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This Easter Monday take some time out to enjoy our beautiful online exhibitions.

From daffodils to dahlias, from apples to orchids, you'll find some gorgeous images and find out more about the plants you love too!

Perfect with your Easter chocolate!

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Happy Easter from us all in the RHS Libraries team.

#Tulips #SpringFlowers

Did you know each month is represented by a different flower?

April's flower is the Sweet Pea which symbolizes a delicate pleasure. In the Victorian language of flowers sweet peas were sent to convey gratefulness. They come in soft pastel shades and two tone colours.

The ‘daffodowndilly’, the ‘Flower of March’, the ‘trumpet flower’… the daffodil is a flower of many names!

Visit our online exhibition to discover more about this surprisingly varied springtime flower…
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Images by 19thC daffodil breeder William Herbert

The sweet, shiny black berries of the Deadly Nightshade contain Atropine, which causes rapid heartbeat, hallucinations and seizures when eaten.

In Scotland it was believed that walking over Deadly Nightshade plants would make you see the ghosts of dead people. #FolkloreThursday

Today marks the #birthday of naturalist Mark Catesby, who was born #OTD in 1683. @RHSLibraries hold a copy of his Natural History of Carolina [581.9 (7P) CAT], which is filled with vivid, #engraved plates depicting the flora & fauna he encountered during his #travels. #rarebooks

"They seek him here, they seek him there..." in this case, the not quite so elusive scarlet pimpernel plant. Woodcut illustration from William Turner's Herbal, a fascinating 16th century work examining the medicinal properties of plants [1578, 615.3 TUR]. #WoodcutWednesday

We're working on a project that will make tens of thousands of images of the Society’s unique collection of rare books, beautiful art and much more available online through a digitisation project.

Find out how and why we're doing this here:

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Maybe you weren’t inundated with romantic cards and gifts today? Never mind, here are some roses from us. From the rare book room at the Lindley Library, one of our most beautiful illustrated books Hortus Floridus by Crispijn de Passe published in 1614. Happy #ValentinesDay

Tea roses were said to have a faint tea aroma but the name may also reflect the fact that the parent roses of these hybrids came to Europe via the China tea trade routes.

Rose ‘Golden Gate’ from Rosenzeitung magazine 1888