Remove Cute English Hanging Baskets, Save the Planet?

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The politicians of Harrow, a borough of Northwest London, say banning the (to some) quintessentially English flower baskets in the town center as well as replacing seasonal flower beds with less water-needy shrubs will help save water, land and money, The Evening Standard reports. If Harrow’s flower-basket-removal plans go through, will they catch on in the rest of England? And will the English and hanging-basket-loving Anglophiles around the world see the move as environmentally responsible or culturally obscene?

Via TreeHugger

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