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A Fight Over Petunia Look-alikes
Gardening ▶ A German breeder says a U.S. distributor stole its bloom ▶ “People are not gardening the way they used to”
The flower industry is about beauty and fragrance. It’s also filled with intellectual-property theft, backbiting, and deceit. That’s what German plant breeder Westhoff Vertriebsgesellschaft claims it has