patience as a young man, he now cultivates the trait as carefully as he does his garden. He has been collecting and […]

LEAD: WITH much fanfare, several mail-order nurseries are introducing a new chrysanthemum in their 1989 catalogues, and all signs suggest that it is destined to become one of the most […]