Philately WILL get you everywhere if you are in need of a quick run through of the state flowers of the U.S. What nicer way to learn than by exploring the marvellous postal stamps below. You can even learn the state birds too while you are at it. In philately, commemorative stamp design is an …
Vegetal Passion is an online exhibition well worth a visit. To do this, you need to navigate to the URL given and take a look. Instead of walking around a room passively, you scroll and shift images and objects creating your own focal points and passageways through it, while at the same time enjoying the observations …
There is only one real drive in Vancouver and it is called Commercial Drive. A place where cultural difference and creative endeavour form the cornerstones of community. There are uniquely painted walls all along the Drive, but from around Adanac Street to 1st Avenue there is a particularly high density of street art sprayed and sloshed across …
The Royal Academy of Arts has just got a new website. It’s a rather jazzy affair and continues the current website design trend of displaying information in a multitude of varying sized teaser boxes across a full-width page like patchwork. This design allows for a fast inspection of a lot of stuff with just a …
For those of us that get creative inspiration from plants – festivals, shows and even parades are always worth a visit. At such events we either get to see a great diversity of plants or just loads and loads of plants, and if we are really lucky, both. Sometimes the setting is indoors in small, …
Last week’s International Women’s Day heralded the dawn of a new temporary exhibition in the Images of Nature gallery at the Natural History Museum (London, UK). All year round this exhibition space displays art works from its extensive (apparently over half a million pieces are held here) and eminent botanical and zoological collections. Some of it …
Following on from the first post in this series of three where we presented plants in the genera Acanthus to Dahlia, we now give you Daphne to Origanum. This second batch of 43, free vintage botanical plant images come again via the super Biodiversity Heritage Library. See previous post for publication and species name authentication details. Many of …
But Christmas has passed we hear you cry. Well, sorry but garlands are going to be big all year round in 2014. You heard it here first. If Plant Curator was ever tempted by an alternative career it would be that of a garland maker. Pulling together lots of discarded or sustainably sourced plant bits …
It is always the way that when you spend ages evaluating the Top 10 plant inspired album cover artworks of all time, the very next week another one will come along that you like even more. Just try it. Anyhow, rather than update an old post Plant Curator decided to create a new one. So today …
Plant Curator often daydreams about spending a few months at this time of year doing a photographic tour of the Californian desert wildflower regions. The ultimate plant lovers road trip would involve going south to north, from desert hotspot to desert hotspot, catching like dominos, the peak blooms in each place. In reality it’s not …