The Garden Guru: Fan flower spilling over with personality
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Jimmy Turner at the Dallas Arboretum is about the best at showcasing color, and says his prominent pots all have "thrillers" (upright, often spike-form plants), "fillers" (usually fine-textured foliar or small-flowering plants that occupy the middles

Tesselaar Plants Helps Rev Up Your Outdoor Living with Easy-Care Plants
PR Web (press release)
The Flower Carpet range of roses, notes Tesselaar, won high marks in the Dallas Arboretum's famous plant trials in extreme heat. The series has also won the most awards for disease-resistance; most notably, Germany's coveted All Deutschland Rose (ADR)

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Chiefs' Flowers ready for life without Carr
Kansas City Star
Then he watched a few months later as the other half of the Chiefs' long-time cornerback tandem, Brandon Carr, received $10 million per year to sign as a free agent with the Dallas Cowboys. The terms of Carr's contract didn't send Flowers scrambling to

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Dallas News | myFOXdfw.comAP source: RFK Jr.'s estranged wife hanged herself
FOX 4 News
On Thursday morning, people who knew the family, and some strangers, as well, dropped by home to leave flowers at the front door. "I think every family has its tragedies. But this is too much. You have to feel for them," said Kim O'Connell, 59,

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Dallas Cowboys: Who Starts At Cornerback?
Cowboys Vs Redskins
Carr played with another good corner in Kansas City, Brandon Flowers. While in KC, Carr was always on the right side of the field while Flowers played the left. The luxury of having two good cornerbacks is that the Chiefs never had to match a corner up

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Free fun for kids in Dallas-Fort Worth, May 18 and beyond
Dallas Morning News (subscription)
THE EMPTY POT The kids of SS Conner Elementary School will perform an original staging of The Empty Pot, Demi's classic Chinese tale about a boy named Ping who loves flowers and always tells the truth. May 19 at 2 pm at Bookmarks, a Dallas public

Children's activities in Dallas-Fort Worth, May 18 and beyond
Dallas Morning News (subscription)
Do a dance around a maypole, learn about the language of flowers and make Victorian tussie-mussies — small, round bouquets of herbs and flowers with symbolic meanings — as Dallas Heritage Village continues its monthly Family Past Times program,

Showdown at Winfrey Point
Dallas Observer
Last week's big battle over a plan to use parkland by White Rock lake as overflow car-parking for the Dallas Arboretum sort of came out of nowhere. I'm sure somebody out there had to be thinking, "What's an arboretum?

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ETX high school student dies following athletics injury
KLTV
The Hawkins Police Department confirms that 15-year-old Jacob Gatlin died at Dallas Children's Hospital Thursday morning. The Dallas County Medical Examiner says Jacob suffered from a fractured skull and subdural hematoma sustained during his athletics

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New generation challenges some blacks in Congress
KEYC TV
AP Sports News Video While studying abroad in Australia, Boston University junior Meg Theriault made sure to send flowers to her mother in Massachusetts before Mother's Day. While studying abroad in Australia, Boston University junior Meg Theriault

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