DATE: 3/14/07

CONTACT: Christine Drais, 864-656-3405; cdrais@clemson.edu

Grand Opening Sale at Garden Gift Shop

CLEMSON – The South Carolina Botanical Garden is holding a grand opening sale at the garden gift shop March 17 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Everyone is invited to drop in and enjoy some light refreshments and browse through the new selection of nature and gardening books, children's educational games and nature themed toys, kites, gardening tools and seed kits, and local hand-crafted items.

The Discovery Center Gallery is currently exhibiting work by local artists Deb Smith with her sculptural baskets and Clemson graduate Stephanie Howard's pen and ink Shag Queen drawings.

The gift shop is located inside the Fran Hanson Discovery Center at the S.C. Botanical Garden.

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