Tag Archives: botanical art

Fabulous Florilegia

Posted on 21/01/2023 by The Gardens Trust

What are florilegia? In a direct translation from Latin a florilegium literally means a collection of flowers so its easy to see why it was used for the first time by Adriaen Collaert as the title for his book simply entitled ‘Florilegium’ which … Continue reading →

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Immortalising the ephemeral: The painter, his patrons and their plants

Posted on 08/08/2020 by The Gardens Trust

I wrote recently about the gardens and the greenhouse that Josephine, the wife of Napoleon, created at Malmaison near Paris. Employing some of the leading botanists and gardeners in France, and never short of a franc or two, … Continue reading →

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Christmas with the Vicar and some Naked Ladies

Posted on 21/12/2019 by The Gardens Trust

Scratching my head for something suitably seasonal, and having previously looked at poinsettia and mistletoe but reluctant to do the obvious like Christmas Trees, holly or ivy, it occurred to me that very little has been written about Naked Ladies…. … Continue reading →

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The adventures of Maria Graham

Posted on 07/12/2019 by The Gardens Trust

As most people know the role of women in garden history – ok all history – has been under-recorded and severely underrated. But things are changing. In particular women’s place in the study and collection of plants in the late … Continue reading →

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THE Concise British Flora….

Posted on 23/11/2019 by The Gardens Trust

In the early 1960s a shy Devon clergyman was persuaded to send in some of his drawings and watercolours of British wild flowers to a publisher. They agreed to publish but could hardly have been expecting the public response to … Continue reading →