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		<title>Research Volunteer Spotlight: How mushrooms change lives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Vera Evenson, Curator of the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi


A great quote I heard lately,   “ The first person served by Service is the Server,”   perfectly exemplifies the impact the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi has had on our decades-long volunteer, Rosa-Lee Brace.
Sam Mitchel, the founder of our mycology herbarium in l965, inspired Rosa-Lee [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.botanicgardensblog.com/2010/03/09/research-volunteer-spotlight-how-mushrooms-change-lives/</link>
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		<title>Shop at the Gardens Showcases New Spring Items</title>
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Oh dear&#8230;I am longing for spring. It is that time of year when it is just beginning to warm up &#8211; but not enough to discard the coat and hat just yet. I have been looking for anything that will remind me that warmer weather, buds on trees and spring blooms are a mere month or so away. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.botanicgardensblog.com/2010/03/05/shop-at-the-gardens-showcases-new-spring-items/</link>
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		<title>In Bloom at the Gardens: Week of March 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An early morning, early March walk reveals surprising delights.
• Colors: the muted greys and browns of late winter are ever-so-slowly giving way to hints of green and glimpses of brighter colors. How can you see purple Iris reticulata next to brilliant yellow crocuses, and not feel a surge of hope? The Water-Smart Garden is one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.botanicgardensblog.com/2010/03/05/in-bloom-at-the-gardens-week-of-march-6th/</link>
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		<title>Anything but drab! Spanish draba (Draba hispanica) is always first to bloom.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poor drabas! Such a colorless name&#8230;and they have other image problems too&#8211;that acid yellow color and their general similarity to one another. Oh well: some of us look beyond these superficialities. We have a welter of alpine drabas we must wait until June to see in the alpine, but if you are lucky enough to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.botanicgardensblog.com/2010/03/04/anything-but-drab-2/</link>
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		<title>Fresh New Planting in the Boettcher Memorial Tropical Conservatory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t been able to swing in and check out the Boettcher Tropical Conservatory in the last couple of weeks, now is a great time. We have just recently finished a bed renovation that is sure to please all who come to enjoy it. My teammates and I decided to not hold anything back on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.botanicgardensblog.com/2010/03/03/fresh-new-planting-in-the-boettcher-tropical-conservatory/</link>
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		<title>In Bloom at the Gardens: Week of February 27</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I checked my gardening journal this week. (I start each spring with good intentions, but writing in the journal occurs in inverse proportion to the amount of work that needs to be done in the garden!) I have been imagining that this winter has been longer and colder than recent winters. I wanted to verify [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.botanicgardensblog.com/2010/02/27/in-bloom-at-the-gardens-week-of-february-27/</link>
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		<title>MacArthur &#8216;Genius&#8217; David Montgomery Speaks: Real Dirt on Soil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When gardeners dish the dirt, they may speak of soil, either their own or the soil they wished they had.  It really is the bed in which you make your garden lie.  So 2008 MacArthur &#8216;Genius&#8217; award recipient David Montgomery, author of  Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, is the perfect speaker to help peer into our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.botanicgardensblog.com/2010/02/25/macarthur-genius-david-montgomery-speaks-real-dirt-on-soil/</link>
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		<title>More than just the plants are growing this winter at Denver Botanic Gardens</title>
		<description><![CDATA["An army of construction workers were swarming like ants over the structure..."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.botanicgardensblog.com/2010/02/25/more-than-just-the-plants-are-growing-this-winter-at-denver-botanic-gardens/</link>
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