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You might be familiar with medicinal herbs but what about medicinal flowers? In the 1600s, primroses were used to make a 'salve' - an ointment - for healing wounds!
More surprising uses coming soon in 'Healing Garden'. https://t.co/gnF4c9QmzI

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2018-08-08

Here's a card featuring and from collection to get you in the spirit this Monday morning!

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2017-12-04

Happy from Watercolour on paper of a tulip cultivar attributed to the artist August Wilhelm Sievert from the album 'Hortus florum imaginum' (c.1730)

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2017-11-28

A taster of some of our artwork The early green hairy Engraved by S. Watts after an original by Augusta Withers. The Pomological Magazine, 1828.

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2017-11-22

Just returned from very excited for opening of on history of plant collectors George Forrest, Reginald Farrer, William Purdom + Frank Kingdon-Ward in early 20C China https://t.co/ks6Mvv7Zw4

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2017-11-16

Here's Sydenham T Edwards's (1768-1819) watercolour of Coffee Arabica from for everyone's today!

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2017-09-28

Spotted growing in your local garden/park this not, here's a 1800 watercolour from

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2017-09-25

Did you know August is in the Here’s a 1815 watercolour of an by

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2017-08-25