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		<title>Legislation to destroy Pond Owners, Builders, and Businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At last nights Saturday meeting IWGS executive director brought back chilling news fromhis NAPP (National Association of Pond Professionals) meeting in Georgia. The anti-business movement legislation is afoot across the US. In Texas, effective the first of 2011 a &#8220;white list&#8221; goes into action. At that time it will be illegal to own, sell, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter care of Tropical Waterlilies 2009-2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In any given year you would consider water gardeners overwintering tropical waterlilies likley in Northern states. With such short growing seasons in the north its actually people in hardiness zones 6 and south that have more luck overwintering.  This winter was long and hard all the way to the Gulf Coast. Darren, a good water garden friend in Austin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Waterlily Journal&#8230;.. (25 Years)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[       Most of the following information was gathered and submitted to Water-Garden-Blog by Paula Biles and Larry Nau. Paula and Larry are the first and third Executive Directors of the International Waterlily and Water Garden Society.  *UPDATE 2/23/2010 &#8220;The Water Lily Journal&#8221; in block letters on the left is from the 1st editions of the Journal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Journal Lives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[      Tim Davis has continued some great work on the International Waterlily and Water Garden Society website this week. This is a great time to become a member as more information and services are available than anytime before as far as the web goes.  Larry Nau (Executive Director of the IWGS) and Tim Davis (Website [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Botanica Magnifica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Abbeville Press,
The original edition of Botanica Magnifica, consisting of five lavishly hand-bound volumes, was limited to just ten copies, the first of which was recently donated to the Smithsonian Institution. The extra-large “double-elephant” format of that edition was chosen in homage to the famous double-elephant folio of The Birds of America, and indeed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activated Carbon for filtration?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Activated carbon or activated charcoal called by some has been used for many years in pond filtration. Known mostly for its properties as an agent that can grab almost any chemical and contain it it makes a great water cleaner. I recently learned about just how good a bacterial agent it may be as well. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://water-garden-blog.com/activated-carbon-for-filtration/</link>
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		<title>News of Interest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beginning with Good news. An Aquascape team is participating in some wonderful work abroad.  Follow the link to their Blog and you can keep up with what is going on. http://aquascapecolombia.blogspot.com/.
Update January 28th 2010: 2500 gallons of clean water has been delivered to the Rose of Sharon School. 
Learn more about the Aquascapes Foundation here. 

Next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Iris Secret&#8221; Avoiding Spring Algae</title>
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          I should start by saying that this works in properly maintained water gardens. If you refer to your water garden as fish pond or koi pond that is the first signal you might lean more on the fish and less on the garden. In the spring remember not to begin feeding your fish until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aquatic Lingo &#8220;true aquatic&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A question yesterday from Cathy of Houston Texas as to what a true aquatic was. As stated by the IWGS, &#8220;True aquatics grow either underwater – submersed, or partly underwater &#8211; emersed.&#8221; This would make of course waterlilies true aquatics, and you may think of submerged oxygenators as true aquatics, but not all (even some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://water-garden-blog.com/aquatic-lingo-true-aquatic/</link>
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		<title>Hibiscus Sunrise (Hibiscus acetosella &#8216;Sunrise&#8217;)</title>
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 New for 2010! Buy this pond plant and others at Pond Megastore
Hibiscus Sunrise (Hibiscus acetosella &#8216;Sunrise&#8217;) 

This bog plant was developed by Florida Aquatic Nurseries. A seedling of the Red Night Booming Hibiscus (Hibiscus acetosella) Hibiscus &#8216; Sunrise&#8217; displays bright yellow flowers with a red throat that are open during the night and into the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://water-garden-blog.com/hibiscus-sunrise-hibiscus-acetosella-sunrise/</link>
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		<title>Old news is new again?</title>
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Tim Davis, who runs the International Waterlily Collection website and the IWGS.org site has added some great new additions for 2010 for the IWGS site. A step by step revamp of the International Waterlily and Water Garden Society is underway. Executive Director Larry Nau and fellow IWGS members are looking into getting permission from authors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://water-garden-blog.com/old-news-is-new-again/</link>
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		<title>Experts Grant Mitchell &amp; Warner Orozco-Obando</title>
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2010 Eastern China Lotus Exploration
&#38; Water Garden Tour
With Grant Mitchell and Warner Orozco-Obando
July 15-30 and Aug 3-17th 2010
Please contact if interested!   
Day 1 : Arrive Guanzhou Bai Yun Airport transport to hotel   
Day 2 : Day excursion to Lotus Mountain gardens. This garden is about 100 acres and includes many different parts. It overlooks the Pearl River [...]]]></description>
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