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Celebrating May with the May or hawthorn, the most commonly mentioned
tree in Anglo-Saxon boundary charters and indicative of a route into the Other World. From our Wilson Collection. #BotanicMonday #womensart #folklore #liminal
Greater and Lesser Periwinkle from the wonderful Diana Ruth Wilson botanical watercolour collection at the museum #BotanicMonday
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More signs of spring from Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969); come and see all 194 of our botanical watercolours #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflower
Another drawing from the Diana Ruth Wilson Botanical collection c.1906-14
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Should be seeing the Early Purple Orchid soon; Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969) painted many different orchids around Sherborne at the turn of the C20th #BotanicMonday #Orchid #womensart #wildflowerhour #dorsethour
Fritillaries from the Diana Ruth Wilson collection #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflower #dorsethour
The Greater Periwinkle from our botanical watercolour collection (Diana Ruth Wilson, 1886-1969) #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflower
Diana Ruth Wilson, (1886-1969) Sherborne's pioneering botanist and one of the first to inventorise plants of the shola forests in the Nilgiri Hills
Ox-lip by Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969), slightly less common now in the locality of Sherborne #BotanicMonday #Womensart #wildflower
Chilly violets for a snowy week ahead - the heating is on in the museum for winter opening Tuesday and Thursday am 10.30-12.30, so come and view all 200 Diana Ruth Wilson watercolours #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowerhour