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Beau Beau's next gig

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H. Marc Cathey's involvement with horticulture began while sitting with his grandmother and reading the Burpee seed catalogue. His multi-faceted career includes pioneering work in plant development using light and chemicals. Under Cathey's leadership from 1980 to 1990, the National Arboretum expanded its role as a science station to include the development of eight public gardens. He plans to create a plant heat-zone map in association with the American Horticultural Society.

Officials and employees, Behavior, Horticulturists, American Horticultural Society, National Arboretum, Cathey, H. Marc

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Above-average medians

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Coronodo, California won the 1998 Urban Beautification Award from the American Horticultural Society for turning its downtown median strips into decorative gardens. The community's Downtown Task Force was formed in 1988 to improve the depressed downtown area, and has become the nonprofit Coronado MainStreet Ltd. Located across the bay from San Diego, the city's temperate climate supports a wide variety of ornamental and flowering plants.

Public works, Achievements and awards, Maintenance and repair, Coronado, California, Urban beautification, Median strips

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The worm turns

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Worms are both a blessing and a curse for plants. Gardeners and farmers in the US are being encouraged to use worms to keep their soils aerated, neutralized and fertile, and worms also provide a natural means of creating compost. Native woodlands in parts of Europe, however, are being threatened by non-native worms that their ecosystem can not support.

Analysis, Innovations, Platyhelminthes, Flatworms, Worms, Worms (Animals), Soil aeration

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