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This is my #botanicalillustration of White #clover, #Trifolium repens, for @FSCPublications . I love clovers, and their amazing root nodules that fix N2. I sold the framed original of this yesterday, such a treat to have my #botanicalart going to a good home! #wildflowerhour
Stinking Iris or Roast Beef plant (Iris foetidissima) as portrayed by our Edwardian Botanical artist Diana Ruth Wilson 1886-1969 #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowerhour #dorsethour
A handful of medicinal herbs selected from the Wilson botanical collection #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowerhour #dorsethour
Appearing in a hedgerow near you, a selection of fruiting trees/shrubs as portrayed by our Edwardian botanical artist Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969) #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowerhour #dorsethour
A selection of hand-tinted pages from Diana Ruth Wilson's "Flora" of the Nilgiri Hills that complements our early collection of local botanical drawings #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowerhour #dorsethour
A selection of summer purples and pinks from the Diana Ruth Wilson botanical collection - all these 194 paintings of West Dorset flora are stunning when seen first-hand! #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowerhour #dorsethour
A selection of midsummer hypericum, the flower of St. John. If you come across some unexpectedly you're supposed to place a bit in your left armpit and make a wish! courtesy of our Wilson botanical collection. #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowerhour #dorsethour
Ok, a couple more. Grass,sedge or rush?(tweet yours with hashtags #grasschallenge 4 #wildflowerhour this Sun17th June 8-9pm @wildflowerhour @BSBIbotany) From L to R, Common #cottongrass, Meadow #foxtail, Shoenus nigrans). #Illustrations done 4 @bbcwildlifemag & @FSCPublications
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 #BotanicMonday #Orchid #womensart #wildflowerhour #dorsethour
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 #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowerhour
We had some snow this morning! Snowdrops ‘Galanthus nivalis’ 😉❄️ #wildflowerhour
Winter twigs from the Wilson Botanical collection reflecting the austere beauty of the season #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowerhour
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) #womeninNatHist #womensart #BotanicMonday #wildflowerhour
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 #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowerhour #Christmas
Sketch, unusually from Fairbourne in Wales, by Diana Ruth Wilson from our archive #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowerhour
Spectacular guelder rose autumn fruiting, Diana Ruth Wilson botanical collection #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowerhour
The caper spurge from our Wilson Collection #BotanicMonday #womensart #wildflowerhour