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How can a floral clock be made accurate enough to replace normal timekeeping?

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A village is famous for its flowers and wants to bring in tourism by replacing its timekeeping and basing everything around a flower clock. Schools and shops all agree to set their times by the flower clock and a webcam image of it is streamed across the village for everyone to see what time it is.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/garden/planting-a-clock-that-tracks-hours-by-flowers.html?_r=0

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How do they make the flower clock both accurate enough for regular use and usable in all seasons? They are in a mild temperate climate so there is some seasonal variation in temperature but rarely frost. Ideally this should be as natural as possible but some technological assistance is allowed.

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