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• What Plants Will Survive in Your Garden? This Map Plans for a Warmer U.S.

  21-11-2023 19:58 via nytimes.com
  About half of the country moved into a slightly warmer zone in the Agriculture Department’s new “plant hardiness” map, an important guide for gardeners. Climate change may be a factor.
  
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• The Wild Beauty of Moss

  21-11-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  The inconspicuous plant is now the unexpected star of many naturalistic arrangements.
  
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• What’s the Easiest Houseplant? Many Experts Will Give You One Answer.

  08-11-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Bromeliads tend to have an “easy disposition” that allows them to flourish in low light with infrequent watering. And that’s not the only remarkable thing about them.
  
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• Plants From a Royal Home Grow Into a Gown

  27-10-2023 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  London designers working on sustainable fashion created a dress from the leaves of giant butterbur plants gathered at one of the king’s homes.
  
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• If You Plant Milkweed, They Will Come. (And Not Just the Butterflies.)

  25-10-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  These underappreciated plants attract a “hungry throng” of beneficial insects. They’re not bad to look at, either.
  
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• The Sunday Read: ‘The Genius Behind Hollywood’s Most Indelible Sets’

  22-10-2023 12:00 via nytimes.com
  
  How Jack Fisk, the master production designer behind “Killers of the Flower Moon” and many other films, brings the past to life.
  
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• Cherokee Tribe Shares Native American Knowledge in North Carolina

  21-10-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Countless generations of Cherokee Indians have cultivated lands in the shadow of the Smoky Mountains. More people want to learn from them.
  
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• How the ‘Glam Gardener,’ Aly Stoffo, Spends Her Sundays

  21-10-2023 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Aly Stoffo knows where to find wild mushrooms, berries and other edible plants on Staten Island. But the location of her favorite paw paw patch is a secret.
  
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• Why You Don’t Need to Rake the Leaves

  19-10-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Thinking about raking freshly fallen leaves into a pile? Think again, scientists and naturalists say.
  
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• To Save Monarch Butterflies, They Had to Silence the Lawn Mowers

  14-10-2023 14:59 via nytimes.com
  
  An unlikely group of New Yorkers is winning small victories in the battle to protect butterfly habitats.
  
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• What Climate Change Does to my October Garden

  09-10-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  By the time the butterflies finally arrived here, the fall wildflowers were mostly gone.
  
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• Meet the Plant People

  07-10-2023 12:58 via nytimes.com
  
  For some, tending to our humble home gardens, dreaming of lush green splendor, is a pastime. For others, it’s a calling.
  
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• The New Plant Keepers

  07-10-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A cadre of creative types now cares for the hundreds of thousands of corporate plants in New York City, one leaf at a time.
  
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• What Kind of Year Has It Been for Gardeners? An Aggravating One.

  04-10-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  From spongy moth caterpillars to torrential rains, this garden season has been plagued by one challenge after another.
  
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• Arizona to End Water Leases to Saudi-Owned Alfalfa Farm

  03-10-2023 22:33 via nytimes.com
  
  The farm grows alfalfa for export to Saudi Arabia, where it’s fed to dairy cows. But the farm’s water use had come under scrutiny.
  
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• Homecoming Mums, Part of a Texas Tradition, Are Bigger Than Ever

  30-09-2023 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The elaborate adornments have come a long way since the days of simple chrysanthemum corsages.
  
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• Boss’s Day Gift Guide

  26-09-2023 18:46 via flowershopnetwork.com
  
  Boss's Day is October 16th! Surprise your boss with a beautiful flower arrangement, perfect for their desk. It's sure to be the highlight of their day! Not sure what to get? Check out a few of our favorite gifts!
  
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• In Large and Small Ways, These Leaders Are Taking On Climate Change

  20-09-2023 19:58 via nytimes.com
  
  The New York Times Climate Forward event will include speakers who are working on everything from new grain technologies to protecting native species.
  
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• Ross Gay Offers a Joyful Approach to Gardening in His New Book

  20-09-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  In ‘The Book of (More) Delights,’ Ross Gay offers a joyful approach to gardening, with gratitude even for the dandelions.
  
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• A Viable Alternative to Conventional Lawn? Cornell May Have Found It.

  13-09-2023 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Cornell Botanic Gardens is testing sustainable options for replacing your backyard grass. The bonus: They don’t need to be cut more than twice a year.
  
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• Wiping Out the Dinosaurs Let Countless Flowers Bloom

  13-09-2023 01:01 via nytimes.com
  
  While the extinction affected some flower species, most lineages survived and the catastrophe may have helped them become a dominant form of plant life.
  
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• For Fresh Flowers This Winter, Try Forcing Bulbs

  06-09-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Previous generations of gardeners knew that coaxing bulbs to bloom early was the easiest way to have fresh flowers in winter. Here’s how they did it.
  
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• Understanding Seeds and the Pandemic Seed Shortage

  30-08-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  When one gardener realized there was no seed available to order, she panicked and then began asking questions. Her new book offers some answers.
  
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• Grandparents Day Gift Guide

  29-08-2023 16:24 via flowershopnetwork.com
  
  Grandparents Day will be here before you know it! Spoil your grandparents with a bouquet of fresh flowers. Check out a few of our favorite bouquets, perfect for Grandparents Day!
  
