Detroit Free Press Marty Hair Gardening column: GARDEN PLOT: Think local when buying cut flowers.

From: Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) | Date: February 10, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Marty Hair

Feb. 10--It's almost Feb. 14. Do you know where your cut flowers and potted plants will be coming from? More fresh flowers will be purchased for Valentine's Day than for any other holiday, according to the Society of American Florists. And many of those cut flowers will be traveling thousands of miles from South America, Europe and Africa. It's an issue that affects the environment and local flower growers. One politician in Great Britain, where there's already a movement to support locally grown vegetables, is trying to encourage a similar ...

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