Kent News - Kent,UK

Keen gardeners and budding artists have been asked to join forces and create eye-catching displays to help their towns and villages welcome the Tour de France this summer.

Gardeners urged to welcome Tour cyclists with blooms

Mid Devon Star - Devon,UK

DEVON Wildlife Trust is celebrating two new ventures in May that will help Devon gardeners to encourage more wildlife onto their patches and combat the effects of climate change.

Devon gardeners encouraged to help wildlife

NBC 17.com - Raleigh,NC,USA

DURHAM, N.C. — It’s great weather for gardening and the non-profit group “SEEDS” is putting Durham teenagers to work in an urban farm market.

Durham Teens Grow Into City Gardeners

Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa

Taipei - Taiwan’s bee farmers are feeling the sting of lost business and possible crop danger after millions of the honey-making, plant-pollinating insects vanished during volatile weather, media and experts said on Thursday.

Taiwan stung by millions of missing bees

Arts, Dining and Entertainment - Brooklyn,NY,USA

Now to May 6, Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) celebrates Hanami, the Japanese cultural tradition of viewing and cherishing each moment of the cherry blossom season—from the first buds to the pink blossoms that fall like snow.

CELEBRATE SAKURA MATSURI AT THE BOTANIC GARDEN

The Times - Portland,OR,USA

Templeton Elementary students with a keen interest in gardening are honing their skills.

Raising a crop of new gardeners

John O’Groat Journal - Thurso,Scotland,UK

LOCAL authority grounds chiefs are coming under fire for an alleged snub to town gardeners in Caithness.

‘Scandal’ of snub to gardeners

Times Record - Brunswick,ME,USA

BRUNSWICK — Away from ongoing talk of a civilian airport, expanded golf course and carbon fiber manufacturing, support is building for Brunswick Naval Air Station land to be set aside for a garden park.

Garden group makes pitch for BNAS land

Woking News and Mail - Woking,Surrey,UK

John Hamer has lost a couple of colonies during the past year but puts this down to experimenting with different breeding methods

Mobiles no threat to John’s bees

uniprotokolle (Pressemitteilung) - Germany

To most of us, it’s hard to imagine a home that has no plants at all. Why are plants so important? A new dissertation from Umeå University in Sweden provides insight into our relationship with potted plants in the home.

Empty and strange without plants