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1.) Budget cuts end New England Flower Show after 137 years

2.) Is 1900-pound pumpkin going to break the world record

3.) Hines Horticulture files for Chapter 11

4.) French winemakers using satellite images to improve crops

5.) George Ball disappointed about Heronswood

6.) Heronswood back on the market

7.) Aspirin may cure citrus disease

8.) Is your garden's fertilizer a radioactive hazard?

9.) Genetically engineered blue roses available for purchase

10.) Georgians may soon be allowed to water their dead plants

11.) Newly discovered species of giant palm can be seen from space

12.) Botanists abandon research efforts along US/Mexico border

13.) Scott's fined $500,000 for accidental release of genetically engineered weed

14.) Trees spliced with rabbit genes clean industrial waste

15.) Artificial corn chromosomes made-to-order

16.) Bumblebees disappearing too

17.) Five new plant species found in Vietnamese 'Green Corridor'

18.) Bigger vegetables mean reduced flavor and nutrients

19.) Fruit picking robots may replace migrant workers

20.) Bee colonies wiped out by Bayer lawn care products

21.) Japanese farmers grow living Hokusai woodblock prints from rice paddies

22.) Loss of hemlocks could devastate Appalachian ecosystem

23.) Woman grows strawberry inside tomato... Straw-mato?

24.) 8,000,000 year-old preserved cypress trunks discovered

25.) NASA map shows US lawn coverage

26.) New orchid discovered in Yosemite -- that smells like sweaty feet

27.) Plant pathologist earns highest honors for life's work

28.) Hortibot destroys weeds, finds Sarah Connor

29.) Hydroponic strawberry farms way of the future?

30.) Cogongrass gives kudzu a run for its money down south

31.) Australian apple moth invades California

32.) Plants recognize their own siblings

33.) CT scanners find insects in trees

34.) Woman poisons playground tree to improve view

35.) Endangered species act is threatened, faces extirpation

36.) Giant witch-faced turnip found in Wellington

37.) Spruce trees appearing in arctic tundras

38.) Attack of the killer Rhododendrons

39.) Scientists devise method to keep bananas fresh

40.) Gunslinger shoots and kills noxious weeds

41.) Chinese enjoy spacecraft-mutated purple potatoes

42.) Is Arundo donax the answer to our power problems?

43.) It's warm in Britain, but smells like corpses

44.) Gardening trends for 2007

45.) Monaco installs first European carbon sink

46.) Bush administration to recognize global warming threat

47.) Brooklyn cherry trees blooming during unseasonably warm winter

48.) Climate changes affecting USDA hardiness maps

49.) Pacific Northwest Horticultural Conservancy aims to save Heronswood gardens

50.) US to spray 320,000 acres in Afghanistan with Roundup

51.) 100 million year-old bee found in amber

52.) Illinois lumber, logs, wood chips, and firewood transport limited by emerald ash borer

53.) Red cedar more of a pest than a pleasure

54.) Woolly adelgids attacking Kentucky hemlocks

55.) Cross-dressing cycad thief caught after dropping breasts

56.) Beetles being imported to save hemlock trees

57.) Gene sequencing key to sudden oak death cure

58.) Louisiana family grows record-setting watermelon

59.) Yellow jackets starting to form giant nests

60.) Genetically engineered grass found escaped in wild

61.) New self-pollination method found in wild Chinese orchid

62.) Burpee shutting down Heronswood Nursery?

63.) Another benefit of global warming: more poison ivy

64.) Giant worms resurface in US

65.) Largest US community garden evicted by developer

66.) Stand of unblighted American chestnuts discovered

67.) California front yard stolen

68.) Sudden Oak Death didn't come from the US

69.) It sucks to be algae in Hawai'i

70.) Guerrilla Gardeners of London attack at night

71.) Shortening your plants with a shot of tequila

72.) Engineered plants glow when thirsty

73.) Winter lawn browning? Give it some green paint

74.) Exposure to nature reduces ADD

75.) Industrial espionage rocks rose hybriding world

76.) 4.4 million acres of Canadian rainforest saved from logging

77.) Dozens of new species discovered in lost Indonesian rain forest

78.) Radish with fighting spirit perseveres despite decapitation

79.) Christopher Lloyd remembered

80.) Orchid black market 'fleur'-ishing

81.) Will homes of the future use LIVE timber?

