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From: The floral magazine; comprising figures and descriptions of popular garden flowers. Vol. 1 (1861)

https://t.co/aYwbWiKhxh

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Floral Fridays with Flowers of India, a personal project by .png, that illustrates the state flowers of India using photoinks.

Follow her work at https://t.co/KvGuMNzGTF

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Some beautiful florals to brighten up your day. These illustrations are from a published in 1794 called 'Zoology and botany of New Holland...' by George Shaw, James Edward Smith and James Sowerby.

See the digitised book: https://t.co/uce6RfCfw0

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Happy 🌺 These lovely illustrations are from a collection of silk cigarette cards produced in the early 1900s. The cards were designed so that the silk print could be removed and sewn onto fabric. 🧵🪡

See more: https://t.co/5Swe8CysfF

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🌸 Happy from a few of the many (many!) flower plates in "Vilmorin's Blumengärtnerei" (1896).

This German gardening compendium was issued in 50 parts, over the course of two years with hundreds of illustrations.

In : https://t.co/l5HXcio9Ip

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🌹 A beautiful pair of roses from our collection!

Pierre Joseph Redoute’s celebrated work ‘Les roses’ was published in Paris in 3 volumes between 1817 and 1824.

👀 See a selection of digitised illustrations: https://t.co/5blpkUtlog

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As our collection of Spring Flowers were popular last week, we thought we'd share some more today.

Which ones are your favourites and what would you like to see that we haven't shared yet?

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“I’m too busy working on my own garden to notice if yours is greener” 🌿✨. Playing around with procreate to add more movement to my art.

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For Christmas & a merry a lovely amaryllis bloom from "The floral magazine" (1872) in : https://t.co/7y419Z3pgP

When grown indoors, the bulbs usually flower in December, making them synonymous with the holiday. More examples: https://t.co/pWw280qZeK

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💐Fresh picked for - flowers from "Paxton's magazine of botany" from 's Flickr stream.

Improve their discoverability by adding a species tag, or just collect your favorite blooms: https://t.co/6lj7dNICHj

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🌻Need flower garden inspo? Or just a pretty picture for

In the 1820s, Heinrich Link & Friedrich Otto documented selected plants in the Berlin Botanic Garden, giving us some gorgeous blooms.

Find the whole work in : https://t.co/Fh3ScaN2hM

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And just like that it's again! This week I made a blue bouquet in a decorative coffee pot. It's part of a series I'm doing in the run up to Mother's Day, and I want to keep the background colours quite soft. I'm also part of the way through… https://t.co/CmZcONiVZJ

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For here's a Rushy Tetratheca from "Zoology and botany of New Holland and the isles adjacent" by George Shaw, 1793. (Tetratheca juncea https://t.co/EXCMIhFdlu via

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It’s a bloody scorcher in Melbourne today 😅

Here’s a couple of that look as hot as I feel rn from Curtis’ ‘Botanical magazine’ via

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For , a few gorgeous examples of the work of Maria Sibylla Merian , all on one page. Merian was one of the 1st to show the lifecycle of insects & w/ the plants they inhabited. See more in "De Europischen insecten" (1730) in : https://t.co/2UDXZ66bjM

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whoopsie i uploaded the wrong file
thanks photoshop

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