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It feels like has come at a time when people hopefully have a bit more time to spend in their gardens!

If you don't have a garden (like this comms person 🙃), here are some garden/ flora inspired Dovecot tapestries!
https://t.co/WSILmQv16X

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2020-04-29

Continuing today we turn to the witty & helpful Deckchair Gardener by - an alternative guide for those wanting to escape garden chore drudgery and just do the essential necessities🧑‍🌾🌼

Available : https://t.co/idyU3ErA6M

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2020-04-29

We're loving 💕 this beautiful drawing of pansy flowers, decorating the title of an 18th century Lanarkshire estate plan. https://t.co/rzsOIbnSev

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2020-04-28

This watercolour study of a Christmas Rose (Hellebore) is by artist Sophia Davenport c.1827. Do you have a favourite flower or plant?

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2020-04-28

My beautiful tree peony with our fabulous Pink peony card for Find this cards and more beautiful florals online at https://t.co/1P62g0ZvNs

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2020-04-28

It's - a chance to rejoice in all things green & horticultural. 🌱

This painting captures the gardener & odd-job man at Paul Cézanne's house near Aix-en-Provence. He featured in many works between 1902 & 1906.⁣
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Paul Cézanne The Gardener Vallier c.1906

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2020-04-28

It’s and if you’re anything like us you’ve been getting more green-fingered recently. Check out the Grow at Home page for tips that you and your little ones can use for inside and outside, and be just like Emily and Edward!
https://t.co/vL4aDFMcBs

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2020-04-27

It's and over in The Print Gallery at The Map House we have been putting together some beautiful bouquets for you with the help of Jane C. Loudon's "The Ladies Companion to the Flower Garden" (1841)

https://t.co/UrGevC8Yki

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2020-04-27

If you’re looking for inspiration for your vegetable patch this can help! Why not visit our Research Room to view Album Benary, published from 1876-1882, with its beautiful chromolithographs of heritage vegetables?

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2019-05-03

As it's time to revisit this superb photograph of a gardener from Chelmsford, 1860s, complete with an impressively spouted watering can.

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2019-04-29

It's And this year's theme is Edible Britain, so we'll be sharing some tasty content from our collection to inspire you to get in the garden growing your own produce 🍏🥦🥬🥔🍅

This litho print is from 1905, by London-based One & All Seed Warehouse.

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2019-04-29

A mighty beastie for any garden!!
TB Grasshopper part of the Opera Botanica Design which is available as a wallpaper and fabric.

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2018-06-06

Peony and a butterfly by Chinese artist Zhang Daqian, 1899–1965. Ink and colour on paper

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2018-05-05

What better time to visit than this It celebrates the best of & and what's more, it's just a 10 minute cycle from https://t.co/tztjCORSqa

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2018-05-03

My preparation for so far....Hope that everyone is having a fabulous Wednesday!! Also that you are enjoying

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2018-05-03

Christian Egenolff’s 17thc herbal. Egenolff was a publisher, not a botanical writer, and pirated many of his works from other authors. It was written that there were none who had "more of the crassest errors than those published by Egenolff".

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2018-05-02

A garden brings peace to the restless mind. is upon us, I'm stuck in London in an office. But next week I'll be home in Dorset among the greenery, wildlife & veggies. https://t.co/fThwUcZDj7 (illustration )

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2018-05-01