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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.

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2018-04-30

Explore plant morphology through for with August Batsch's "Analyses florum e diversis plantarum generibus" (1790), in via : https://t.co/H50cnSWFTJ

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2018-04-24

Greater and Lesser Periwinkle from the wonderful Diana Ruth Wilson botanical watercolour collection at the museum

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2018-04-23

More signs of spring from Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969); come and see all 194 of our botanical watercolours

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2018-04-16

European frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae) has become invasive in eastern Canada & the northeastern United States. from "Flora von Deutschland", Bd. 4 (1905). In via : https://t.co/SLxJsxDQ8f

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2018-04-10

It's Season, so for we're featuring the North Japanese hill cherry (Prunus sargentii). by Matilda Smith & lithographed by John Nugent Fitch for "Curtis's Botanical Magazine" v. 137 (1911). In via : https://t.co/cKHP6NeC4W

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2018-04-10

Another drawing from the Diana Ruth Wilson Botanical collection c.1906-14

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2018-04-10

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

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2018-04-02

Blue Passionflower (Passiflora caerulea). by Mary Ann Burnett for her Plantae Utiliores, Vol. 1 (1842). Contributed to by the Research Library of : https://t.co/tqziBkNZli

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2018-03-27

Fritillaries from the Diana Ruth Wilson collection

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2018-03-26

Yate (Eucalyptus cornuta) is native to Western Australia. by Walter Hood Fitch for "Curtis's Botanical Magazine" v. 101 (1875). Contributed to by : https://t.co/3AApL9D3oE

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2018-03-13

Rhododendron discolor is native to many high altitude regions of by Matilda Smith for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 143 (1917). Contributed to by the Peter H. Raven Library of the : https://t.co/LT7c3qtv9C

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2018-03-12

The Greater Periwinkle from our botanical watercolour collection (Diana Ruth Wilson, 1886-1969)

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2018-03-12

"Nederlandsch Bloemwerk" (1794) was produced as a sampler of the wide variety of auriculas, & other available from Dutch nurserymen. Explore the 53 hand-colored engraved plates in via : https://t.co/cvYNu43WL8

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2018-03-06

Ox-lip by Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969), slightly less common now in the locality of Sherborne

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2018-03-05

(Callistephus chinensis). by Pierre-Joseph Redouté for his Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs: et des Plus Beaux Fruits (c1833). Contributed for digitization by the Peter H. Raven Library of : https://t.co/Dy0cBy0k6T --

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2018-02-27

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

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2018-02-26

Signs of spring with delicate anemones (wind flowers) opening up - from the Diana Ruth Wilson collection of botanical watercolours

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2018-02-19

Some of these are already flowering - primroses from the Wilson watercolour collection

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2018-02-05

Irises by Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969) from nearly 200 paintings of hers in our watercolour collection of local flora

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2018-01-29