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• Lets take this outside: Outdoor holiday activities at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Morton Arboretum and Lurie Garden

  
  Wee Windy City — Authority: 464
  Yeah, yeah, so its December and it is cold now. But if you bundle up, there is still lots of holiday fun to be had outdoors. Lurie Garden in Millennium Park. The Lurie Garden isnt just a summertime destination. There are plenty of great family workshops you can take advantage of throughout the winter. On ...
  2 days ago

• Borderstan Weekend: ZooLights, Holiday Magic, Crèches, “Messiah”

  
  Borderstan — Authority: 522
  It’s December, so here are three holiday-related things to do this weekend in DC: ZooLights at the National Zoo; Holiday Magic at the U.S. Botanic Garden; the annual Silent Night, Holy Night crèche display at the National Cathedral; and Handel’s Messiah at the National Cathedral. – LuisZooLights at the National ...
  3 days ago

• Flower Power | Kusama-rama, From Miami to Milan

  
  The Moment — Authority: 708
  The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama , born in 1929, has spent the last 20 years commuting between her large studio in the Tokyo suburbs and the psychiatric hospital that she chooses to call home. Flipping through the art calendar, we see that her paintings and sculptures are living a very different life, traveling all ...
  5 days ago

• Festival colour from the queen of flowers

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 137
  SUMMER was welcomed with a burst of colour this weekend at the Wellington Botanic Garden annual rose festival. Visitors went on guided walks through the gardens and watched botanical and watercolour artists at work in the begonia house. Among Wellington residents and tour groups flocking to the event were a senior ...
  6 days ago

• Kowboys for Kids . . . in Fort Worth, Texas

  
  Lone Star Meanderings — Authority: 104
  Christmas in November? Yep, it could happen. Especially, if youre a Cowboy. Upcoming this Sunday, November 29th, 2009, Kowboys for Kids will host their 20th Annual Christmas bash to raise toys and donations for the quickly-approaching holiday season. Kowboys For Kids This year the event will be held at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Birthday nommage

  
  Chatiryworld — Authority: 122
  Now, where was I before I got rudely interrupted by illness this week?  Birthday food, thats where! Last Sunday we went all out on domestic god/goddessness (of the atheist variety, natch).  I set up the Clothkits toys to be having a little picnic for Emily to join in.  She was more interested in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Belated Happy Birthday to Annan!*

  
  Talking Plants — Authority: 417
  Australia’s largest botanic garden celebrated its 21st birthday this year, with a free Garden Tea Party and photographic exhibition (Then and Now) in October.One of the State Government of NSW’s bicentenary projects, Mount Annan Botanic Garden was opened by visiting Royal Sarah Feruson in 1988. It was a chance to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thursday, November 19, 2009

  
  Ink In My Coffee — Authority: 128
  Interior, Library of Congress Thursday, November 19, 2009 Waxing Moon Uranus Retrograde I’m on the road all day, headed back to NY. I’ve got a post up on Kemmryk about loss , since this is the first anniversary of my grandmother’s death. I am so sore that I’m almost looking forward to the long bus ...
  2 weeks ago

• More on the Botanic Garden mess

  
  anilnetto.com — Authority: 425
  A total of RM5 million in federal funds has been approved for projects at the Penang Botanic Garden. But would you accept such funds if this was the result? Photos by three concerned Botanic Garden lovers – Click icon on bottom right to expand to full-screen slideshow mode These are the projects under the Ninth ...
  2 weeks ago

• Friends of Dundee Botanic Garden 2010 calendar

  
  Cllr Fraser Macpherson - LibDem Councillor for Dundee's West End - www.dundeewestend.com — Authority: 429
  With the permission of the Friends of Dundee Botanic Garden, Id like to give a mention of their excellent 2010 calendar, now available. As the Friends advise : "The 2010 Calendar is a convenient desk size, and is ideal for posting to family and friends further afield at Christmas time. Or for "first footing" ...
  3 weeks ago

• In the Weeds, with Matthew Gallaway: The Oxford Botanic Garden

  
  The Awl — Authority: 776
  The second I walked through the entrance of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, I knew I had made the right decision to skip the historic site of ____ (est. 1287), which several of my colleagues opted to visit on a recent Sunday afternoon before a series of ‘business meetings’ that would occupy us through the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lets Take This Outside: Sustainable Sites Initiative Unveils "LEED for Landscape" Ratings

  
  greenbuildingsNYC — Authority: 119
  At the most basic level -- in the way that the sky is blue and Jon Gosselins fake-tanned skin is orange -- grass and trees and topiary and your other things-that-grow are green. Its tough to explain why all this is, so many years after seventh grade science, but chlorophyll and photosynthesis are involved and long ...
  3 weeks ago

• Leaf Composting this Sunday November 8th!

  
  Sustainable Flatbush — Authority: 110
  This month Flatbush residents will have two local opportunities to keep their autumn leaves out of the landfill! Sustainable Flatbush is proud to be part of Project LeafDrop : “a volunteer-run, neighborhood-based coalition of gardeners and greening partners who are harvesting residential leaves for compost this ...
  4 weeks ago

• Buildings of the The National Mall

  
  Kathika Travel Website — Authority: 138
  The National Mall is especially these days as the location where the massive crowd formed to see the inauguration of President Barrack Obama.  Over forty years ago, it was famous for a similar occasion when people gathered there to hear Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech.  The mall is also home to a ...
  4 weeks ago

• New green landscape rating system unveiled

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 498
  A partnership of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the U.S. Botanic Garden today released the nations first rating system for the design, construction and maintenance of sustainable landscapes, with or without ...
  4 weeks ago

• Take A Walk

  
  Texas Liberal — Authority: 560
  The photo in this post is of the Illinois prairie area of the Chicago Botanical Garden. I took this picture last August. These gardens were like some kind of paradise. I’m certain they are nice in the fall and even in the winter. If I were you—and in a sense I am you because we are all connected—I’d find a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Student Allotments Project

  
  Cllr Fraser Macpherson - LibDem Councillor for Dundee's West End - www.dundeewestend.com — Authority: 429
  On Monday, I mentioned (see http://tinyurl.com/studentallotments or click on the headline above) that I had met with three University of Dundee students who are working on a project to encourage those who want to start growing their own fruit and vegetables in Dundee. I was very impressed with their ...
  5 weeks ago

• Spooky Pooch Parade: Botanic Gardens

  
  Sugar The Golden Retriever — Authority: 115
  Woof! Happy Halloween! Finally, the rain stopped and hooray for sunshine. I participated in the Spooky Pooch Parade  at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. It was lots of FUN FUN FUN. Check out out some of the dogs I met. Before the parade, I was able to watch some of the ducks. ...
  5 weeks ago

• State Crowns Two Brooklyn Trees as Champions

  
  City Room — Authority: 783
  Two trees in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden -- a holly and a hawthorn -- are the largest of their species on record in New York State, according to the states Big Tree Register.
  5 weeks ago

• Seasonal Splash (1): Autumn Surprise at the National Botanic Garden of Wales

  
  Caroline at Coastcard — Authority: 113
  Autumn Acers Lakeside scene Looking up to the Great Glass House Autumn Light - or is it more like Winter? Above and Below: a splash of colour A surprise visitor in the Great Glass House... Looking down on the Tardis I was inspired by Stevens terrific display of autumn ...
  5 weeks ago

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