You find that you get addicted to the plants.

I suggest that gardeners plant both types of plants. Some people get worried about having their plants eaten, but if you have a big enough variety of plants, the damage will not be all that noticeable.

We have enough dirty coal plants, and we do need to look for alternatives. No matter how you stack it up, power plants are still the major provider of particles in the air, which cause many health problems.

I am partial to plants that I can use. The herb garden affords a big palette to play with.

It's also called taiga. We've had people from Sweden here who recognized the plants, and naturalists from Russia ? their language was limited, but they could throw around the Latin names, so we had a common language.

There are only about 4,000 marine-plant species compared with an estimated 250,000 species of terrestrial green plants. Similarly, of the 1.7 million-or-so known animal species, only about one-tenth are from oceans, with most of these living on or close to the bottom in relatively shallow water.