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Belated Brides

In Taipei, “comfort women” were honored with white dresses and flowers after 60 years’ disgrace.

Cheng Chen-tao “was a student at Tainan Girl’s School. One day, as she was passing the police station, Japanese police officers seized her and sent her abroad to serve as

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For Those with Pink Thumbs

On the rollercoaster of taste, the lawn flamingo—America’s ersatz flower—has enjoyed a 48-year ride. (Make that 69..,and counting.)

At a garden center on the rich side of Austin, Texas, where all personal vehicles are war-ready and the children blond, a hillside is covered most of

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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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