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1. Bizarre plant of the month is, believe it or not a citrus - the buddha's hand citron ( Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis ), native to China. There isn't much flesh on the fingers, but the fruits are harvested for their aromatic zest, or candied...
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1. With parks budgets under strain, could this , from Berlin -based designer Fabian Brunsing, provide some much-needed revenue? 2. The Australian -designed Wunda Weeder "enables planting, thining, weeding, transplanting or harvesting of row crop...
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See what I've done with the title there? Made it topical. The search engines are bound to pick it up. 1. Appropriately a South African one first, and next in our weird plants theme is the umbrella thorn tree ( Acacia tortilis ) - widespread (and wide...
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1. It's an unusual brief for a landscape architect, but Apple executive Jeff Dauber said of the design for his minimalist San Francisco back garden : "I wanted someone to barf when they look at it." Though completely flat, the surface appears...
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It's the modern hack's lot to have to spend a lot of time online, and fortunately the standard of horticulture's websites has improved considerably in recent years. But there are still a few that rankle like a mouse that's on the blink...
