Anna Laurent

Anna Laurent
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Art + Botany: Plants in Peril
By Anna Laurent
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A dual exhibition at Kew Botanical Gardens features Plants in Peril and Losing Paradise, showing illustrations of endangered plants through the world. The exhibition closes March 18, 2012, so go see it if you can! Read More »
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Botanic Notables: The Shamrock
By Anna Laurent
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Here's to a holiday filled with the luck of the Irish and the spirit of St Patrick; just remember, their leafy symbols don't look the same. We look at the stories behind the legend of St. Patrick's emblem, and the difference between a shamrock and a four-leaf clover.   Read More »
Related Topics:Anna Laurent| botanic notables| clover| Green| holiday| irish| shamrock| St Patrick's Day| Ideas
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Art + Botany: The North American Sylva
By Anna Laurent
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Written by French botanists who explored North American forests in the late 1700s, The North American Sylva is a monumental work with masterful illustrations and extensive botanic profiles. The book would help France reforest its post-war countryside, and become a landmark in North American forestry. Today, it remains readable and... Read More »
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Botanic Superlatives: The Oldest Royal Garden
By Anna Laurent
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Ancient pollen grains preserved on the site of a royal palace in Jerusalem have given researchers a vision of 7th century B.C garden opiulence: a lush paradise with surprising exotics and traitional species.  Read More »
Related Topics:ancient| botanic superlatives| Brown| Green| History| israel| jerusalem| Middle East| Travel| Ideas
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Art + Botany: Sally Jacobs Watercolor Exhibit
By Anna Laurent
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Botanical illustrator Sally Jacobs finds her subjects at Los Angeles farmers markets. A show of her vegetable watercolor portraits just opened at a gallery in Bergamot Station, Santa Monica.  Read More »
Related Topics:art + botany| exhibit| Green| illustration| Los Angeles| Purple| Red| sally jacobs| vegetables| watercolor| Yellow| Ideas
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Botanic Notables: Purple-Leaf Plum Tree
By Anna Laurent
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The purple-leaf plum tree is blossoming, which means it's spring! It is a beautiful ornamental tree that bears edible fruits—perfect for summer foraging and winter preserves. Read More »
Related Topics:botanic notables| cherry plum| foraging| fruit| Pink| Prunus Cerasifera| Purple| purple-leaf plum| Ideas
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Art + Botany: Wave Hill Wild Garden Exhibit
By Anna Laurent
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Herbarium Specimen Painting
Art + Botany: Rachel Pedder-Smith's Herbarium Specimen Painting
By Anna Laurent
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Painted from specimens in Kew's Herbarium, Rachel Pedder-Smith's Herbarium Specimen Painting is an 18-foot masterpiece of botanic illustration, and a tapestry with hundreds of narratives that depict a history of plant evolution and scientific discovery.  Read More »
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Botanic Notables: The Roselily Collection
By Anna Laurent
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Looking for a new blossom for your Easter vases? How about a lily with three times as many petals as traditional Liliums? Designed primarily for the cut flower market, Roselilies have some very unique attributes: an absence of pollen, a lighter fragrance, and a very long vase life. Check your local florist for two...

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Related Topics:Anna Laurent| botanic notables| double lily| Easter| holiday| lilies| lily| new varieties| Pink| plants| rose lily| White| Flowers| Ideas
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Art + Botany: Wave Hill's Wild Garden Exhibit
By Anna Laurent
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Tending Toward the Untamed: Artists Respond to the Wild Garden is a collection of work that interprets the relationship between nature and the gardener as it grows at Wave Hill, a garden overlooking the Hudson River, in Bronx, New York. Our Q&A with Jennifer McGregor, Director of Arts and Senior Curator at Wave Hill. Read More »
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