Casa blanca lilies, for example, are "a big, beautiful flower that's amazing but is sometimes overbearing, " he says.

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We also saw a beautiful solar powered flower sprout in Southern California and looked at the worlds first solar-powered soccer ball, which could help the blind play soccer.

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