Richmond and Twickenham Times - UK

Meticulous gardeners are being urged to let their greens go a bit wild this autumn in an attempt to keep shrubs and hedges cosy for nesting birds.

For garden birds’ sake, go a bit wild

Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan

A leading landscape artist from Japan is to develop a Japanese-style garden in a portion of the sprawling Fatima Jinnah Park in Sector F-9 for which initial modalities with the Capital Development Authority (CDA) have been finalised.

Top landscapist to create Japanese garden in F-9 Park

BBC News - UK

A rare cactus which researchers believe could help combat obesity has flowered at the Eden Project in Cornwall.

Rare cactus plant flowers at Eden

Organic-Market.Info - Germany

All interested parties are invited to the European Organic Congress, which will take place in Brussels on December 4 and 5, 2007.

Registration open for European Organic Congress

Reuters - USA

A record melt of Arctic summer sea ice this month may be a sign that global warming is reaching a critical trigger point that could accelerate the northern thaw, some scientists say.

ENVIRONMENT SUMMIT-Arctic thaw may be at “tipping point”

Science Daily (press release) - USA

Recent research from Vidi researcher Josef Stuefer at the Radboud University Nijmegen reveals that plants have their own chat systems that they can use to warn each other.

Clever Plants ‘Chat’ Over Their Own Network

Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA

But in the 1980s, when Pearl Fryar set out to win Yard of the Month in his Bishopville, S.C., neighborhood, he took the castoff plants home and clipped them into a spiral to make them look presentable.

S.C. topiary guru cultivates his talent

San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA

California’s push for energy from the sun could turn the Golden State into the Saudi Arabia of the solar power industry.

California may see boom in solar power plants

White Plains Journal News - White Plains,NY,USA

When most people think of gardens at gas stations, it’s not a pretty picture: marigolds here, a few scraggly juniper bushes there and acres of ugly red mulch.
But there’s a new breed of gas station owners in the Lower Hudson Valley…

Filler’up — with flowers

National Geographic - Washington,DC,USA

A thousand-year-old Viking treasure trove has been dug up in a garden in Sweden, archaeologists report.

Viking Treasure Trove Discovered in Swedish Garden