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Flower Power Rides Again

John Friel

Is there another field where art and science are so inextricable?

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Beaks & Bucks

John Friel

Gardeners hang up their gloves in fall, but birders know no season.

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Wet Enough For Ya?

John Friel

Recently departed and utterly unmourned, our 2018 was not a normal year. Had the Times Square New Year’s ball dropped here instead, it would’ve splashed down like an Apollo capsule.

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True Colors: Whose Hues to Choose?

John Friel

We are, increasingly, slaves to color, and influencers everywhere pay rapt attention to what new hues spew from the world’s paint guns, looms, cosmetics mills and kilns.

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Armchair Botanizing

John Friel

Each group has this in common: They really know their plants.

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Speaking of Speaking

John Friel

Redundancy isn’t just for NASA: If multiple speakers highlight the same plant, maybe it’ll stick.

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A Tale of Many Cities

John Friel

Tradeshows will only become unnecessary when the only conversations are between giant companies.

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Retroactive Greening

John Friel

The creation of great beauty isn’t always pretty.

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Hashing It Out

John Friel

Online and offline aren't discrete entities. They’re inseparable structural members of reality’s whole.

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Brand Unconsciousness

John Friel

Last month I visited several retailers, chains and independents … branded plants outnumbered non-branded by a landslide.