what upsets people about plants, a selection of News items gathered on May 29, 2008:

• GM crops banned in Switzerland until 2012
• top chefs say no to GM foods
• Fed report climate threats to crops and harvesting.
• diesel prices tipped affect winter crops
• marijuana growing in Coolidge.
• snack cucumber prices rise 90% in Turkey
• vandalism to school garden
• marines and Taliban cash crops
• Chelsea flower show, rarest blooms tied up with red ribbon.
• greenhouse sabotage shocks Carolina grower.
• invasive plants in Pembroke
• Iowa crops expected to survive tornado damage.
• invasion of foreign flowers costs Britain 2bn a year
• Balchik botanical garden dispute solved after years
• Glasgow garden to commemorate war tragedy
• as food prices shoot up so do backyard gardens according to National Gardening Association.
• Dutch busdrivers go on back-garden-strikes.
• San Jose police arrest peeping Tom suspect in bushes.
• 14 year old raped in bushes.
• Manitoba forest fire evacuation
• Petition against Canadian Forest minister.
• Dutch firm strengthens its hold on Congo forest.
• Relief for boy and dog after night lost in forest.
• carbon credit could help develop congo.
• Minneapolis grave robbers are going for the flowers.
• Tree kills 13 year old girl in Huddersfield park
• Golf cart hits tree, 3-foot branch impales man rushed into Hennepin County medical center.
• three injured when tree hits theme-park trolley
• tree near Route 97 light construction to be removed.
• Maple Leaf Community Council fights Town house developer who wants to cut down trees.
• The owner of 200 acres in Vicksburg says a logging company cut down 1oo trees and tried to steel them.
• Wadena trees have insect problem.
• A millionaire businessman (carwash king) threatened to break the neck of a gardener and threw handfuls of rocks at him while he chopped down a dead tree on his neighbour's property.
• An Omaha man said a court forced him to cut a tree in half after a neighbor complained that it was damaging his lawn.
• Crushed property. We're talking about a tree on the 300 block of Batavia in the Old West End. It fell on his property during a storm, and it's still there.
• Swedish Spruce is world's oldest tree.
• Too much tree felling say Upper Norwood residents.
• Planted rose hips cause overpopulation of white-footed mice and deer.
• Overgrown shrubs on memorial.
• A gardening body is warning it may have to take legal action if Wales' growing demand for allotments is not met.
• Allotment holders forced off their plots to make way for the Olympics have claimed the land in Leyton provided as a replacement is unusable.
• Brown grass is spoiling beauty of Balboa Park's west side
• Southaven Residentes Fed Up With Unsightly, Overgrown Grass
• Bad pitch ruins Champions-league final.