Falling in love with this and the rest of Lucie Rice’s prints. Girl has got it goin’ on. Seriously. She does. 

heaveninawildflower:

Crocus by Crispin van de Passe ll from Hortus Floridus 1614.

Source - theantiquarium.com

We’ll be seeing these dudes before too long!

wallacegardens:

Scilla (1765), Herbarium Blackwellianum, by Elizabeth Blackwell.

drawnblog:

(via Finnish illustration/design studio Polkka Jam, aka Kristiina Haapalainen and Sami Vähä-Aho)

wallacegardens:

Giant Sequoia, National Parks Conservation Association.
April 21-29, 2012 is National Parks Week: free admission into all National Parks, this week only.

“IT’S NOT LIKE WE CAN MAKE NEW ONES.” It doesn’t get more simple than that. 

genusspecies:

Pyracantha coccinea is the European species of Firethorn that has been cultivated in gardens since the late 16th century.

Firethorns are thorny evergreen large shrubs in the family Rosaceae.

 (via Rosaceae - Crataegus pyracantha.)

lucyengelman:

ive got a new idea for Zach perhaps….maybe i’ll fool around with it this weekend.

genusspecies:

Red Raspberry -  Rubus idaeus 

The beautiful colour-plates were lithographed in Belgium by G. Severyns. They depict flowers and fruit then growing in The Netherlands. Publication started in 1875 on the initiative of the Pomological Society at Boskoop. (via Rosaceae - Rubus idaeus Hornet Chilische.)

fer1972:

The Seven Ages of Dandelion by vonMonkey

enajurov:

A job that didn’t work out in the end. A calendar where you can track your tree’s growth through the year. Go plant some trees! 

victoriawaits:

This little dude is ready for hanging up at my exhibition! For sale :)

steelylaceribbon:

Ferdinand Bauer, Brunonia Serica - Floral Illustrations Of New Holland

danmeth:

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around.”
-Terence McKenna

wallacegardens:

Amaryllis illustration: Matilda Smith (1885) for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine.