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We all need some colour and brightness at the moment, so here are some more images from our collection showing some early spring flowers.

Which is your favourite?

It's Friday, so here are some Floral treats from our collection.

These are all early spring flowers that you might see in your garden at the moment, but can you name them all?

Pierre Jean François Turpin was born #OnThisDay in 1775. He learned botany from his collaborator Pierre Antoine Poiteau, but taught himself how to draw; and he didn’t do too bad a job judging by these fine examples held in the Lindley Library.
#BotanicalArt #RareBooks

Seaweed collecting was a popular Victorian pastime, with enthusiasts including Queen Victoria and George Eliot. ‘Ocean flowers and their teachings’ (1846) contains pressed seaweed specimens and was perfect for budding phycologists!
#BritishScienceWeek #RareBooks #Phycology

RHS Libraries hold a number of stunning illustrations by significant botanical artists, including Lilian Snelling (1879-1972), Caroline Maria Applebee (c.1799-1854) and Augusta Innes Withers (c.1791-1876).
#InternationalWomensDay #BotanicalArt

This #WorldBookDay2020 the Lindley Library has some great titles for green-fingered and artistic inspiration! Visit our lovely library in central London: https://t.co/RRS6m0eTR6

To produce just one kilogram of saffron anywhere between 110,000 and 170,000 flowers must be picked.
This beauty is Crocus sativus from Pierre Joseph Redouté's 'Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs' c.1827
#FunFactFriday

For #WoodcutWednesday we have some wonderful hand-coloured prints from ‘Plantarum, arborum, fruticum, et herbarum effigies’ published in Frankfurt in 1652. #RareBooks

In the Language of Flowers, Acanthus was said to represent art or artfulness in a bouquet.

#FolkloreThursday

German botanist and entomologist George Dionysius Ehret was born #OnThisDay in 1708. He was also a dab hand at illustration, as can be seen in his work of the 1750s 'Plantae and rariores papiliones', a copy of which is housed at the RHS Lindley Library. #BotanicalArt