Chicago Tribune - United States

The benches in the shade of blooming pink and white crabapple trees make the small park on Chicago’s Southwest Side seem as if it were made for summer reading

City park is turned into reading garden

Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA

Unfortunately, the act of garden piddling is losing ground, so to speak, to our busier lifestyles. Current trends indicate that these increasing demands on our time are competing and winning out over the more leisurely activity of gardening. Specifically, careers, children, the Internet and a new generation spending less time outdoors than ever before are cited as the main reasons

Simple-pleasure gardening losing ground

Glasgow Evening Times - Glasgow,Scotland,UK

ONE of Glasgow’s top visitor attractions has been invaded - by thousands of hungry creepy-crawlies.

Bugs strife at Botanics as insects devour prize plants

Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA

“One hundred and fifty subjects later, data showed 100 percent of them had a Duchenne smile,” Haviland-Jones said. “One of the few things I know that gives a 100 percent reaction is if you drop a snake on somebody, which incites 100 percent fear in people. So I thought this was amazing.”

Study: Flowers have impact on emotional state

Palm Beach Post - FL, United States

Dozens of wild blueberry bushes, pawpaws, fetterbush and other native plants were saved from certain destruction today by 30 volunteers who moved them out of harm’s way.

Volunteers save native plants from bulldozers

Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA

The operation began military-style at the crack of dawn. Bearing welders’ gloves, shovels and tweezers for medical emergencies, the brigade of 40 moved across the desert, undaunted by rattlers, in single-minded pursuit of their well-defended targets.

Cactus rescuers save spiny plants from bulldozers

Bradenton Herald - FL, United States

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Plants won’t suck up as much of the carbon dioxide contributing to global warming as scientists had hoped, a new study led by a University of Minnesota researcher found.

Plants won’t save us from global warming, study says

Washington File - Washington,DC,USA

Washington – U.S. Department of Energy-funded researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA) have discovered a way to use plants to clean up environmental arsenic pollution.

US Researchers Use Plants To Clean Up Arsenic Pollution

Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA

When the gates open Saturday morning on Hershey Gardens’ 70th season, visitors will see cherry and magnolia trees in full glorious bloom, masses of PJM rhododendrons in eye-popping magenta, and the first salvo of 30,000 tulip flowers.

But even that kind of floral show might get elbowed off center stage in a few weeks when 10 giant bugs — some the size of SUVs — descend on this 23-acre botanical garden overlooking Hersheypark.

Giant (wooden) bugs to invade garden

Spreyer, who is growing a grassland at his preserve, added, “We should be supporting all habitats, not trading one for the other, and not favoring one species over another. Restoration is OK — except when we displace native plants that are home to native animals.”

Why are trees being cut in forest preserve?