82.) 340-year-old oak finds future in wine barrels

83.) New electrical energy source found in trees

84.) Plants produce significant amounts of methane gas

85.) Glow-in-the-dark roses add bling, fo' shizzle

86.) U.S. reduces tariffs on Canadian lumber

87.) Oaks uprooted by Katrina to help repair historical whaling ship

88.) Forget cloning! Splice your DNA into a tree

89.) Caterpillars drive syrup prices upwards

90.) Student finds world's oldest red spruce

91.) Red fall color found to be murderous

92.) New moonwort species discovered near Georgetown

93.) Endangered species act rewritten

94.) Evil dwarf Amazon gardener found to be acid-spitting ant colony

95.) Scientists develop plants to grow on Mars

96.) Florida woman's garden grows a $73,000 fine

97.) Price of cypress going to go up

98.) Planting trees may help create deserts

99.) Echinacea proven not to help colds

100.) Deadly blackberry fungus invades U.S.

101.) Boy Scouts earn landscape architecture merit badge

102.) Waiting 2030 years to get a date

103.) Sugar esters new future of pest control

104.) Another titan arum blooming at UW-Madison

105.) Winter moths moving south, invade Massachusetts

106.) Activists plant endangered wildflowers to thwart development efforts

107.) Thought-to-be-extinct California wildflower found after 60 years

108.) Grapefruit tree claims immunity under Geneva Convention

109.) Rising oil prices raise maple syrup costs

110.) Kudzu attacks Indiana, threatens soybeans

111.) Once-thought to be extinct woodpecker alive and well

112.) EPA cancels program to study pesticides on poor children for $970

113.) The trials and tribulations of a US maple syrup maker

114.) Are trees the next oil?

115.) American elms making a comeback

116.) Alan Bloom dies at 98

117.) Daylight Savings Time is this weekend!

118.) American Daffodil Society meets at Missouri Botanic Garden

119.) Top ten list of invasive plants in Canada

120.) Major changes coming that will affect all US gardeners -- how can YOU make a difference?

121.) April declared National Landscape Architecture Month

122.) Hawai'i running short on landscape architects

123.) Gallery of gluttonous trees

124.) Gardening teaches juvenile detention residents life values

125.) Monarch butterfly populations 75% lower in 2004

126.) Strawberry latent ringspot virus found in North America

127.) Kyoto Global Warming Pact takes effect... Sort of.

128.) Oldest oak in Versailles uprooted

129.) American ginseng on verge of extinction from deer

130.) Could trees become our energy savior?

131.) Species extinction rate accelerating

132.) Toronto to get botanical garden

133.) World's highest botanical garden built in China

134.) Scientists figure out how a venus flytrap works

135.) Indonesian Forestry Minister to replant mangroves

136.) Sun is actually up to 30% dimmer than fifty years ago

137.) Single-season seed producers suing farmers

138.) Dianthus gratianopolitanus 'Firewitch' named 2006 Perennial Plant of the Year

139.) Chamaecyparis nootkatensis moved to Callitropsis genus

140.) Wisconsin pesticide registry now available to homeowners

141.) hort.net needs your help

142.) New CA law limits flammable vegetation

143.) Keyhole gardens save lives in Lesotho

144.) Illinois DNR cutbacks will cause natural resources to suffer

145.) US government prepares to restrict nursery shipments

146.) Scientists discover new animal and plant species in Borneo

147.) Des Moines Botanical Center starts fund-raising for new gardens

148.) Forest Service announces changes to National Forest Management Act

149.) Where have the Illinois flowers gone?

