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The $7,000 question: Flowers or food? (Kingston Daily Freeman)
ALLABEN - The Shandaken Town Board this week mulled over the latest attempt to create a conflict-free plan for maintaining flowers in the hamlet of Phoenicia's business district, but the changing times prompted one audience member at the meeting to suggest the $7,000 needed for the program might be better spent helping needy local families put food on the table.

Des Plaines keeps it real with flowers (Des Plaines Times)
Real, live, fragrant flowers will fill the hanging baskets in Des Plaines next year -- not phony silk imitations.

FORGET THE FLOWERS (Orlando Weekly)
Choose these food-themed alternatives to the hackneyed flowers, facials and restaurant dinners to truly show her that out of all of her positive character traits, creativity was the one you channeled most.

Something wonderful, flowers at the fair (Ravalli Republic)
There?s something wonderful about flowers. It may be their soft, sweet scent or the perfect regime of color. It may be the wonder involved in appreciating something so simple from nature.

Nature's Stress-busters: Flowers (Carteret County News-Times)
(ARA) - Feeling a little stressed? Need an energy boost? Buy some flowers. Taking the time to stop and smell the roses this summer could do more than you think.

The Garden Life: Keep flowers coming through fall (The Columbian)
This is the time of year to give roses, flowering perennials and annual planting beds one last seasonal treatment of fertilizer. It takes energy to produce flowers, especially here where we can plan on color and flower production through autumn.

A Photographer's Passion Reaches Full Bloom (Washington Post)
A podiatrist in New Jersey by day, Jonathan Singer spends his free time photographing rare flowers. His pièce de résistance -- "Botanica Magnifica," of which there will be 10 copies -- is a five-volume, double-elephant folio with 250 exquisite, intensely colored images. The first copy, which the ...

Donated silk flowers will brighten 10th Street Bridge (Great Falls Tribune)
Loretta Doran Day has brightened up the refurbished north portion of the 10th Street Bridge with silk flowers.

How to get another bloom from spent flowers (Dallas Morning News)
With fall approaching, annual flowers draw nearer to the end of their blooming lives. But by deadheading spent flowers, you may be able to squeeze some extra blooms from your plants.

Extend the life of your flowers indoors with some easy techniques (Detroit News)
The days are getting shorter and the nights a little cooler. Before long, all that's left in your garden will fade and sleep until the warmth of next spring's sun. Before it's too late, bring some blooms indoors to be enjoyed.