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Signs of spring with delicate anemones (wind flowers) opening up - from the Diana Ruth Wilson collection of botanical watercolours #BotanicMonday #Womensart #wildflower
Some of these are already flowering - primroses from the Wilson watercolour collection #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflower
Irises by Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969) from nearly 200 paintings of hers in our watercolour collection of local flora #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowers
Beginning to show now.... celandines from Diana Ruth Wilson's collection of West Dorset flora #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflower
Winter twigs by Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969). Her early collection of botanical watercolours of West Dorset flora is one of our major exhibitions. #BotanicMonday #womensart #Wildflower
Winter twigs from the Wilson Botanical collection reflecting the austere beauty of the season #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowerhour
Rosehip syrup, full of Vitamin C, used to keep away coughs and colds at this time of year, drawn by our own Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969) #womeninNatHist #womensart #BotanicMonday #wildflowerhour
A glossy sprig of Christmas Holly from Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969). As a girl, she took a posy of Dorset holly and hellebores on the ship bound for Rio, to ward against homesickness on her plant hunting trip #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowerhour #Christmas
The mysterious Herb Paris, prolific in a wood near Sherborne, courtesy of Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969) #BotanicMonday #womensart
Prim and proper Sherborne, eh? This bonfire parade was popular & subversive as any in the south east! #FolkloreThursday #BonfireNight2017