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Another week, another Today we are featuring a fruit that has been popular for birds and people alike.

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2023-02-11

It’s This week we’re featuring the lovely Chilean bellflower, the national flower of Chile.
Visit our website to learn more about the world's wonderful plants: https://t.co/Pq3QFlCZXM.

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2021-07-09

For Orchidaceae is a limited edition elephant folio published in 1973 by Bourton Press, with by the author, orchidologist Peter Francis Hunt, and illustrator, Mary A. Grierson. This book focuses on plants from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

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2021-07-03

Happy This week's irritating but fascinating feature, the fur-gripping will be familiar to many pet owners.
Learn more about the world's wonderful plants at our growing website: https://t.co/WyLbUZOMN9

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2021-02-27

These late-season blooms from our cut flower garden reminded us of this October plate from Robert Furber's "Twelve Months of Flowers" (1730) in the Oak Spring Garden Library.

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2020-10-03

It’s Today we’re featuring the elegant Swan Orchid - a unique plant that can be either male or female. Want to learn more about the world’s most wonderful plants? Visit our growing collection of digital posters at https://t.co/Pq3QFlUBmm.

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2020-08-15

Botanical illustration and the park: Herbier de la France, ou, Collection complette des plantes indigenes de ce royaume; avec leurs proprie´te´s, et leurs usages en medecine, by Pierre Bulliard, 1780-93, BHL/NYBG........https://t.co/DnECXOfsxe

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2020-06-12

Botanical illustration and the park: Orchid album :comprising coloured figures and descriptions of new, rare and beautiful orchidaceous plants .......11 vols, BHL/Missouri Botanical Gardens............. https://t.co/U9o7SObBUG

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2020-06-05

It's a poisonous + ☠️ 🍄🌼

"A table of vegetable poisons" (1843) describes the characteristics, locales, and effects of poisonous plants & mushrooms found throughout the world. Find it in via ➡️ https://t.co/hkeH2EO3qb

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2020-05-29

The ☀️ is shining in VA today, so here are two cheerful sunflowers – one nourishing a local pollinator in our formal garden, and one brightening the pages of “Hortus Eystettensis” (Basilius Besler, 1561-1629) in our library. Happy

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2020-05-15

For & a few flowers 💐 courtesy of Mary Vaux Walcott & the "Smithsonian" printing process: https://t.co/ii1KT2eKSt

See the whole book, "North American Wild Flowers" in : https://t.co/XQ06Lteb3k

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2020-03-06

Vintage flower inspo for 💐 .

Jane Loudon's "The ladies' flower-garden of ornamental annuals" (1840) is one of several gardening books by the author, who also wrote science fiction: https://t.co/SAQgrtksw8

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2020-02-28

Artist Margaret Meen's botanicals graced the walls of royal palaces & scientific academies. While largely unknown today, her legacy is an important part of British botanical history. explores her life & work: https://t.co/vgueu0msWT

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2020-01-31

Hybrid lilies, a cross between Lilium speciosum and Lilium auratum, cultivated by Mr. G. Thomson. by Walter Hood Fitch for "The Florist and Pomologist" (1878), edited by Thomas Moore. Digitized in by the ➡️ https://t.co/hHZ4v0yAZU

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2019-11-16

For we bring you some plates from our favorite book, The of Great Britain & Ireland. These life size prints were created using the 18th century nature printing process, which the book author is keen to note is the ONLY accurate type of scientific illustration.

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2019-11-16

Pierre Bulliard's "Herbier de la France" (1780-93) organized French plants & fungi according to their medicinal, poisonous, and edible qualities. The was engraved and color-printed by the author. Explore it in via ➡️ https://t.co/gOzsNbNlky

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2019-10-19

The genus name Digitalis means "finger-like" — a reference to the finger-like shape of the foxglove flowers. Explore foxgloves in John Lindley's "Digitalium monographia" (1821), with primarily by Lindley & Ferdinand Bauer ➡️ https://t.co/z2Dxf9YJkx

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2019-10-11

"Recueil des plantes dessinées et gravées par ordre du roi Louis XIV", with over 300 beautiful engraved plates, was never formally published or offered for public sale. Explore the royal gift issue, produced in 1786, in via ➡️ https://t.co/EcWqewmy4t

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2019-09-21

Thistle is often used for members of the tribe Cardueae — especially members of the genera Carduus, Cirsium, and Onopordum. Explore some of these species in J. Sturms "Flora von Deutschland", Bd. 14 (1906), in via ➡️ https://t.co/VIfjJsC7ll

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2019-09-14

You can learn more about Bauer and Lindley's work, "Illustrations of Orchidaceous Plants", on our blog thanks to ➡️ https://t.co/MUnlSVx0tQ

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2019-08-30