Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leaving Los Angeleswas merely a hoax. "Since the public has a short memory, we decided to play one last prank to remind them who we are," reads a letter sent to The New York Times and authenticated by the FBI last night. "But, no, we haven't tried to plant a bomb on an airline (recently)." His joke was lost on the state of California, where thousands of postal workers continued to comb through parcels, diverting most airmail packages to ground delivery, while wary airline passengers were forced to stand in long lines and present identification. Los Angeles International Airport...
...Angeles was just a hoax. "Since the public has a short memory, we decided to play one last prank to remind them who we are," reads a letter sent to The New York Times and authenticated by the FBI last night. "But, no, we haven't tried to plant a bomb on an airline (recently)." The serial mail bomber,who since 1978 has mailed or planted 16 package bombs that killed three people and injured 22, also offered an apology of sorts for the past:"We don't think it is necessary for us to do any public soul-searching...
People who are restoring old houses want old plants -- the heirloom varieties. Nativist gardeners are looking to plant only native plants, nothing that would not have been here before the colonists arrived. Herb gardeners can choose from 10 different kinds of basil, including licorice. Others want to plant "wild gardens" that are designed to provide food for critters. And there are ways to make more critters part of natural dacor: the Sharper Image catalog offers three different sizes of bat houses built of red cedar. The company claims each bat will consume up to 600 mosquitoes an hour; the biggest...
...largest gardening magazine in the world, with 800,000 subscribers. "It will say, 'If you buy this whole set it will give you a 14-ft. by 22-ft. garden to go in front of a shady wall. You will have color throughout the season, and if you plant it according to the diagram, your higher plants will be in the back and the lower ones will be in the front and bang-there's your garden...
When the little black bugs eat the bonsai and the fountain fades to a dribble and the water plants are indistinguishable from the algae, the power gardener knows just where to turn. Contrary to their earthy image, gardeners are twice as likely as the general population to own a computer (60%). Next month Sunset Publishing, the Northern California-based book-and-magazine company most noted for its expertise on Western gardening, will release a CD-ROM with the largest encyclopedic plant data base on the market. Ken Winchester says the gardener will be able to type in a ZIP code...