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Reuters - USA
“We will create beautiful landscapes and bring communities together,” says Shaam Makan, Tricon vp production. “But most importantly we will be touching people with real-life stories, struggles and victories.”
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
“We’re going to be clearing lots, and helping add value to new homes by planting flowers and vegetables in the adjacent vacant lots,” says Erica Karfonta, a church member and volunteer.
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
Last week, the Ohio Resource Network for Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities sent an alert to 2,000 school, health and youth workers warning that teens were reportedly eating the seeds for an LSD-like high.
Minneapolis Star Tribune - MN,USA
Jackson & Perkins has introduced the Pope John Paul II, a hybrid tea rose developed and named in honor of the late pontiff. The newest in the company’s line of commemorative roses, Pope John Paul II is a classic white rose with a strong citrus fragrance.
Metro Toronto - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Pocket Plants are tiny, real, living plants carried in a bio-dome. They come in 15 varieties, from stone rose to glory cactus, and measure 1.7 centimeters in diameter, 4.2 centimeters high. They cost between $5 and $9.
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
Starting Mother’s Day weekend, Chicago turns the tables on its “City in a Garden” motto, staging a garden show specifically for city gardeners — smack in the middle of Grant Park.
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Entomologists have warned that bee numbers have fallen to dangerously low levels, because of the destruction of their habitats. They say the scheme is vital to prevent Britain’s 24 species of bumblebee from dying out.
Farmers sow fields with clover in battle to save the bumblebee
BBC News - UK
Guerrilla gardeners are sowing the seeds of resistance in south London, with a spot of illicit gardening in its neglected public spaces.
Striking at night, armed only with shrubs and plants, they set out to brighten up roundabouts and verges.
United Press International - USA
The IU scientists say their analysis of 882 plant and animal species and 1,347 inter-species crossings — the first large-scale comparison of species barriers in plants and animals — showed plant species are just as easily categorized as animal species.
The study also yielded a surprise: The hybrid offspring of different animal species are more likely to be fertile than the hybrid offspring of plant species.
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
The seeds, officially known as Genetic Use Restriction Technology (GURT), are one of the most controversial products biotechnology has yet produced, and critics say they could undermine traditional small-scale farming.
They are genetically modified to produce sterile offspring, meaning farmers have to buy new seed every spring instead of saving some from the previous year’s crop.
Canada acting as U.S. pawn in support of ’suicide seeds,’ say farm activists
