Reuters India - Mumbai,India

The thousands of Greek villagers forced to escape flames that raged across Greece over the last week were not the only ones on the run.

Greece fears fires hit rare animals and plants

INQ7.net - Philippines

On a clear day, they would escape the city, catch a bus and travel for hours to the foot of forests, lugging backpacks stuffed not with their usual climbing gear of harnesses, carabiners and rope, but with tree saplings.

Climbers’ ‘new Everest’: Green mountains

Scotsman - United Kingdom

SCOTLAND’S first organic allotment site has won nearly a quarter of a million pounds to encourage people from deprived communities to take up gardening.

£228,000 to help allotments grow

New York Times - United States

For Americans on the move, a rest stop on the East Coast’s main thoroughfare, Interstate 95, seems an unlikely setting for a revolution. But to a growing number of horticulturalists, the vegetation stretching beyond the gas pumps toward the highway median might as well be marching behind a fife and drum.

Wildflowers Find Favor With Highway Gardeners

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom

The Prince of Wales may have been right all along: research showing plants respond to sound waves suggest that those who have derided Prince Charles for talking to his plants may have spoken too soon.

Beethoven can help crops grow more quickly

Daily Green - USA

1,433 Comments So Far On Proposal To Allow 38 Non-Organic Ingredients In Certain Certified Organic Foods

Last Day To Comment On USDA Organic Rule

San Francisco Chronicle - CA,USA

David Burke, San Francisco
I’d split the difference and pass along half the good stuff to my friends and half to myself, likewise with the not-as-great stuff. That way I could enjoy the crops and the props.

Should you eat or give away your best garden produce?

Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom

So Gardeners’ World, the nation’s horticultural hand-holder, is 40 years old. And for its four decades of turning manure, sowing seeds and deadheading roses, it has decided it needs a pat on the back.

Forty years of Gardeners’ World

Sun Publications Chicago - Chicago,IL,USA

There was a time when Jon Pettinger wasn’t inclined to eat a tomato, much less a jalapeno pepper. Those things just didn’t appeal to the palate of a typical 5-year-old.
But then he started growing them in a small strip of a garden that ran along the south side of the garage of his family’s Naperville home.

Learning from the ground up

Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA

Summer reading needn’t be limited to steamy fiction, though there’s certainly a place for those guilty pleasures. Why not pick up a gardening tome and head to the beach while you still can? Here are some worthy choices that were published recently:

Summer gardening books make great beach reading