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Plant Life: Bold and beautiful (Otago Daily Times)
With its bold, leathery foliage and striking purple flower, Anisotome latifolia is a plant well worth a place in the garden.
Forward.com (Forward)
The Latest Bar Mitzvah Fad? Going Green, But at a Price Los Angeles — For Samantha Krieger’s bat mitzvah, guests were asked to reply by e-mail instead of paper cards, the food was served on bamboo plates and candles decorated the wooden tables in place of flower centerpieces.
Scientists develop cancer fighting tomato (Canada.com)
A purple tomato genetically engineered to contain nutrients more commonly seen in dark berries helped prevent cancer in mice, British researchers say.
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.
All set!: Create fabulous holiday tablescapes without spending a lot of money (Greenwich Time)
Eddie Ross makes setting the table with other people's discards look easy. An hour or two rummaging in a Greenwich consignment shop and Ross has the makings of four holiday table vignettes.
Weekend Plantings (The Lakeland Ledger)
An unusual winter-flowering shrub that brightens landscapes with lavender flowers and clusters of scarlet, inedible fruit is the lipstick tree from Tropical America.The lipstick tree (Bixa orellana), usually a hulking shrub about 10 feet tall, can, under ideal conditions, grow into an impressive 20-foot tree.
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