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BC BREAKING NEWS: (Victoria News)
A large patch of grass and a flower bed were destroyed at Beacon Hill park Tuesday night after a truck did donuts. "Essentially they took out a good-sized garden bed and about 1,100 square feet of turf (100 square metres) ... and (did) quite a bit of damage to the...
BC BREAKING NEWS: (Kelowna Capital News)
A large patch of grass and a flower bed were destroyed at Beacon Hill park Tuesday night after a truck did donuts.
PASSIONATE ABOUT POINSETTIAS (The Advocate)
Joel R. Poinsett, first U.S. ambassador to Mexico in 1825, would probably recognize the Christmas plant that bears his name — or not. When Poinsett returned home, he brought with him the wild poinsettia, also called Christmas flower, lobster flower and Mexican flame leaf.
Lichtenberg & the Little Flower Girl, By Gert Hofmann, Translated By Michael Hofmann (Independent)
Like all good Enlightenment brains, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's rode roughshod over academic boundaries. Nominally a mathematician, he made pioneering studies in electricity, introduced Germany to Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod, wrote passionately about British theatre and Hogarth's etchings, and coined some of the wittiest aphorisms of his age.
Gardens can calm, heal, bring benefit (Muskogee Phoenix)
Puttering in potted plants brings peace of mind, planting a bed of seeds reflects hope and nurturing bare ground into a bed of flowers inspires joy.
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