Hovering around city parks and flower beds are masked bees, miner bees, mason bees, plasterer bees, cuckoo bees, leafcutter bees, horned bees, and at least 49 species of sweat bees.

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Checkpoints were still visible in parts of the city, as were flower memorials set up near the marathon finish line, where three people suffered fatal wounds and more than 170 were injured.

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At Le Domaine de Manon, outside of the Grasse city limits, tours of flower fields are given during the harvest, which is generally May for roses and August through mid-October for jasmine.

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The 2010 garden will go on view at Roundhay Park alongside Leeds City Council's 2009 Chelsea Flower Show entry which won the silver gilt flora award.

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Spend your thyme in this energetic city with visits to temples and a flower market, followed by a private boat excursion on the famed canals.

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Finishing touches are now being made to Leeds City Council's entry for the 2011 Chelsea Flower Show which starts on 24 May.

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By latest count, about 250 species of native bees are known to nest in sidewalk cracks, traffic median strips, parks, and high-rise balcony flower pots more perhaps than any other major city in the world, several entomologists said.

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Braulio Collado, a 49-year-old Manhattan flower vendor who lives in the Bronx, said the leading Democratic candidates, such as City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, had flaws.

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