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The Plant hunter and The Millennium Seed Bank Project
Thursday 24, April 2008 - BBC
A series of narrated stills showing the progress of Michael
Way across Chile as he searches for seeds for the Kew
Garden's Wakehurst Place Millennium Seed Bank.
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World's oldest tree that took root 10,000 years ago
Friday 18, April 2008 - The Daily Mail
The world's oldest tree has been found - 9,550 years after
taking root. The spruce began growing in central Sweden
shortly after the Ice Age and is still going strong.
Researchers carbon-dated genetic material to suggest it
hails from 7,542BC.
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Nurseries to provide new attraction for Harrogate Flower
Show
Monday 24, March 2008 - The Yorkshire Post
The thousands of visitors who flock to this year's Harrogate
Spring Flower Show will have several new features to enjoy
including some more adventurous displays in the main halls. |
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Made in China
Sunday August 19, 2007 - The Sunday Times
Jane Kilpatrick explains how many plants have reached the
UK's shores over the last 300 years.
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Titan arum's finest hour at Eden
Monday February 5, 2007 - The Mail
The world's largest and probably smelliest flower is in its
final hours of full bloom and pungent odour before it
reaches its tallest height and dies.
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Climate change brings butterfly invasion
Saturday January 6, 2007 - The Times
The number of butterfly and moth species migrating to
Britain for the summer has increased fourfold in the past 25
years, researchers have found.... |
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Scientists grow plants from 200-year-old seeds
Wednesday September 20, 2006 - Daily Mail
Seed scientists from the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst
Place, the Royal Botanic Gardens site in West Sussex have
planted a few seeds from 32 different species of seeds found
in 40 small packets. The seeds were stored in a red
leather-bound notebook within files held at The National
Archives and collected during a trip to the Cape of Good
Hope in 1803.... |
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Britain's countryside is losing hundreds of its species
Saturday June 24, 2006 - Independent
The vanishing rate is scarcely believable. Well over 200
British insect species have become extinct in the past 50
years, while some counties are seeing a species of
wildflower disappear nearly every year.... |
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Gardeners can slow climate change
Sunday June 11, 2006 - Guardian Unlimited
Britain's gardeners are being asked to open up their
borders, lawns and shrubs to help tackle the world's
greatest environmental threat... |
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God's own county
Firday June 2, 2006 - Guardian Unlimited
North Yorkshire has just been voted the most beautiful
county in England. It's better than that, says bestselling
author GP Taylor - it's paradise on earth...
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