April 30, 2009

Yerba Buena Gardens: King fountain, and more – San Francisco Chronicle

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Yerba Buena Gardens: King fountain, and more
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
Yerba Buena Gardens The calm scene of San Franciscans sunning themselves and snoozing on the green meadow belies the controversy that once swirled around the creation of Yerba Buena Gardens. The gardens are part of the Yerba Buena Center, …

Source:Yerba Buena Gardens: King fountain, and more – San Francisco Chronicle

URA, NParks introduce schemes to promote more sky gardens in S'pore – Channel News Asia

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Straits Times
URA, NParks introduce schemes to promote more sky gardens in S'pore
Channel News Asia, Singapore
By Timothy Ouyang, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 29 April 2009 1841 hrs The government wants to see more sky terraces and rooftop gardens, as part of a multi-billion dollar sustainable development blueprint for Singapore for the next 20 years. …
More 'sky gardens' soon Straits Times
Singapore To Green Up Tall Buildings Bernama
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Source:URA, NParks introduce schemes to promote more sky gardens in S'pore – Channel News Asia

Families' big talk at Gardens – Lancashire Evening Post

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Families' big talk at Gardens
Lancashire Evening Post, UK
Ann Jamieson from project leaders the Big Wide Talk, based at Morecambe Winter Gardens, said the money would allow the Morecambe Theatre of Learning to be held in the Winter Gardens. She said: "It will be a spectacular event enabling children and their …
Winter Gardens campaigners' plea The Visitor
Revived Winter Gardens offers a timely boost The Visitor
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Source:Families' big talk at Gardens – Lancashire Evening Post

Council housing firm slammed after concreting front garden – Hornsey and Crouch End Journal

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Hornsey and Crouch End Journal
Council housing firm slammed after concreting front garden
Hornsey and Crouch End Journal, UK
HARINGEY'S council housing firm has been blasted for ignoring green values and concreting over a front garden of a house it refurbished. Councillor Lyn Weber (Liberal Democrat, Crouch End) says the huge grey slab is in a front garden in leafy Crouch …

Source:Council housing firm slammed after concreting front garden – Hornsey and Crouch End Journal

Meredith posts lower quarterly profit on ad decline – guardian.co.uk

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Meredith posts lower quarterly profit on ad decline
guardian.co.uk, UK
Meredith, publisher of Better Homes and Gardens and the Ladies' Home Journal, said fiscal third-quarter net income was $25.4 million, or 56 cents a share, compared with $46.1 million, or 97 cents a share, a year ago. Publishing ad revenue fell 12 …
Meredith posts 45 percent drop in 3Q profit BusinessWeek
Meredith's Half-Full Outlook: Ad Spending Ain't Getting Worse Barron’s Blogs
paidContent.org – Earnings: Meredith Profits Plunge 45 Percent … Washington Post
Zacks.com - Seeking Alpha
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Source:Meredith posts lower quarterly profit on ad decline – guardian.co.uk

April 29, 2009

World's smelliest flowers about to bloom at Kew Gardens – Telegraph.co.uk

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China Daily
World's smelliest flowers about to bloom at Kew Gardens
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
Visitors to Kew Gardens are being advised to keep their distance when the world's smelliest flowers come into bloom this week. By Sarah Knapton The Titan Arum emits the stench of rotting flesh, an odour so stomach-churning that it is colloquially known …
World's smelliest flower whiffs at Kew NewsLite
Two of the world's smelliest flowers are about to bloom China Daily
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Source:World's smelliest flowers about to bloom at Kew Gardens – Telegraph.co.uk

Birmingham Botanical Gardens hosts Tai Chi event – BirminghamMail.net

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Birmingham Botanical Gardens hosts Tai Chi event
BirminghamMail.net, UK
As Birmingham Botanical Gardens, in Westbourne Road, Edgbaston, was bathed in lovely weekend sunshine, dozens of people decided to have a go at the not too strenuous Chinese martial art of Tai Chi. The main lawn at the botanical gardens was given over …

Source:Birmingham Botanical Gardens hosts Tai Chi event – BirminghamMail.net

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