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Hand-painted Adirondack chairs build community spirit in Clinton, NY

January 27, 2009

If you’re looking for a way to jazz up your garden this summer, you would do well to follow the example of the good people of Clinton, NY. For the past two years, the Clinton Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the Kirkland Art Center (KAC), have been running an event they call Art Rocks. [...]

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Gifts for Gardeners: Botanical Art

December 11, 2007

Many gardeners want to pick out their own tools, but appreciate a thing of beauty that reminds them why they garden in the first place. So why not check out the following? Many of these beauty-makers are bloggers as well.
I first came across Elizabeth’s Flowers–the blog–which led me to her store of the same name. [...]

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The Occasional Gardener: A Beautiful Blog

August 29, 2007

I recently added The Occasional Gardener to my garden blog directory, and I have to say it is one of the most aesthetically pleasing blogs I have seen in a long time.

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Katinka Matson: A new twist on botanical images

April 5, 2007

Katinka Matson does not photograph flowers–she scans them. I don’t know how she manages to not flatten them, or how she gets a black background, but they look almost three dimensional, and the colors are exceptionally vibrant. Besides the front page, check out the archived galleries on the artist’s bio page (which also has an [...]

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