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TheMulch.com Includes Botanical Art on New Website

Posted in Blog News, gardening, tagged on June 21, 2010 | Comments Off

We first learned about the wonderful resources at TheMulch.com during EE Week in April. Since then, this extensive resource for gardeners has established a new home on the Web. The site is now faster and incorporates great social media tools for its gardening community. Mulch members now have the ability to incorporate their Twitter accounts [...]

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Create a Garden As Nature Intended

Posted in Special Announcements, gardening, tagged , , on June 21, 2010 | Comments Off

The Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanical Garden will launch its second permaculture design course in October. This is a certificate course and participants will become certified permaculture designers upon completing the 72-hour course. This program provides a practical, project-oriented, hands-on learning experience and goes beyond mere theory. This certificate course is taught by permaculturist [...]

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Watercolor for Kids, Growing Native Plants

Posted in Learning Opportunities, Photography, botanical art, gardening, tagged , , on June 7, 2010 | Comments Off

Updated information at Classes Near You > California: Julie Schneider Ljubenkov, Art Nature Education www.artnatureeducation.com Julie is an artist, author, educator, naturalist, and native plant consultant. Read the Summer 2010 issue of Julie’s Art & Nature Newsletter to learn more Julie, her limited edition prints, and her projects. Watercolor Painting for Kids – Friday afternoons; [...]

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Need subjects for new plant studies? Checkout this plant sale.

Posted in Special Announcements, Special Events, gardening, tagged , on May 20, 2010 | Comments Off

The Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden is having a HUGE plant sale on Memorial Day weekend. They are selling off a HUGE amount of overstock at 30-50% off. Sale plants include cacti, succulents, flowering shrubs & trees, plants from the nursery and the greenhouses, specialty plants, and plants donated by Monrovia Nursery for [...]

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A Gardener’s Journal Includes History of Plant Exploration, Conservatories, & Gardening

Posted in ArtPlantae Books, gardening, tagged , , , on May 6, 2010 | Comments Off

Paradise Under Glass: An Amateur Creates a Conservatory Garden is the true story of an award-winning author’s transformation into an avid gardener after a spontaneous visit to the U.S. Botanic Garden Conservatory in Washington, DC during a time marked by personal loss and midlife changes. Ruth Kassinger shares the ups and downs of her journey [...]

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Cornell Announces Online Botanical Art Classes for Summer

Posted in Learning Opportunities, botanical art, botanical illustration, gardening, tagged , on April 26, 2010 | Comments Off

Go to summer school at home! New classes at Classes Near You > New York: Cornell University Department of Horticulture http://hort.cals.cornell.edu/ Two six-week botanical illustration classes are taught online through this department. A course syllabus for each class is available online. Click on the links below for complete details. Botanical Illustration I: Basic Drawing Techniques [...]

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Rain Garden Reduces Water Runoff to Pacific Ocean

Posted in Education, Special Articles & Interviews, Special Events, gardening, tagged , , , on April 16, 2010 | Comments Off

Authentic Passion Caitlin Bergman knows permaculture. She lives it, she feels it, and she shares her authentic passion with others in her role as designer, instructor, and lead permaculturist at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden. The enthusiasm Caitlin exudes for her subject couldn’t possibly exist in a purer form. Caitlin “does permaculture [...]

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California Horticulture Past & Present

Posted in Education, gardening, general botany, herbarium, tagged , , , , on April 15, 2010 | Comments Off

The Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden is more than a research facility for academics. It is an outdoor classroom for the general public. Look beyond the garden’s beautiful 86 acres of California native plants, and you will find a research library and a calendar full of learning opportunities for the public to enjoy. RSA Library [...]

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Restoration Project Creates Waterwise Landscape & An Artist’s Playground

Posted in Special Articles & Interviews, botanical illustration, gardening, tagged , , , on April 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Reginald Durant is the undeniable force behind Back To Natives Restoration, a 501(c)3 service learning organization dedicated to the teaching of ecological concepts through hands-on learning. He is seriously passionate about his work and has created an impressive organization demonstrating the value of native plant communities, hands-on learning, and community involvement. Durant stresses, however, that [...]

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A Tool for All Garden-based Learning Programs

Posted in Education, Special Articles & Interviews, gardening, tagged , , on April 12, 2010 | Comments Off

If your school has a schoolyard garden, you need to know about TheMulch.com. TheMulch.com is more than a website with a list of links to other websites. It is an online community of horticulturists, landscape architects, garden writers, radio talk show hosts, garden-related businesses, and gardeners who willingly share years of gardening experience with each [...]

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A Preview of EE Week at ArtPlantae

Posted in Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events, botanical art, botanical illustration, gardening, sketchbook, tagged on March 25, 2010 | Comments Off

ArtPlantae is excited to participate as a national partner in National Environmental Education Week (EE Week). Blending the theme for EE Week (Be Water and Energy Wise) with botany and botanical art education has been a rewarding experience. So many people have given their time to participate in the event. There will be so much [...]

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A Writing Class for Artists & Gardeners

Posted in Learning Opportunities, gardening, tagged , on November 30, 2009 | Comments Off

New at CLASSES NEAR YOU > CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Gardens www.arboretum.org What Julie and Julia Have To Do With You: A One-Day Writing Workshop January 23, 2010 10 AM – 2:30 PM Cost: $60 members / $65 non-members (includes a copy of Paula Panich’s book, Cultivating Words: The Guide to Writing [...]

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