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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Wildflower Foundation awards 15 grants in 9 counties for wildflower plantings <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default style='margin-right:8.1pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='margin-right:8.1pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The <a href="http://www.flawildflowers.org/">Florida Wildflower Foundation</a><b> </b>recently awarded $500 grants for 15 planting projects in nine counties through its La Florida, “Land of Flowers,” Community Grant Program. Grants will be used to acquire native wildflower seeds or plants for the projects. Program funding is provided by the generous donations received from Florida State Wildflower license plate sales and renewals.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='margin-right:8.1pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='margin-right:8.1pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>To be eligible for the La Florida program, counties must have adopted a resolution to conserve Florida’s native wildflowers. Grant proposals were received from organizations and county and municipal departments in Brevard, Duval, Lake, Lee, Flagler, Putnam, St. Johns, Volusia and Wakulla.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='margin-right:8.1pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='margin-right:8.1pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://flawildflowers.org/resources/pdfs/pdf11/News%20releases/2011%20La%20Florida%20awards%20news%20release.pdf">Read the full news release</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>