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To: shades who wrote (54036)7/30/2006 10:07:30 AM
From: regli  Respond to of 116555
 
"... Did Russia have access to the agriculture we have? My croation friend said no - that is why they fell and we thrive - awesome naturual resources in the USA and lots of food ..."

This may change sooner than most think:

news.independent.co.uk
"...
Pineapples take root in civil servants' favourite park

Britain's top mandarins - and spies - are in for a shock as they take their habitual stroll round St James's Park in London. For, as the heatwave blazes on, gardeners are uprooting traditional begonias and geraniums and planting pineapples and rubber trees instead.

The Royal Parks Agency is planting the tropical species for the first time ever in some particularly dry beds next to Oliver Peyton's lakeside café, Inn the Park, where the establishment relives its nursery days by breakfasting on soft-boiled eggs and soldiers.

Dennis Clarke, the agency's head of park services, says: "British gardeners have always experimented by trying out new plants. We are not planning to replace every plant in the Royal Parks with tropical species, but we are evolving as the climate changes."


And yesterday:

More than 60 percent of U.S. in drought

news.yahoo.com