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Feeling blue?
Let these amazing illustrations of blue flowers from the botany collections lift your mood. Artists include Ainslie Ensom and Alister Mathews

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2020-05-25

"Alpenflora" (1905), by Gustav Hegi & Gustav Dunzinger, offers a comprehensive account of the botany of the mountainous Alpine regions, particularly Bavaria, Austria and Switzerland. Explore the work in thanks to ➡️ https://t.co/OTcZbywBeV

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2020-05-11

As the first shoots of St. John's Wort and Bryony crept from the earth, Norfolk botanist Benjamin Stillingfleet found Lilac and Cranesbill in flower in 1755.

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2020-04-27

Fabulous magnolias now in bloom evoke G.D.Ehret’s illustration of Magnolia from Plantae Selectae 1772 held in Botany collections .
Ehret walked daily to the gardens of Sir Charles Wager to observe the magnolias there​.
​#BotanicMonday

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2020-03-30

Our work experience student has been sorting a fantastic collection of wall charts published in the late 1800s.
The posters shown here from Botanische Wandtafeln, show the morphology of the alga Botrydium granulatum in great detail.

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2020-02-17

1865 herbarium specimen of Humulus lupulus - Hops - collected
in Speke, Liverpool & seen today growing in our City Wildflower Meadow

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2019-12-10

Sprig of holly from our botanical watercolour collections for the second day of December

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2019-12-02

As we enjoy the crisp clear days of autumn, these wonderful botanical illustrations of bramble, hazel, rowan and horse chestnut, from Botany collections , are evocative of the season’s treasures.

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2019-11-25

A couple of strikingly interesting Euphorbias, Caper Spurge and Portland Spurge from the Wilson botanical watercolour collection.

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2019-11-11

Autumnal selection from the Diana Ruth Wilson botanical art collection

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2019-10-14

More seasonal plants from the Wilson botanical collection - such an inspirational time of year!

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2019-09-16

Let's have a bit of autumn colour to celebrate the turning of the year, from our Wilson botanical collection

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2019-09-02

Sarah Ann Drake (1803–1857), an English botanical artist. Her Spotted Bellflower (Campanula punctata) for Edwards's Botanical Register, Vol. 32 (1846) on this Explore more of her art from this magazine in via : https://t.co/jhEw3lDxoo

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2019-08-20

It's & Plants from the genuses Colocasia, Caladium, Alocasia and Xanthosoma are often commonly called "elephant ears". Explore more of these large-leaved plants in 's : https://t.co/ghmRmss6V5

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2019-08-12

A selection of flowers from Kashmir from our Edwardian botanist's exotic 40th birthday excursion. More from the Diana Ruth Wilson collection of botanical watercolours

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2019-08-05

How about some gorgeous irises for Think of damp mossy ground and cool ponds in this weather. From our amazing Wilson watercolour collection

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2019-07-22

Hugo de Vries, mainly known for suggesting the concept of rediscovering the laws of in the 1890s, shared his discoveries with A. Kohts and gave him several sprouts of Oenothera, which he used for his scientific experiments.

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2019-07-15

Foxglove portrayed by Diana Ruth Wilson, botanical artist 1886-1969. Also happens to be extremely attractive to bees if you're planning a wildlife garden!

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2019-07-09

Wimbledon in full swing? Must be time for strawberries!
Beautiful illustration of Fragaria by Nikolaus-Friedrich Eisenberger (1701-1771) from Herbarium Blackwellianum

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2019-07-08

Happy Morning Glory (Ipomoea tricolor). by A. Vasset for Revue Horticole (1922). View more in via Harvard Botany Library of and : https://t.co/Db8ZdTOyrU Explore more from this issue: https://t.co/MGLShOHE83

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2019-07-02