Ann Loves Plants

Tag: botanical art

  • Dear Gardeners; Happy 2013!

    Here’s to seeing more of the beauty in the world around us. Here’s to creating more art and giving of ourselves to others. Here’s to opening closed doors. Here’s to geminating the difficult seeds in our lives. Now get outside—even if it’s only in your mind.

  • When Gardeners Can’t Sleep I Prescribe This Book: Gardens in Art by Lucia Impelluso

    Pumpkin, Bartolomeo Bimbi, c. 1711, Florence, Museo Botanico. (The rectangular stone at the bottom reads: Pumpkin grown in Pisa in the garden of His Royal Highness in the year 1711. It weighed 45 kilograms or about 100 pounds.) Last night when I went to bed I wasn’t feeling well. In a hurried rush to get…