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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This season's Jean’s focus is attention to detail and gentle colours for the eye. The only element missing from these scrumptious blooms is their seductive scent.

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

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sometimes I smells like wildflowers, cigarettes, or Dairy Queen fast food! (It depends where and who I'm with)

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

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Wildflower in my head. 5x7. Ink & Watercolor.

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In the grip of cold and frosty days, the mind wonders to the white flowers that were busily buzzing away during 2017 growing and flanking my meadowlands. Who’s going to visit your white and friendly plants on your patch in 2018?

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

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Beginning to show now.... celandines from Diana Ruth Wilson's collection of West Dorset flora

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Winter twigs by Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969). Her early collection of botanical watercolours of West Dorset flora is one of our major exhibitions.

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Winter twigs from the Wilson Botanical collection reflecting the austere beauty of the season

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You can start over today. Right in this minute. It doesn’t have to be a Monday or a new year to recreate yourself. -different-ocean

artwork by sleepingwildflower

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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)

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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

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"You are blessed with a heart like a wildflower. Strong enough to rise again after being trampled upon. Though enough to weather the worst of the summer storms. And able to grow and flourish even in the most broken places.” — Nikita Gill.

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