Plants Improve Air By Trapping Dust
The article explains how green plant life reduces air pollution by trapping dust on leaf surfaces and washing pollutants into the ground. It notes cities with planted areas show lower dust counts and urges parks, landscaping, and trees along streets, malls, and freeways to improve healthful air, with homeowners encouraged to plant trees for cleaner air and community benefit.
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Los Angeles
Robert F Lederer
American Association of Nurserymen
Soil Bugs On Your Side For Lawn Health
Soil organisms nitrify nitrogen to help fertilize bluegrass fescue or bentgrass while others decompose thatch and prey on pests. These hidden allies keep balance on natural soil that pavement or artificial turf cannot provide.
Ground covers for erosion and spring garden ideas
Ground covers can stabilize slopes and add year round color with species like golden poppies portulacas lily of the valley epimediums and mandrakes. Till soil add humus and fertilizer, lay bands to prevent erosion, plant myrtle pachysandra cotoneaster horizon ital is and daffodils, crocus, or bulbs, plus two foot crown vetch on steep banks.
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South
Middle Atlantic
Garden Encyclopedia Showcases 9000 Plant Listings and Ages
The piece highlights Dr. Donald Wyman and his Gardening Encyclopedia listing over 9,000 plants with scientific names and growing tips. Notable aged specimens include a Pennsylvania box huckleberry possibly 13,000 years old and the Grandad bristlecone pine at about 7,100 years. The work credits 22 contributing experts and mentions major historic trees and awards.
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Pennsylvania
Juanita River
Virginia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Donald Wyman
Harvard University
Arnold Arboretum
Wyman
United States
California
Colorado
Arizona
Sequoia National Park
Maria de Tule
Oaxaca
Mexico
Nature Printing Is A Lost Art
The article traces nature printing from ancient Tahitians to Renaissance Italians and colonial Americans, reaching a peak in mid-19th century Vienna with herbals printed from lead plates, and explains that photography soon ended its prominence, leaving only fingerprints as indispensable proof of the technique.
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Vienna
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