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Is your garden hiding something from you?
Many of garden plants have past lives as medicines. Our Healing Garden online exhibition reveals some surprising cures and chemicals that may be lurking in your flower-bed.
https://t.co/lGTnUWaNEV

#OTD Birth of Thomas Andrew Knight (1759-1838), RHS President. Printed lithograph by Richard James Lane after an original by Solomon Cole, 1841.

Today's summer flower is the Fuchsia. Easy to grow with simple but beautiful pendulous flowers, they remain one of the most popular garden plants.

The first fuchsias were grown in Europe in the 1790s and hybridization brought the wealth of colour and form that we can now buy

We had a request for some rose images from our collection yesterday, so we've had a look and found these beautiful images. #Roses #Rosa

We're sharing a variety if summer flowers from our image collection this morning. Which one is your favourite?

Calling @The_RHS members! Have you seen our new online exhibition of Orchid portraits? It is a special private view for members until 13th August - then everyone can see

https://t.co/HkLmbvx0eV

Well its getting late, so we are going to call a halt to our great virtual flower share. We hope you enjoyed this glimpse into the riches of our digitised collections.

@Pentreglaw Here for you - a hand-coloured illustration of Gentiana acaulis, drawn and engraved by William Clark (fl.1820s), from Flora conspicua published in London in 1826.

@MonroviaKat @AdrianRudnyk Sorry - afraid we have drawn a blank on Eidelweiss in our digitised collections. In normal times, we are digitising all the time so one day.. In the meantime here is a bouquet of tulips

@FletcherFoley @LTMID1 No problem - here is an illustration of Digitalis purpurea from William Withering: An account of the foxglove. Published in Birmingham in 1785.