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For most of us, our eyes react this way due to a sophisticated self-protection system in these allium plants.Jutta Papenbrock, a professor at the Institute for Botany at Leibniz University Hanover, ...

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Daffodils are flowering everywhere at the moment, but nowhere do they grow in such great profusion as at the Backhouse Rossie Estate in Fife.

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Planting one thing beside roses can help them grow to be healthy and more colourful flowers, and it tastes delicious.