Palms
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Yes, Virginia, there is a Cardiff Botanical Society
Fresh Dirt &bull Yesterday
In Monday's Wall Street Journal I read about a love-it-or-hate-it surfer statue recently installed near the beach at Cardiff-By-The-Sea, California. But what caught my eye wasn't the statue, it was the group that put it there: the Cardiff Botanical Society… Full Story »
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Plant lovers learn harsh lesson on city's soil
www.thejakartapost.com via @AmazingOrchids &bull Sep 2, 2010Jakarta's plant lovers should take note of the characteristic of the city's soil, as the heavily polluted tropical city is not ideal for all types of plants. Sixty-year-old Mimi Maria Goretti, a green thumb, bought several potted flowering plants from… Full Story »
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How Orchids Grabbed Our Imagination | Coleman Farm Supply
colemanfarmsupply.net via @TheOrchidLover &bull Aug 28, 2010Since the famouse mania for tulips (or "tulipomania") crested in the Netherlands until the present, no one group of plants has managed to acquire such a tenacious grip on popular fancy as the orchids. Difficult as it is to picture, today's orchid craze doesn't hold a… Full Story »
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NYC's First Composting Toilet Facility at Tennis Courts | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
inhabitat.com via @clean4green &bull Aug 27, 2010A new restroom facility at Manhattan's Riverside Park Clay Tennis Association should ease the bladders of many a tennis player as well as the hearts of NYC environmentalists. The center, which has no real bathroom, has hired Cook + Fox Architects to perform a feasibility study for a solar-powered restroom facility that will be be carbon neutral and will feature composting toilets. Owing to the fact that the city's sewer lines don't connect into the park, a permanent bathroom has never been installed - so users of the Riverside Park Clay Tennis Courts use portable toilets or just hold it.… Full Story »
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Naples' Beautiful New Botanical Garden... - Presenting the Images of SW Florida
blogs.naplesnews.com via @gardeninthecity &bull Aug 27, 2010If the idea of a local swfl oasis representing several large, colorful, accurately presented and very lush tropical gardens is appealing then consider this attraction. With a mutual morning off we headed to the new but yet to be totally… Full Story »
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Loving' Hearts of Palm
Cultivating Paradise &bull Aug 27, 2010
Even though it is not considered "sustainable", I have to admit I love hearts of palm. And I've recently realized that us humans aren't the only animals that enjoy munching on this . Below is the carcas of a Japanese… Full Story »
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Horticulture & Small Farm News
brevardhorticulture.blogspot.com via @BrevardAgNatRes &bull Aug 24, 2010FloridaToday: In a Gainesville laboratory, mutant plants created in space are being carefully watched because they could become a source of jet fuel. It's Palm School time again! Palm school is on the road to Jacksonville. I know that is… Full Story »
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yew bonsai care | Bonsai Tree Care
www.craigrom.com via @KWesleyHowe &bull Aug 21, 2010How do you care for your conifers? Further resources. GARDENING WITH CONIFERS. Resources: *Bitner, Richard L. I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :roots may also take some of the soil with… Full Story »
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Sacramento Connect: Bill Bird and Brown Thumb Mama
SacBee -- Home and Garden &bull Aug 21, 2010
Despite an overwhelming selection of raised beds filled with loose soil, she has resisted the urge so far to 'dig, dig, dig.' My fear that this dog would develop a love for ripened tomatoes hasn't come to fruition and I… Full Story »
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Florida International University establishes Montgomery Botanical Graduate Fellowship
www.articleant.com via @articleant &bull Aug 20, 2010College of Arts Sciences Dean Kenneth G. Furton and Montgomery Executive Director M. Patrick Griffith, MBA '08, signed an agreement Aug. 6 to create the Montgomery Botanical Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship will fund a Research Assistant at FIU, who will… Full Story »
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The Arsana Estate Tanah Lot
www.eating-greens.com via @JodieChavezp80 &bull Aug 20, 2010The Arsana Estate is located in Banjar Nyambu, one of many prettiest villages in Bali, set amidst the rice fields of the Tabanan Regency and perched amongst a set of lush terraces overlooking a uncooked tropical jungle backdrop. Solely a mere thirty minutes drive from Bali's trendy centre, and fifteen minutes to Nirwana Golf course which overlooks Tanah Lot, Bali's most dramatic and commemorated sea temple. The Arsana Estate is awaiting you. It's your own hidden valley hideaway, a really good escape from the disturbing pace of everyday life. Arsana means 'movement' in Sanskrit, a language close to the hearts… Full Story »
