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Botanic Notables: Plants of The Hunger Games
By Anna Laurent
Leaves, berries, blossoms, and bark: A guide to the plants of The Hunger Games.
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Art + Botany: Mary Vaux Walcott, the "Audubon of Botany"
By Anna Laurent
An intrepid naturalist and botanic illustrator, Mary Vaux Walcott explored the Rocky Mountains to paint its wildflowers. 
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Private Paradise: Contemporary American Gardens
By Lise Funderburg
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Our book review of Private Paradise: Contemporary American Gardens (Monacelli). This new book featuring 41 residences from around the country and is by Charlotte M. Frieze, the longtime garden editor for the now-defunct House & Garden magazine.
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Book Review: Garden Designers At Home
By Adrian Higgins
In Garden Designers at Home, a new tome from Pavilion Books, top designers use their own gardens to hone their craft.
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Art + Botany: Robert Thornton's 'The Temple of Flora'
By Anna Laurent
The Temple of Flora is perhaps the most famous florilegium or book of flowers from the golden age of botanical illustration. It's a charming collection of deliberately idiosyncratic flower portraits that became the portrait of a nation.
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From Garden to Table: The One-Block Feast
By Katie Mendelson
In today's from Garden to Table column, Katie Mendelson reviews Sunset magazine's new book The One-Block Feast, about the staff's experience in growing, cooking, and eating their own food at their California headquarters. Plus: A recipe for pattypan squash with eggs baked inside!
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Hamptons Gardens
By Ted Loos
From the restored beauty of Grey Gardens to the minimalist designs of landscape designer Edwina von Gal, Hamptons Gardens showcases the best of the good life.
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First Lady of Flowers
By Paul O'Donnell
Dorothy Biddle was a pioneer in the world of American flower arranging, traveling around the country by bus and train from the late 1940s to the late 1950s, encouraging Americans everywhere to grow and arrange their own flowers. Her legacy lives on today in her company, Dorothy Biddle Service, run by her granddaughter, which continues to sell flower arranging supplies—now on the Internet.
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A Frog Lover’s Delight
By Lise Funderburg
Flower Frogs for Collectors is exactly what its name describes: a collection of photos of flower frogs, for collectors. One collector—who has about a hundred—even uses a frog as a toothbrush holder.
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Marianne North, Botanical Artist
By Alexia Nader
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A curmudgeonly traveler, Marianne North went around the world—twice! alone!—during the Victorian era, armed with a parasol and an easel, determined to paint as many of the world's plants as possible.  The result, some 800 paintings of flora, many of which were unknown to European audiences, are on display at Kew Gardens, and her travel writings have been gathered in a new book, Abundant Beauty. We take a look at the life of this remarkable woman.
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