FORGET THE FLOWERS (Orlando Weekly) Choose these food-themed alternatives to the hackneyed flowers, facials and restaurant dinners to truly show her that out of all of her positive character traits, creativity was the one you channeled most.

The Garden Life: Keep flowers coming through fall (The Columbian) This is the time of year to give roses, flowering perennials and annual planting beds one last seasonal treatment of fertilizer. It takes energy to produce flowers, especially here where we can plan on color and flower production through autumn.

Something wonderful, flowers at the fair (Ravalli Republic) There’s something wonderful about flowers. It may be their soft, sweet scent or the perfect regime of color. It may be the wonder involved in appreciating something so simple from nature.

Des Plaines keeps it real with flowers (Des Plaines Times) Real, live, fragrant flowers will fill the hanging baskets in Des Plaines next year -- not phony silk imitations.

The $7,000 question: Flowers or food? (Kingston Daily Freeman) ALLABEN - The Shandaken Town Board this week mulled over the latest attempt to create a conflict-free plan for maintaining flowers in the hamlet of Phoenicia's business district, but the changing times prompted one audience member at the meeting to suggest the $7,000 needed for the program might be better spent helping needy local families put food on the table.

Trial Opens For Teen Accused Of Killing Charles Flowers Student (NBC4 Washington, D.C.) Opening arguments are held Wednesday in the trial of a teen accused of fatally shooting a Charles Flowers High School student.

Flowers ban at BGH is refuted (Berwickshire Today) A NATIONAL newspaper report that NHS Borders has banned visitors from taking flowers into patients in Borders General Hospital is misleading according to the health trust. (27/08/2008 13:57:02)

No ban on flowers in Borders hospitals, say health chiefs (Borders Today) LOCAL health bosses have quashed media reports that visitors have been banned from bringing flowers for patients into Borders hospitals, writes Mark Entwistle. (28/08/2008)

Flowers Eyes Rangers Cup Run (Goal.com) Flowers and the QPR boss Iain Dowie were the management at Coventry City last season when the Sky Blues dumped Manchester United out of the Carling Cup.

In Bulgaria, pot grows at the heart of power (AFP via Yahoo! News) Bulgaria's campaign against cannabis has gone literally to the doorstep of power, after marijuana plants were found growing amongst the flowers outside government headquarters in Sofia.