150.) Canberra Arboretum starts 3-year, $10 million renovation

151.) Powell Gardens signs for $6 million expansion

152.) New York Botanical Garden restores conifers that were buried alive

153.) Black market for Scottish sphagnum moss damages native habitats

154.) Rush to fix student grades leaves them unaware of land stewardship duties

155.) Thieves in SE US nuts about pecans

156.) Spring arrives earlier than in the past

157.) Half of the homes and workplaces needed by 2030 don't exist yet

158.) Japan exports fruit as domestic consumption drops

159.) Forbes and Colorado Open Lands trust save 80,000 acres

160.) Cycad thefts continue in Florida and California

161.) History of the poinsettia

162.) hort.net top stories now available as RSS feed

163.) German forests growing fast, but sick

164.) Alaska Botanical Garden flush with cash, ready to start improvements

165.) Rainbow-hued carrots aren't just for your eyes any more

166.) Chicago Botanic Garden releases six-year Lamium study results

167.) American Standard for Nursery Stock now available free, online

168.) At risk dead trees vital to forest life

169.) Where to get grants or give money for prairie research

170.) Indiana destroying 24,000 trees to prevent spread of emerald ash borer

171.) Hurricanes blamed for spreading citrus canker

172.) Six year-old boy grows 2.5 pound apple

173.) New record-setting pumpkin tips scales at 1446 pounds!

174.) Superweeds are just a golf course away

175.) Alaska man grows record-setting 707 pound pumpkin

176.) Using ecology to outwit weeds

177.) A hummingbird is born -- pictorial from egg to fledgling

178.) Cold NE winters protecting against wooly adelgid

179.) Burning your prairie? Maybe it's time to start mowing

180.) Sudden Death Syndrome found in Indiana soybean fields

181.) PhotoShop contest: If trees ruled the world (rated 'T')

182.) Police can't tell hibiscus and marijuana apart

183.) Talk to your plants? Now they can sing back!

184.) Don't squash mosquitoes; flick them!

185.) Update on hort.net fund drive

186.) Brood X cicadas head back underground

187.) University of Connecticut corpse flower ready to bloom

188.) Invasive plants problematic in Alabama

189.) Orange you glad it's cauliflower?

190.) Fast-food annuals: super-size me

191.) Can American chestnuts make a comeback?

192.) Winning the battle against loosestrife, one weevil at a time

193.) Hemlock wooly adelgids found in Vermont

194.) Shrub and flower theft problematic in Dallas

195.) Fear of giant African snails forces confiscations in US

196.) First boxwood encyclopedia published by American Boxwood Society

197.) Extreme weather prompts unprecedented global warming alert

198.) Sun 10% dimmer than fifty years ago

199.) Royal Horticultural Society honored with UK stamp series

200.) Texas plant poaching running rampant

201.) Wild bamboo forests face extinction

202.) Emerald ash borer concerns restrict firewood transport

203.) Cancer research yields a true blue rose

204.) EPA restrictions loosened for formaldahyde-producing timber plants

205.) Does an organic food label mean anything any more?

206.) 2004 All-American Rose Selections (AARS) named

207.) Higher temperatures turn plants into killers

208.) Brood X cicadas are coming

209.) Last existing alani tree produces offspring, with a little help

210.) American chestnuts poised to make a comeback

211.) Daylily auctioned off for world-record setting cost

212.) Combatting Alzheimer's through gardening

213.) Dutch firm setting up flower breeding plant in Kenya

214.) Contest will award $10,000 for worst lawn in US

215.) Global warming changes maple syrup industry

216.) The world is undergoing its sixth mass extinction

217.) Photoshop theme: If plants ruled the world... [some blue humor]

218.) Georgia quarantines all nursery plants from California

219.) Monrovia offers more detail on Sudden Oak Death finds

220.) Sudden Oak Death found on camellias in California

221.) Pitch canker found in Sierra Nevada

222.) 10,000 outlaw roses destroyed in Florida

223.) The evolution of raspberries

224.) Once again, a geranium blight scare in the US

225.) USDA uses Acer mono as bait for Asian longhorned beetle

226.) Are plant rescue programs ethical?

