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		<title>News Delivery Changes at ArtPlantae Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Hollengold Farm Offers Organic Creations in Botanical Art</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With much excitement and enthusiasm, artist Wendy Hollender announced, &#8220;We bought the farm!&#8221;
Hollengold Farm is a family effort. This family-operated farm is located in Accord, NY and provides Ulster County with organic vegetables, herbs, flowers, and fruit. It also provides botanical artists with inspiring new learning opportunities, thanks to Wendy. Wendy, the founder of WH [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&blog=1347663&post=3604&subd=artplantaetoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Botanical Illustration Courses at Kew</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now posted at Classes Near You &#62; International:

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
www.kew.org

Distance and Detail: Drawing and Painting Plants &#8211; September 14 &#8211; 18. Draw trees, shrubs, or flowers in this class covering the basic techniques of botanical illustration.
Drawing Workshop &#8211; September 8. Outdoor sketching class at Wakehurst Place.

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		<title>New Volume of Prince Charles&#8217; Florilegium Published</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you miss it on Twitter? 
Watch this video about the Prince Charles&#8217; Highgrove Florilegium.
And did you see&#8230;
Prince Charles&#8217; 2nd volume of commissioned paintings at Highgrove is published. http://cfo5y.tk Volume I published in 2008 http://ejfcr.tk

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		<title>2009 Conference of the American Society of Botanical Artists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The conference website for the 15th Annual Meeting &#38; Conference of the American Society of Botanical Artists is now live! 
Hosting the conference this year are the dedicated members of the Southwest Society of Botanical Artists. Conference activities will be held at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, AZ. Conference participants will have the opportunity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&blog=1347663&post=3565&subd=artplantaetoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Ways to Create Botanical Art at The Beth Chatto Gardens</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following information has been posted in Classes Near You &#62; International. Visit this section to learn about upcoming workshops in Canada, England, France, and Australia.

The Beth Chatto Gardens
Elmstead Market, Colchester, Essex
www.bethchatto.co.uk
A former overgrown wasteland that has been transformed into an informal garden in the countryside. The garden’s Tea Room offers light lunches, sweet treats, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&blog=1347663&post=3558&subd=artplantaetoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Follow the Twitter Feed for Botanical Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you following tweets on Twitter? Twitter sounds overwhelming, however it isn&#8217;t all that bad. You do not have to be logged-in 24/7 to see what is being said about this, that, and the other. All you need to do is click on the image of whomever you are following to see a list of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&blog=1347663&post=3538&subd=artplantaetoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enjoy Our National Parks for Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Park Service has planned three fee-free weekends for Summer 2009. One hundred parks will waive admission fees on the following weekends:

June 20-21, 2009
July 18-19, 2009
August 15-16, 2009

View a complete list of participating parks at Fee-Free Weekends in Your National Parks.
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		<title>June Bargins: Plant hunters, Margaret Mee &amp; More</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ArtPlantae has the opportunity to pass along exciting savings to our readers. We are excited to forward these savings because they apply to many botanical art- and botany-related titles. Firm restrictions are in place, however. They are:
   1. All sales are FINAL. Books are NON-RETURNABLE.
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		<title>Studio 16 &#8211; Butterfly Lifecycles &amp; A Costa Rican Adventure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following workshops by Mindy Lighthipe have been added to CLASSES NEAR YOU &#62; NEW JERSEY:

Studio 16
www.studio16online.com
Custom classes, individual instruction, art tours, and self-published instructional books can be found at Studio 16, the classroom and art studio of natural science illustrator, Mindy Lighthipe. To register for classes, contact Mindy at Mlighthipe@mac.com
or call 908-769-7417.

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		<title>Flowering Shrubs Are Focus of New Sierra Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author and artist, Shirley Spencer, has lived in the Sierra Nevada mountains for thirty years. An artist all her life, her passion for the flora of the Sierra Nevada mountains is captured in a new field guide featuring 40 flowering shrubs. Detailed descriptions of each shrub are paired with an original watercolor painting created by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&blog=1347663&post=3482&subd=artplantaetoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Natural History Watercolors on Auction at Sotheby&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 19, 2009, Sotheby&#8217;s will present a selection of color-plate books, atlases, cartography, and natural history watercolors from the collection of Graham Arader. Items to be presented will be on public view June 13 &#8211; 18, 2009. Graham Arader has been collecting symbols of American and European history for 40 years. Items to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artplantaetoday.com&blog=1347663&post=3475&subd=artplantaetoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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