Just sixty miles off the coast of the Sahara, Lanzarote is a dry little island, with six to eight inches...
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Pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana), a plume grass from the pampas of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, has been a popular specimen...
Interest in urban tree-planting programs is at an all-time high today as politicians and members of the public alike jump...
Over two thousand years ago Hippocrates used the name origanum, which comes from the Greek oreos (mountain) and ganeos (beauty...
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Western observers are so impressed by the beauty, exoticism, and precise maintenance of the Japanese garden that they rarely attempt...
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