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2022-05-06

With the sun shining and spring well and truly in the air, we’re celebrating the great outdoors with artwork inspired by nature. Shop these beautiful pieces in our online gallery: https://t.co/cL6mYDWSdw

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2022-05-05

Sir Joseph Paxton, one of Britain’s best-known gardeners and architects, began his career in 1823 as a labourer at the Horticultural Society’s gardens at . He falsified his age by 2 years, implying extra schooling. https://t.co/8p6FhFHai7

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2022-05-05

National Gardening Week is a great time for families and new gardeners to get involved and learn about gardening, and a great time for more experienced gardeners to spring back into life and find new skills and inspiration. 🌼🌱

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2022-04-26

Today marks the start of 🌱

Miffy will be spending it tending to the and she planted earlier this year - the shoots are already starting to show!

Read Miffy’s gardening blogs here - https://t.co/8u35krY16a

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2022-04-25

Where would our gardens be if it wasn't for these fantastic creatures?! Rounding off with James Barbut's (d.1791) extraordinary illustrations of English insects in his seminal work Genera Insectorum (1781) available on https://t.co/3qSLZVsMXo

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2021-05-02

Hollyhocks, tulips and hydrangeas - some popular garden flowers from the for The hydrangea specimen is the holotype for Hydrangea aspera collected in Nepal in 1802: https://t.co/IUwYHS9MGp

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2021-04-30

It’s time to get busy in the garden, Miffy!

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2021-04-27

“The Botanist” a charming hand-coloured print from the early 19th century to celebrate

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2021-04-27

To celebrate
How about a beautiful Pansy artwork for your wall just £80 now 😀

https://t.co/nf76kELOdh

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2021-04-26

to you all is coming to an end, so one final for Spring

Subtle yellow tulip will add a touch of calm to your home, ready-framed, so you can put it on the wall

https://t.co/WwtbUrtQEd

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2020-05-02

Columnea ‘Fire Dragon’. Columnea is a large genus of over 200 species from tropical America and the Caribbean and is more commonly known as the goldfish plant. Specimen residing in herbarium

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2020-05-02

To round off we're turning to the beautiful Colouring Diary.

Combining full-colour artwork with original black & white images to colour, it's an item to treasure while recording your gardening journey🌼

Available here: https://t.co/JNVZ2S0gAJ

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2020-05-02

Bonsai pencil sketches from Mattie & Gracie carefully drawn with flowing twisted detail, as Group 3 (yr 6) continued studying Japanese Culture remotely today.

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2020-04-29

Not everyone has a garden for but many of us share our home with plants. We love this 1872 reminder that those before us did too. The Window gardener from the collections of . Download free https://t.co/5QWz24Vs3F

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2020-04-29

Get this fabulous of Leigh Park House and gardens 1862 by C.R. Cotton for planted by Sir George Staunton

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2020-04-29

It feels like has come at a time when people hopefully have a bit more time to spend in their gardens!

If you don't have a garden (like this comms person 🙃), here are some garden/ flora inspired Dovecot tapestries!
https://t.co/WSILmQv16X

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2020-04-29

Continuing today we turn to the witty & helpful Deckchair Gardener by - an alternative guide for those wanting to escape garden chore drudgery and just do the essential necessities🧑‍🌾🌼

Available : https://t.co/idyU3ErA6M

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2020-04-29

We're loving 💕 this beautiful drawing of pansy flowers, decorating the title of an 18th century Lanarkshire estate plan. https://t.co/rzsOIbnSev

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2020-04-28

This watercolour study of a Christmas Rose (Hellebore) is by artist Sophia Davenport c.1827. Do you have a favourite flower or plant?

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2020-04-28