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Local and Holy: Venezuela’s National Flower

Prolific, native, flamboyant as they come — and exclusive: Michael Sinn demonstrates how this flower crowns itself. 

In popular culture, Cattleya mossiae is known by many different names in its native country of Venezuela: Flor de Mayo (May flower), Mayito (Little May) and Flor del

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In a Drive-By World

Roadside memorials, in the U.S., Ireland, Greece, Italy: Cement and flowers say, “Semper fidelis.”

What’s the rush?

A wreath of silk flowers, a teddy bear, wooden cross, or hockey stick will slow you down. They mark not graves but mortality, something that may not otherwise

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Can Flag Iris Get A Golfer to Heaven?

How do golfers sleep knowing their perfect playgrounds are poisoning the soil and water? Their association is paying plant scientists for help.

There are many people, or at least one, who believe that golf and all involved in the sport need redemption.

When our life

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Flowers That Go Boom

Dig out the picnic basket (the earplugs, too). And settle in for some summer fireworks, flowers of the sky.

During the summer months more than half of North Carolina heads for the coast (joined by surf-pilgrims from landlocked states nearby: Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio). Wilmington

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Micro-Sublime

Hope, excitement, even affection…these can be drummed up. Not so with awe. Awe must be handed to you.

Thank you, Theo Bosboom.

We stumbled on images of his Flowerscapes in PetaPixel , a spot where VERY serious photographers share trade secrets. Bosboom’s expertise with lighting,

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Partisan Seed, Political Microclimates

Do flower choices announce how you voted?

We’re supposed  have a secret ballot in the U.S., but the flowers and vegetables in our yards may make a sham of it.

According to George Ball, the president of the giant seed company W. Atlee Burpee, the

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