Botanic gardens and horticulture
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The Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens will offer an extra treat this weekend and next: nocturnal strolls along paths lit by thousands of candles. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Holiday Luminary Walk, volunteers plan to light 10,000 candles featuring different parts of the arboretum over four nights. The annual event is sponsored by Friends of the Arboretum, and features a one-mile, candlelit trek through the botanical...
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From kansascity.com
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Congratulations to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for housing not one, but two champion trees. 1010 Wins reports that "The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has named two trees at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden state champions — meaning they are the largest of their species on record in the state." The Kansas hawthorn is 31' tall, and the Carolina holly is a whopping 35' tall. Together they are the first two trees in New...
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From gothamist.com
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SINGAPORE — Japanese publishing house and film producer, the Kadokawa Group, will produce a film based on a real story of how a group of Japanese and British scientists joined hands to save the...
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From southeastasianews.net
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SINGAPORE, Nov. 20 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Japanese publishing house and film producer, the Kadokawa Group, will produce a film based on a real story of how a group of Japanese and British scientists joined hands to save the Singapore Botanic Gardens from ...
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The B-52s play Denver Botanic Gardens’ downtown amphitheater in June. Reverb file photo by Brittany Moore.
Talk about two grassroots organizations joining forces: Denver Botanic Gardens has partnered with Swallow Hill Music Association to produce shows for its popular summer concert series, it announced earlier today. Swallow Hill, a Denver nonprofit that already books and promotes [...]
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From blogs.denverpost.com
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The theft of rare cycads worth hundreds of thousands of rands from the Durban Botanic Gardens has set back conservation of the threatened plant species. Suspected thieves dug out and made off with 20 rare cycads.
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From sabcnews.com
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A group of 50 residents from the Park Avenue and Forest Field apartments hit out at the state for destroying existing greenery and failing to take into consideration the needs of those living nearby because of its Botanic Gardens expansion project.
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