227.) Mosquitoes in your yard? It might not be all bad

228.) Is your garden really a cluster of computers?

229.) Whitebark pine discovered on Mount Ashland in Oregon

230.) Mystery of world's largest flower solved

231.) Transgenic mosquitoes to battle malaria?

232.) Exotic insect threat forces recall of Christmas pine cones

233.) Icewine is back after four year dry spell

234.) Forest grump cut down

235.) Memorial service for Tony Veca, contribution information for memorial fund

236.) Fertilizers increasing frog deformities

237.) Making Paulownias grow faster

238.) MSU's 90 year-old extension program facing elimination

239.) Garlic kills slugs

240.) Free compost may not be worth the price

241.) Invasion of the rabbit's foot fern

242.) Siamese walnuts found, boxwood takes root in woman's thigh!

243.) Asian beetles to eradicate pesky tamarisk shrubs

244.) Official 1385-pound record-breaking pumpkin grown in Oregon

245.) 'Farmer Mike' carves BIG pumpkins for Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival

246.) World's largest bamboo found in Yunnan

247.) CNN map shows best times of the year for fall color throughout US

248.) New treatment for Sudden Oak Death approved

249.) Young brother/sister pair grow 500 pound pumpkin

250.) The story behind a 750-pound squash

251.) Congress appropriates $20 million to battle Mormon crickets

252.) Crickets tracked with tiny transmitters

253.) New world record for largest pumpkin weighs in at 1458 pounds

254.) Popular Science editors rate raising corpse flowers as 12th worst job in science

255.) Rare and endangered plants of Hawaii showcased at U.S. Botanic Garden

256.) Spotted knapweed shown to trigger suicide in neighboring plants

257.) Efforts underway to resurrect American chestnut

258.) American Hydrangea Society Web site up and running!

259.) Colored mulches continue to improve crop production

260.) Homeowners association fines woman for official wildlife habitat in yard

261.) Disease affecting pecan trees linked to nickel deficiency

262.) Bonsai trees pampered in own hotel in Portugal

263.) Man grows prize-winning 2 pound, 9.5 oz. tomato

264.) Trees going dormant early in areas of drought

265.) Michigan town to destroy many ash trees

266.) Soybean aphids moving south

267.) Environmentalists sue EPA in effort to ban most popular US herbicide

268.) British artists make art out of grass in Chicago

269.) Union Slough prairies need your help, again

270.) Emerald ash borer could devastate Illinois

271.) New USDA vegetable laboratory dedicated

272.) Giant redwoods become weather stations on wireless network

273.) Rare heirloom seed collection lost in fire

274.) Scientists developing fungus to eradicate Ailanthus trees

275.) Florida wants to cultivate the next kudzu

276.) Insects killing Northeast conifers

277.) Gene swapping between plant species possible

278.) Jumping oak gall prevalent in St. Louis again

279.) Scientists working to extract seed dormancy genes

280.) Grass clippings left on lawn aid environment

281.) Golf courses good for environment

282.) More cycads stolen in California; do you have info?

283.) Global climatic changes have benefited plant life on Earth

284.) New Asian beetle threatens American ash trees

285.) HELP! Do you know of a Nebraska prairie for sale?

286.) Help out bees -- don't just plant hybrids

287.) DNA tests show orchids are close relatives of... asparagus?

