what upsets people about plants, a selection of News items gathered on May 29, 2008:
GM crops banned in Switzerland until 2012
top chefs say no to GM foods
Fed report climate threats to crops and harvesting.
diesel prices tipped affect winter crops
marijuana growing in Coolidge.
snack cucumber prices rise 90% in Turkey
vandalism to school garden
marines and Taliban cash crops
Chelsea flower show, rarest blooms tied up with red ribbon.
greenhouse sabotage shocks Carolina grower.
invasive plants in Pembroke
Iowa crops expected to survive tornado damage.
invasion of foreign flowers costs Britain 2bn a year
Balchik botanical garden dispute solved after years
Glasgow garden to commemorate war tragedy
as food prices shoot up so do backyard gardens according to National Gardening Association.
Dutch busdrivers go on back-garden-strikes.
San Jose police arrest peeping Tom suspect in bushes.
14 year old raped in bushes.
Manitoba forest fire evacuation
Petition against Canadian Forest minister.
Dutch firm strengthens its hold on Congo forest.
Relief for boy and dog after night lost in forest.
carbon credit could help develop congo.
Minneapolis grave robbers are going for the flowers.
Tree kills 13 year old girl in Huddersfield park
Golf cart hits tree, 3-foot branch impales man rushed into Hennepin County medical center.
three injured when tree hits theme-park trolley
tree near Route 97 light construction to be removed.
Maple Leaf Community Council fights Town house developer who wants to cut down trees.
The owner of 200 acres in Vicksburg says a logging company cut down 1oo trees and tried to steel them.
Wadena trees have insect problem.
A millionaire businessman (carwash king) threatened to break the neck of a gardener and threw handfuls of rocks at him while he chopped down a dead tree on his neighbour's property.
An Omaha man said a court forced him to cut a tree in half after a neighbor complained that it was damaging his lawn.
Crushed property. We're talking about a tree on the 300 block of Batavia in the Old West End. It fell on his property during a storm, and it's still there.
Swedish Spruce is world's oldest tree.
Too much tree felling say Upper Norwood residents.
Planted rose hips cause overpopulation of white-footed mice and deer.
Overgrown shrubs on memorial.
A gardening body is warning it may have to take legal action if Wales' growing demand for allotments is not met.
Allotment holders forced off their plots to make way for the Olympics have claimed the land in Leyton provided as a replacement is unusable.
Brown grass is spoiling beauty of Balboa Park's west side
Southaven Residentes Fed Up With Unsightly, Overgrown Grass
Bad pitch ruins Champions-league final.
