Escorted by a master gardener, guests can stroll through flower and plant fields in the nearby village of Gourdon.

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Check out the plant and flower stalls before heading to one of the many outdoor cafes along the pedestrian street adjacent to the market.

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In New Zealand Scion Research works to convert the waste stream from pulp and paper processing into a blend of microbial cell wall debris and plastic called polyhydroxyalkanoate, or PHA. Plant a PHA flower pot into the ground and and it biodegrades.

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Juwi said it had made efforts to consult households, adding it planned to screen the site, plant wild flower meadows and graze sheep in the area.

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Yet on increasingly common occasions, local governments and landowners have actually legitimized some of the illegal flower patches, granting their gardeners permission to plant them and thus rendering them no longer guerrilla.

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But bamboo is something of a tragic plant -- it only flower once in its lifetime -- and the Jiuzhai Valley bamboo flowered and died in the 1980s, depriving pandas of the food that makes up 99% of their diet.

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The echinacea sold in drugstores comes in a wide range of liquids, pills, powders, and tinctures, which can be derived from some combination of the plant's root, flower, or stem.

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