#flower illustrations

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The Bloom Book from Libby Frame Illustration

A collection of 100 floral illustrations. The book is one hundred pages, printed on premium gloss with a soft matte cover.

October bouquets 🎃

[dancerinthestorm]

More gorgeous drawing from "Floral illustrations of the seasons, consisting of the most beautiful, hardy and rare herbaceous plants cultivated in the flower garden, from drawings" (1829) by Margaret Lace Roscoe to cure grey and wet Sunday blues.

Part 1.

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Bibesco, Marthe. Flowers : Tulips, Hyacinths, Narcissi ... London ; The Hyperion Press, 1948.

SB407 .D36 1948

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Tulips for spring! :)

Available to purchase on RedBubble here

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Paul Jones (Australian, 1921-1997) • Fuchsia Voodoo

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[just-art5]

New designs added to my Etsy shop!

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Orchestrating Orchids

These captivating #flowerfriday orchids are from Erich Nelson, Book of Plates of the Genus Orchis. Erich Nelson was a German artist, designer, and botanist. His illustrations have a insurmountable amount of detail which contributed greatly to the understanding of orchids. Throughout his life he completed several volumes of illustrations. [1]

 Above in Orchis pauciflora, or Sparse-flowered Orchid, has a disproportionate size of flower for its stem. Each stem can grow two to eight large flowers with pale sepals and petals. The center of the flower is a deep yellow and is marked with dark red dots. It has been recorded from eastern Mediterranean countries, such as Greece, Crete, Italy, and Algeria.[2]

Orchis ligustica is a hybrid species of Orchis patens and Orchis mascula. Though O. patens is found in the Central Mediterranean landscape down to Northwest Africa. O. ligustica is found in the Mediterranean. [3]

Anacamptis pyramidalis, or pyramidal orchid, do not belong to the genus Orchis, but Anacamptis. They are, however, still a part of the orchid family. The name pyramidalis refers to the pyramidal form their flowers take. This orchid is native to southwestern Eurasia, from western Europe through the Mediterranean region on to Iran. 

This orchid is rare to find in Germany and was declared Orchid of the Year in 1990. On the other hand, this flower is very common on the Isle of Wight and was designated the county plant in 2008. [4]

Images from Erich Nelson, Book of Plates of the Genus Orchis. Courtesy of the Richard Naskali Book Collection.

[1] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/ENEL

[2] https://www.first-nature.com/flowers/orchis-pauciflora.php

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchis

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacamptis_pyramidalis