Topic: Central Europe

Chinese holly may be cultivated in USDA zones 7 to 9, where it makes a suitable privacy screen, specimen plant or formal garden hedge. Prague Viburnum A member of the honeysuckle family, Prague viburnum (Viburnum x pragense) is a flowering shrub that ...
Brogdale Farm is the home to The National Fruit Collection - one of the largest fruit collections in the world, now managed by The University of Reading - and a significant visitors' attraction in Kent, England in its own right. Brogdale is ...
Recently, the Dutch Flower Council announced that the organization of the world's major flower consumption in 24 countries (mainly European countries, as well as the United States and Japan) and cut spending forecasts 22 countries (excluding the United States, Japan) potted consumption ...

Great Plant Catalogs -- Two Seedy Top Picks

Ever since Lehman Brothers bought the farm and folks discovered to their horror that they couldn't ALL be millionaires, interest in growing flavorful, healthful vegetables in the backyard has skyrocketed --especially since nobody can afford to hire someone to do it for ...

Black Spots On Tomatoes Explained..

This affection happens sometimes to your tomatoes, and it's really frustrating, especially when you've placed lots of hard work and love into your plants only to see these ugly black dots arise right under of your tomatoes.It's called: blossom end rot, or ...

THE SHARP END

A cartoon related to the legal industry is presented. WWW.THELAWYER.COM TULKINGHORN 21 TULKINGHORN Contributions welcome (in confidence of course)The lawyer. com Bog squatter Tulkinghorn was recently called in for an emergency summit with Herbert Smith finance partner Clive iJarnard, having pointed out ...

Pepper

pepper, also called Garden Pepper, (Capsicum), any of a great number of plants of the nightshade family, Solanaceae, notably Capsicum annuum, C. frutescens, and C. boccatum, extensively cultivated throughout tropical Asia and equatorial America for their edible, pungent fruits. Pepper seeds were ...

Hungarian carpenter serves Pope on throne

Master carpenter Arpad Rostas would like the pope to sit on his chair: a high, gilded throne carved out of oak with a pair of angels, the coats of arms of Hungary and the Catholic Church and a poem by Rostas himself. ...