Growing Things & Creating Things

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Decorative title page and botanical illustrations taken from ‘ Nederlandsch Bloemwerk.’

Published 1794 by T.B. Elwe.

Harvard University Botany Libraries.

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Forsythia and Petunia taken from ‘La Belgique Horticole.’

Published 1851.

Harvard University Botany Libraries.

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I want one of these!

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Today’s project.

A little overdone.

The gnome on the right was white before I baked him. 😂

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🌸Amaryllis blossom finally coming up.

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Félix Vallotton

The Wind

1910

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Recent Craft Project - a new set of weapons for our Clue game. Took the game out to play this holiday season and all we had was the candlestick!

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Hi it’s me! Laura - creator and operator at MariGold’s Creations. I love plants and crafts.

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Anita Toney（American, b.1948）

 Landmark V: Big Sur  etching  18×12″　via

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James McAvoy / Q&A Victor Frankenstein 2015

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Bror Lindh（Swedish, 1877-1941）

Winter night   Oil on canvas  100x 70 cm   via    more

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Wang Muyuu（王牧羽 Chinese, b.1975）

水生万物　2021  纸本设色  220×179cm  via

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Huntington Library..

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Romneya coulteri, known commonly as Matilija poppy, is a perennial from the poppy family native to southern California and Baja California where it occurs in dry regions, often hosting chaparral plant communities. It is fairly common in cultivation especially where water conservation is a concern and is known to spread aggressively via its rhizomatous roots if treated well. The white and yellow flowers are the largest of any plant native to California and was in contention to be the state flower though it was beaten out by its not-too-distant relative, the California poppy. The fruit employs similar structures to many others in Papaveraceae (if you check my earlier post of Argemone glauca you’ll see great similarity!) but has more chambers than most, making it look like a crown. Each pod bears copious, small, classically poppyesque seeds. If you look closely you can see tiny fractures form in the capsule such that even gentle bumping or shaking can break it to pieces, spilling more of the seed that hasn’t already fallen out the top when shaken in a breeze.