Houston Chronicle - It can be recycled as protective mulch for flower beds or beach-erosion control. "We call it 'closing the loop,' " said Gary Readore, of Houston's Solid Waste Management Department. "We're turning discarded trees into a usable product for our citizens
Herald Tribune - woman, possibly one of the victims, struck a match to light a votive candle near a 350-square-foot (32.5-square-meter) shrine made of lattice, florist paper, butcher paper and Christmas lights. The matchhead broke off, landed on a paper flower and
Norwich Bulletin - A wooden cross with mylar balloons and flower bouquets has been placed at the tree at 295 Wauregan Road. State police with Troop D are investigating the accident. Wauregan road residents Debby Spendolini and Peg Hull, neighbors with homes in front of
1960 Sun - David Flower, a distinguished leader within the Assemblies of God and also a son of the founder of Valley Forge Christian College. Most of the VFCC part of the "Celebration of Service" centered on the past 30 years while the college has been on this
San Gabriel Valley Tribune - When the days cool off, it's time to plant. Instead of packing 200 tulips into a flower bed all by themselves, van der Kloet likes to use fewer bulbs in mixed beds, placing the tulips, daffodils and other bulbs carefully among perennial plants and
Gay Wired - Charlemagne: This charming 32-passenger vessel begins her season on the waterways of Holland during the flower-filled spring and then explores Germany s delightful waterways. In the Moselle Valley, she winds her way between Koblenz and Metz, a
Allentown Morning Call - In the last couple of years she cut back to selling flowers just on holidays except Christmas ''because she sang in the choir,'' said Catherine Grubbs of the Starr Flower Co. in Bath. Houx was also active in the community. She was vice president of
Newsday - We're warm right now, so that's good," said David Watkins, a parent accompanying a youth group from Trietsch Memorial Methodist Church in Flower Mound, Texas, en route to Crested Butte for an annual ski trip. Greyhound canceled all trips out of
Houston Chronicle - Peacock and hidden gingers disappear in late fall, leaving room in winter flower beds for cool-weather annuals such as primroses and cyclamen. The gingers' rested roots will send up new growth when spring sounds her alarm about the time those
Sun and Press - If you are a gardener like myself, you can't pass by those end-of-the-season seed sales. What a way to get a jump on next year! I also frequently do not use all of the seeds in a packet. After all, how many zucchini seeds do you have to plant