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From Stevie Wonder To 'Mother Earth's Plantasia,' Music For Plants Is Real (even if the science is not) @NPR https://t.co/vXvzN7LY08
A Life Without Bugs is no Life at all. As a single mother against the odds, Maria Sibylla Merian became one of the pioneers of a reformed, scientific understanding of the variance, abilities, aptitudes, complexities and roles of insects. https://t.co/JroFDeXuqi
When Dole Sent Georgia O’Keeffe to Hawaii @NYBG via @JSTOR_Daily
Today we are doing a thread on the Rhaphiolepis, Hawthorn.
Picture courtesy of @BioDivLibrary from Addisonia : colored illustrations and popular descriptions of plants. https://t.co/diw4Bhpyez
and finally the English name of Mandrake means the dragon resembling man.
Got any fun Mandrake facts? We would love to hear them!!
An Old English Calendar (1866) named Violets the flower of March. In the story of Zeus and Io, Io's tears became Violets for her to eat. Violets are also one of the few flowers to be used as a political symbol, used by the French Bonapartists as their emblem.
Today we celebrate Australian Botanical Illustrator, anthropologist, gardener and Aboriginal rights activist Olive Pink. She spent most her life agitating politicians, her later life is when she pursued her botanical interest and established Olive Pink Botanic Gardens
A little #MondayMotivation courtesy of Olive Pink and the University of Tasmania's Open Access Repository https://t.co/UgtJVTwfzE
Laura Coombs Hills was an artist who specialized in watercolor and pastel still life paintings, especially flowers. We featured a pictured from her 1897 Dream Roses calendar which was inspired by Art Nouveau and featured images of young women surrounded by flowers