Sat 13th June 2009

Huntington Botanical Garden's corpse flower

The rare flower is due to bloom any day. When the gigantic Amorphophallus titanum -- also known as the corpse flower -- bloomed at the Huntington Botanical [More...]
Source: Los Angeles Times - CA

Huntington botanist gets a "Son of Stinky" head start

By Janette Williams, Staff Writer Jeff Kasner, botanist at the Huntington Library, dresses in a stinky flower hat and costume and talks to Morgan Schaack, [More...]
Source: Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena, CA

Plant life expected to clean fishing hot spot

Biologists just finished planting about 50000 bulrush plants in the lake to help speed up their restoration efforts. They say bulrush, which can grow to 10 [More...]
Source: WBBH - Fort Myers, FL

More Rhode Islanders planting gardens

Last month at a plant sale fundraiser for the Southside Community Land Trust, more than 2000 people went home with vegetable and herb plants — 600 more [More...]
Source: Providence Journal - Providence, RI

Fri 12th June 2009

Burbank Child Development Center Celebrates Planting Day

Students' families and others donate small flowers, vegetable plants, bushes and bark mulch to make Planting Day possible. All of the children at the center [More...]
Source: Fitchburg pride - NJ

Drought-tolerant beauty

Phil Van Soelen has landscaped his garden with plants that do not require additional watering during the hot summer months such as this orange poppy and [More...]
Source: Santa Rosa Press Democrat - Santa Rosa, CA

Live Oak students participate in planting project

the same students and their plants will be taken to Heller's Bend Reserve, where the students will do the planting. Jackie Heyneman, who heads the SOF [More...]

Dublin Gardeners Win Gold Medal at Bloom Flower Show

Dublin based Doyle Scapes landscapers won gold for their show garden exhibit “Urban Native” at Bloom this June. [More...]

Source: The Epoch Times - New York, NY