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This plate from Die Käfer Europas [595.72 Sch] displays numerous #colourful #beetles that may be familiar #garden visitors or seen out & about among #wildflowers. How many do you recognise? #WildWebsWednesday #biodiversity #WildlifeWednesday #sciart #chromolithography #insects

According to Cornish folklore, young girls were often transported to fairyland after breaking fern fronds. They would be confronted by a 'fairy widower' and would agree to look after his son with the promise:

'For a year and a day,
I promise to stay'

#FolkloreThursday

Some more #SummerFlower favourites from our collection of botanical art.

Do you recognise them all?

There is much folklore about how roses got their red colour. Many of these were tales of divine origins, like this from Herrick:

"'Tis said, as Cupid danced among the gods, he down the nectar flung,
Which on the white rose being shed, made it ever after red."

#FolkloreThursday

Trees feature heavily in T.F. Thistleton Dyer's The Folklore of Plants and the link between farming and indications from trees is a popular one, especially the mighty Oak.

"When the oak puts on his gosling grey,
'Tis time to sow the barley night or day"

#FolkloreThursday

Here are some more summer flower favourites with images from the Lindley Library collection of botanical art.

Can you name them all?

#summerflowers #BotanicalArt

Carolyn Jenkins’ Hellebore flower takes inspiration from Victorian #botanical illustration. We’ll be shining a light on our #botanical art collections in tours at the #RHSLondon Bot Art & Photography Show this week -1pm & 3pm on Wed 24 & Thurs 25 July! https://t.co/DJ4gHtomL7

Summer flower favourites, the delicate beauty of the Fuchsia.
The genus was named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs. #SummerFlowers

Discover The Art of the Rose on our new RHS Special Collections page on the Google Arts & Culture platform.

https://t.co/VhDly9tai9

We've been seeking out all things orchidaceous for this week's #Wildflowerhour #orchidchallenge. Caroline Maria Applebee's delicate 19th century #watercolour illustration shows 2 native UK orchid species - Ophrys insectifera (fly orchid) & Ophrys apifera (bee orchid). #sciart