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The Florilegium. Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. Celebrating 200 Years
A florilegium of contemporary botanical paintings of historically significant plants has been created by the The Florilegium Society at The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney and donated to the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust. Established botanical artists are invited to join the Society and the paintings accepted are of the highest standard, botanically accurate and painted as individual responses to the subject.The Society has published the Florilegium to celebrate the 200 year history of Australia's first botanic garden. Each of the 87 paintings has a full colour plate and is accompanied by a botanical description and text describing its place in the history of the Gardens through the co...
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The Florilegium
The Florilegium Society at The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney was formed in 2005 to create a unique collection of contemporary botanical paintings of significant plants that represent the history of the living collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust.This beautifully produced book is a celebration of 200 years of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney,showcasing the botanical richness of these Gardens through the eyes of 64 exceptional Australianand international botanical artists. The stunning botanical paintings are presented chronologicallyaccording to the date of each species' introduction to the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney and its BlueMountains Garden, Mt Tomah and the Austra...
200 Years
This is the garden that gave the world the Wollemi Pine previously known only from 40,000 year old fossils. The garden that brought to Australia the worlds biggest, stinkiest flower the penis-shaped Giant Stinking Arum. Early in 2016 Sydneys Royal Botanic Garden one of the worlds best will turn 200. A year of fanfare and celebrations will draw ......
Botanic Endeavour
The collection of recent botanical paintings by the artists of the Florilegium Society at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney which link the historic Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander herbarium specimens to the Living Collections of the three Gardens of the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust on the 250th anniversary of their botanical exploration during Captain Cook's voyage in HMB Endeavour. The intention is to draw attention to the time and place of their collection, inviting reflection on what they mean to science, to the Indigenous peoples, to those collecting them and to the Gardens now.
Poetry of Place
In this book, the author - who is a poet and a botanist with an interest in history, explores the memorials, buildings, roads, gates, holes in the ground, and special plantings that litter one of the world's most spectacularly sited botanic gardens.
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