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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. @OBGHA
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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 #ExploreYourArchive #EYABeards Kew’s Library and Archives holds illustrations describing both propagated plants and those growing in the field.
#EYABeards I'll chip in if I may with this splendid example - Lynton Lamb's 1950 depiction of King Neptune with a beard of seaweed on an Orient Line #menu for crossing the Equator! #Beard #lettering #illustration
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