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Look! It's an Old Man's Beard (Clematis vitalba) with an old man's beard! Watercolour by JRG Gwatkin; owner of magnificent beard is Jacob Bobart the Elder (1599–1680), a German botanist and the first head gardener of Oxford Botanic Garden.

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What better than this stunning illustration of Iris germanica, commonly known as the bearded iris, to follow today’s theme for Kew’s Library and Archives holds illustrations describing both propagated plants and those growing in the field.

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