Happy from Bessie Downes 🌷🌻🌺

Bessie Downes made a unique record of plant species found along the Sefton coast.

Her beautiful watercolour illustrations provide us with a snapshot of the botany of our coast from the 1890s & into the early 20th century.

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It is and so I’m catching up with this old “no deadline” DTIYS challenge that fit today’s holidays: featuring an adorable floral witch 😊 Who said witches could only come out during Halloween? Nobody! 😆

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Here is my next entry to for and the prompt “gardening tools.”
I don’t know about you but I love gardening just like her, and I’m excited for springtime so I can get to gardening again:) 🌸🌻🌷💐🌿🍃🌱🪴

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“The earth laughs in flowers.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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