Rachel Ruysch

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Jennifer Jewell: “I see hope and value in a self-sustaining cycle of living with plants, loving plants, learning plants, growing plants, knowing plants, interpreting plants.” Photograph: John Whittlesey
Gardening women: meet Fionnuala Fallon’s horticultural heroes

  We all have our heroes and it’s not surprising so many of mine belong in one way or another to the world of plants. They include gardeners, de(...)

Species tulips naturalised in grass in Angela Jupe’s Offaly garden. Photograph: Richard Johnston
Tulips thrill in the late spring garden

Is there a flower more beautiful than the tulip? Certainly I can’t think of any other spring bloom that combines such opulence with such elegance, suc(...)

Detail of tulip ‘Julia Farnese’ rose feather (1976) by Rory McEwen. Watercolour on vellum, 53 x 51 cm. Reproduced by kind permission of the estate of Rory McEwen
Exotic, expensive beauties that live only in still life

If you’ve ever taken a horticulturally-minded, beady-eyed look at some of the wonderful 17th- and 18th-century floral still-life paintings by Dutch a(...)