288.) National Bonsai and Penjing Museum reopens

289.) Russian gene bank faces eviction

290.) Cypress Gardens closing, state of Florida may purchase

291.) The physics of gardening in space

292.) 2003 Garden Golden Globe Award Recipients Announced

293.) Graham Stuart Thomas passes away

294.) 400,000 year-old DNA reecovered from extinct plants

295.) Frog Gene Spliced Into Rhododendrons to Prevent Root Rot

296.) Rare US Fern Threatened by Invading Earthworms

297.) Asiatica Nursery Suffers Severe Fire Damage

298.) National prairie coalition formed

299.) Iowa prairies need your help!

300.) Trillium rivale brought into new genus, named Pseudotrillium rivale

301.) Stolen cycads recovered!

302.) 20 Rare African Plants Stolen from Quail Botanical Gardens

303.) Pride of Place Plants adds 25 Japanese hydrangeas to its lineup

304.) Scientists plan to find and name every species within 25 years

305.) California Environmentalist Fights to Save Oak

306.) 2002 Garden Writer's Guild Award Winners Announced

307.) Patent Litigation Threatens Gardening eCommerce

308.) ICanGarden.com Announces International Garden Tours for 2003

309.) Kew Gardens releases first version of ePIC, a database search interface

310.) Ivy of the Year Announced for 2003

311.) Six Centuries of Horticultural Publications Acquired by Chicago Botanical Garden

312.) Asian rust fungus attacking daylilies in Western Hemisphere

313.) Eradicate Polio by Purchasing Delphinium Seeds!

314.) Asian Lonhorn Beetle Sighted in New Jersey

315.) National Organics Program Takes Effect

316.) African vegetable gardens reduce vitamin A deficiency

317.) Future of young people in the horticulture industry

318.) New species of conifer discovered, Chamaecyparis becomes Xanthocyparis

319.) New giant pumpkin world-record at 1337.6 pounds!

320.) Brewster Rogerson's 900-plant Orgeon-based clematis collection needs help!

321.) Flora of Indiana republished after 60 years by Blackburn Press

322.) Some new plant introductions for 2003

323.) 9/11 flower vigil compost enriches New York garden

324.) USDA defines 'organic' in terms that apply to flower production, too

325.) Impending mini ice age may drop global temps 10 degrees faranheit

326.) Ukrainian wetlands in danger

327.) Why the proposed Bush burn policy is bad

328.) Gardening IS good for the soul

329.) USDA changes regulations on artificially dwarfed plants

330.) Drought monitor map shows state of U.S.

331.) Roof gardens help beat the heat

332.) Building a quick and easy pond in a barrel

333.) August 4-10 National Farmer's Market Week

334.) 2002 Floral flag in full bloom

335.) Do chemical grass treatments increase health risks?

336.) Royal Horticultural Society Flower Show at Tatton Park

337.) World's largest flower at Quail Botanical Gardens

338.) First Windsor Castle public gardens complete

339.) Predicting Invasions of Nonindigenous Plants and Plant Pests published online

340.) Pesticide-based frog deformities linked to parasites

341.) Not just any Georgetown garden

342.) Earlier flowering from global warming could have evolutionary impact

343.) Invasive fleabane watch; call APHIS if seen!

344.) National Agriculture Library honors memory of Wye Oak

345.) White oak national champion gone

346.) Crescent sunset June 10th, 2002

347.) Darryl Probst and his Epimedium quest

348.) Vinegar may be the most effective organic weedkiller

349.) May 18th visit to Munchkin Nursery on for perennials list members!

350.) Parks to use new technology in war against Asian long-horned beetles

351.) Early bird deadline for ACGA conference approaching

352.) Conservation title of Farm Bill needs your help!

353.) Weed killer causes sexual mutations in vertebrates

354.) Horticultural Therapy and Community Outreach Internship at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

355.) hort.net gallery reaches 2500 image mark!

356.) More about pet supplier lawsuit from MSNBC.com

357.) Pet supplier sues online aquatic plant discussion list for millions

358.) Last chance to register for 2002 American Hosta Society National Convention!