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At the recent 14th Annual Meeting and Conference of the American Society of Botanical Artists, several businesses participating in the Exhibitors’ Hall presented their products and services to conference attendees.
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Addison presented Volume I of the Highgrove Florilegium, a collection of paintings highlighting the plants at HRH Prince Charles’ Highgrove estate. Only 175 copies [...]

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The California Native Plant Society is preparing to host a special statewide conference emphasizing the conservation of California’s native plants and its fragile plant communities. This conference, CNPS 2009 Conservation Conference: Strategies and Solutions , will be held January 17 - 19, 2009 at the Sacramento Convention Center in Sacramento, CA.
Encouraging an understanding of California [...]

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Earlier I noted that sometimes there are flowers that go unnoticed on a daily basis because we have seen them so many times before. We stop paying attention to them because they have become merely background noise. Today I have a prime example of what can happen if we all keep our observational skills [...]

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The conservation of rare, threatened and endangered flora typically requires the protection of these species from the general population. There have been many instances in which these species have been inadvertently destroyed. Because of this, most of the information on the location of these precious flora has been kept secret by conservation agencies.
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