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Brighten your home with flowers at the holidays Flowers do more than enhance the joy of festive occasions. Their presence can ease the effects of a frenzied pace that often accompanies holiday preparations. Indoor garden project helps gardeners beat winter blues. Are the dull, cloudy and dark days of winter getting you down? Miss your garden and the excitement of watching your plants grow and flowers coming into bloom? Say no more! Andhra red rose becoming popular in south Tamil Nadu Fresh flowers are mainly used to make garlands and value added products Kitsch grows in the Hillbilly Gardens of Kentucky Keith Holt spent vacations during his childhood looking at roadside attractions around the country. Now, hes turning his home into one. The property features, in various stages of completion, an Old West-style storefront complete with live chickens, potbelly pigs, geese and turkeys. Theres also an old country store, a toy museum and a fake roadside zoo. Between the store and the zoo lies the ... Conway named Tulares Woman of the Year A crowded Tulare County Board of Supervisors meeting went silent Tuesday morning as a group of women bearing flowers entered the room. Poinsettias in bloom The states growers have shipped almost all their flowers for Christmas The 70,000-square-foot glass greenhouse is mostly empty at Greenstreet Growers Inc. English town fearful as police hunt for leads in prostitute murders IPSWICH, England - Police hunting frantically for clues to the murder of five young prostitutes bagged a shoe and other clothing found on a riverbank Thursday in the English provincial town of Ipswich. In... Deck the halls with leaves and berries Last week in this column, I wrote about Christmas trees, and as I was writing, I was reminded of all the other plants that are associated with this time of year. When you think about it there are lots of them. So, here are the 10 that first came to mind... A plant variety for every taste They come striped, spotted, painted, glittered and in an array of colors — from purple to white to red — and at heights from 6 inches to 5 feet tall. Cal Poly’s poinsettia sale — lasting through Saturday — has nearly 30 varieties of the holiday plant with prices from $6 to $60. A rainbow-colored festival SHORT films about facets of gay culture and experiences are currently being screened at different Metro Manila theaters, exclusive to the Pink Film Festival 2006, an event organized by the Mowelfund Film Institute. |