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Senior citizens are furious with officials at the Queens Botanical Garden, saying they are being pushed out of the spots they helped cultivate for decades. The cash-strapped organization increased fees for use of its Senior Garden to $150 this year - too steep say many retirees living on a fixed income. It also plans to transform the site to a "Family Garden" next year and open it up to gardeners of all ages. "What they are doing is an act of desperation," said Lola McLinden, a 91-year-old Flushing resident who has grown vegetables at the Senior Garden for 15 years....

N.J. Botanical Garden tests ways to thwart deer Sunday, April 17, 2005 RINGWOOD - One of the main attractions at the New Jersey Botanical Garden, the garden of annual flowers, is edged most of the way around by a pock-marked bare patch where a yew hedge once grew.It's going to cost $13,000 to fill it up with a hedge of the Green Mountain variety of boxwood.If you were to ask why this is necessary, Rich Flynn, landscape designer at Ringwood State Park, which includes the botanical garden as well as Skylands Manor, would look you in the eye and calmly...