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• Tiny Forests With Big Benefits

  24-08-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Native plants crowded onto postage-stamp-size plots have been delivering environmental benefits around the world — and, increasingly, in the U.S.
  
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• How to Preserve Summer Herbs in Your Freezer for Year-Round Cooking

  23-08-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Frozen herbs can conjure up the delights of warm weather even in the depths of winter. Here’s how to get started.
  
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• Let’s Plant Wildflowers in the National Mall

  22-08-2023 20:40 via nytimes.com
  
  Readers react to a guest essay urging a rewilding of the mall. Also: Indicted lawyers; Sununu on the G.O.P. candidates; the Ukraine war; DeSantis and the Ivy League; pain patients.
  
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• Sunflower Farm Warns Guests, ‘Keep Your Clothes On’

  22-08-2023 09:37 via nytimes.com
  
  A summer getaway southwest of London put up signs asking people to stop posing for risqué photos where other guests, including children, could see.
  
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• How Hugh Findletar Became a Rare Black Glass Artist in Venice

  16-08-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The former first lady, Naomi Campbell and Anne Hathaway are among those whose faces Hugh Findletar has reimagined as glass vases.
  
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• Why Are People Still Pressing Flowers? It’s a Form of Storytelling.

  16-08-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  For 500 years, we’ve documented the science and beauty of the natural world by pressing plants. It’s a tradition that anyone can join.
  
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• Florists Take to the Floor

  15-08-2023 11:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Designers are ditching vases in favor of dramatic arrangements on the ground.
  
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• How to Make the Most of Your Trip to Amsterdam

  14-08-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  It’s all fun and games until you’re elbowing your way through hordes of tourists at Dam Square. But a little quiet is far from impossible in the Dutch capital.
  
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• Turn the National Mall Into a Wildflower Meadow

  10-08-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Big Lawn is no less formidable a foe than Big Oil or Big Tobacco, which is why an audacious gesture is needed on the most prominent lawn of all.
  
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• How to Create an Ecologically Responsible Garden That’s Also Beautiful

  09-08-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Having an ecologically responsible landscape doesn’t mean you need to get rid of your favorite plants: “It’s about letting things in.”
  
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• How the Creators of Innisfree Garden Used Light to Create Magic

  02-08-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Innisfree, in Millbrook, N.Y., “doesn’t look like other gardens.” That’s by design.
  
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• Back-to-School Gift Guide

  01-08-2023 16:32 via flowershopnetwork.com
  
  Kick the new school year off right with a bouquet of fresh flowers! From teachers to students to administrators and more, flowers are the perfect gift for anyone starting school. Check out a few of our favorite back-to-school bouquets below!
  
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• El colombiano que dirige el Jardín Botánico de Nueva York

  01-08-2023 03:05 via nytimes.com
  
  El nombramiento del botánico representa la primera vez que su director científico es de la misma región de la que provienen gran parte de sus colecciones.
  
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• Mauricio Diazgranados Is a Botanist in a Hurry

  31-07-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  For the first time, the New York Botanical Garden has a chief scientist who hails from the same region as so much of its collections.
  
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• Replacing Your Lawn? Try Planting Pawpaw or Persimmon Trees

  26-07-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Or just start by planting a few pawpaw or persimmon trees. Chances are, you’ll want more.
  
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• Worms Thriving in the Arctic

  14-07-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The unexpected presence of earthworms in the Far North could cause rapid changes in some of the planet’s most fragile ecosystems.
  
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• How to Plant a Miniature Succulent and Alpine Garden

  12-07-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  They may not be the showiest thing on the patio, but these miniature landscapes inevitably take center stage: “It’s about being in Lilliputian land.”
  
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• At Stoneleigh, Landscaping With Native Plants Is Possible

  05-07-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  If you can create a native garden that looks at home on the grounds of a historic Philadelphia Main Line estate, you can do it anywhere.
  
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• Corporate Landscaping Opts for Native Plants Over Manicured Lawns

  04-07-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  More companies are eschewing manicured grass in favor of native plants, a shift driven by the environmental costs of installing and maintaining lawns.
  
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• Lorraine Toussaint on Living in Hudson Valley After Fire Burned Her Malibu Home

  04-07-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  After losing her California home in the 2018 wildfires, the actress bought an early-19th-century farmhouse near Rhinebeck, N.Y.
  
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• Joseph Pedott, 91, Dies; Made Chia Pets an ‘as Seen on TV’ Sensation

  30-06-2023 20:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The commercials he created, with their “ch-ch-ch-Chia” jingle, became as much a vivid part of American consumer life as the goofy product they sold.
  
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• Summer Wedding Flower Trends

  28-06-2023 20:51 via flowershopnetwork.com
  
  Summer is full of bright and bold colors, and wedding flowers are no exception! From bouquets to reception flowers and everything in between, we've highlighted some of our favorite summer wedding trends.
  
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• How to Make Clematis Flowers Last All Season

  28-06-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Because there’s no such thing as too much Clematis, here’s how to get a little more — and make it last a little longer.
  
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• The Nature of Joy

  26-06-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  We all exist in a magnificent, fragile body, beautiful and vulnerable at once.
  
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• Book Review: ‘Planta Sapiens,’ by Paco Calvo

  23-06-2023 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Planta Sapiens,” Paco Calvo addresses our “plant blindness.”
  
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• How to Make Your Walk a ‘Microadventure’

  23-06-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Start small, look up and let your nose guide you.
  
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