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How Can Climate Change Be Vital Factor In Choosing Your Landscape Design
www.garden-fun.com via @Tracieo88 &bull Aug 19, 2010Melbourne has a tremendous temperature climate changes. You'll experience climate change even in one day. They used to call it as "four seasons in 1 day" in Melbourne Australia. it has the identical latitude as Seoul, Auckland, Athens and Algiers.… Full Story »
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Miami Beach Botanical Garden - Museums+Attractions - Miami - WhereTraveler, WhereTraveller
www.wheretraveler.com via @Miami_ESP &bull Aug 18, 2010Discover the history of Miami Beach through its plants, including more than 80 varieties of tropical palms, trees and plants in this 4.5-acre garden. They host numerous events, and tours are available. Plant and gift shop. Open Tues.-Sun, 9 am-5… Full Story »
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- Botanical Garden
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Our Community Garden - San Jose Mercury News
www.mercurynews.com via @CCTimes &bull Aug 12, 2010Our Garden: Gardening with wildlife, not against itPets and wildlife columnist Gary Bogue helps Our Garden visitors deal with deer, spiders in their home gardens. There are few things more demoralizing to gardeners than stepping out to find our gardens… Full Story »
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New FALL FAMILY FESTIVAL 10/17/10 AT 11AM - MOUNTS BOTANICAL GARDEN
gardennews.biz via @GardenNewsBiz &bull Aug 12, 2010Co-sponsored by the Junior League of the Palm Beaches. Welcome to Mounts Botanical Garden, Palm Beach County's oldest and largest public garden. Mounts gardens and programs provide the best horticultural and botanical information available related to South Florida's unique plants… Full Story »
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Cash-Crunched Resorts and Hotels Find That Going Green Is a Good Way to Scrimp on Money
www.alternet.org via @sitfu &bull Aug 12, 2010When breakfast-buffet diners pile more bacon, biscuits, homefries and pancakes than they can eat onto their plates at the Embassy Suites Hotel in South Lake Tahoe, California, it goes uneaten, abandoned in jagged, stickily gleaming heaps. But it doesn't go to waste. Tipped into bin-bags, tons of leftovers are toted about 10 miles… Full Story »
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MOUNTS Botanical Garden Home Page
www.mounts.org via @CBHHotel &bull Aug 11, 2010Welcome to Mounts Botanical Garden, Palm Beach County's oldest and largest public garden. Mounts gardens and programs provide the best horticultural and botanical information available related to South Florida's unique plants and environment. Mounts displays tropical and subtropical plants from… Full Story »
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Orchid Flowers - Part 61
www.caringfororchids.net via @EasyOrchidCare &bull Aug 11, 2010Product Description Nestled in a charming pot, this silk orchid plant will energize even the dullest of areas. The plant is available in your choice of a color scheme in orchid, beauty, gold yellow, or white to enhance your home or office. You will get expert knowledge and special tips about blooms, watering, and getting rid of orchid pests. I was shown these Listera australis orchids last year. They were flagged again this year. I also found a few smaller plants that were not flagged. These are so very tiny. I had to get down on the wet ground and… Full Story »
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Half Off Depot :: Atlanta Botanical Garden ticket - All Products
halfoffdepot.com via @laurenlester &bull Aug 4, 2010Go see what everyone is talking about! Renowned plant collections, beautiful displays, continually changing seasons and spectacular exhibitions make the Atlanta Botanical Garden the loveliest place in town to visit. An urban oasis in the heart of Midtown, the Garden includes 30 acres of outdoor gardens, the award-winning… Full Story »
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Steve Blackson: Central Texas Gardener
www.digyourhandsinthedirt.net via @iwellbc &bull Aug 2, 2010In the modern times throughout the world, gardening is a pleasant hobby, a favorite way to express a skill and a form of art itself. The benefits that individuals and communities gain from gardening have been widely known and advocated. Certainly, though, it didn't start a few years ago. Let's take a trip back in the earliest times as we trot the entire globe to discover the evolution of gardening. Traces of interest in… Full Story »
