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Californian wildflower blooming times

The ultimate Californian deserts in bloom photographic road trip 2024

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 …

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Cherry blossom festival

Cherry blossom festivals 2024

Cherry blossom festivals are soon to get underway all over the northern hemisphere. In some places they are small events, in others much bigger affairs. The more cherry trees in an urban area often denotes the likelihood of a festival. In essence, the purpose of these festivals, adopted from Japanese culture, is to celebrate feelings …

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Top 5 plant happenings in March

So much plant excitement this month, as spring flowers are arriving in greater numbers. Whatever the human defined start time for Spring is, the flowers have their own calendar, as soil temperatures rise we are seeing more and more bulbs and other plants erupting everywhere. A cold snap may slow them down, but not for …

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Hiroshi Sugimoto

Top 5 plant happenings for December

Three exhibitions, a talk and the lighting of a large tree cut down for our enjoyment. Who would ever want to go Christmas sale shopping when you can do any of these things instead? Hiroshi Sugimoto: Still Life, Pace London An exhibition of seventeen large-format photographs from the Japanese artist’s ongoing Diorama series that date …

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Emily Carr, Happiness, 1939

Top 5 plant happenings in November

Trees feature heavily this month, but then it’s definitely a time of year to pay special attention to them. John Constable, Emily Carr, the Woodland Trust, John Muir and Plant Curator itself, all well-known purveyors of these special plants, make up the top 5 plant happenings in November. 1. From the Forest to the Sea: …

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Autumn shades

Top 5 plant happenings in October

Our selection of plant art events is London-centric this month, but with art from Japan and Germany, a talk focused on Scottish flora and apple appreciation in Kent, it’s still a cosmopolitan group. 1. RHS Shades of Autumn Show Anne of Green Gables once said “I’m so glad I live in a world where there …

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Pumpkin sculpture artwork

Pumpkintastic!

There are people that have particularly difficult and painful lives, yet somehow, some are able to go on and bring delight to other people’s.  Yayoi Kusama is one such person and her latest exhibition at the Victoria Miro gallery has filled the uplifting artworks void in London recently left by Matisse’s cut-outs. This is an …

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namqualand flowering carpet

Top 5 plant happenings in September

This September is a special month for viewing en masse flower displays – artificial, cultivated and wild – it has them all. If that was not enough, a couple of new exhibitions are underway. Horst – Photographer of Style, Victoria & Albert Museum, London Although most famous for haute couture imagery, Horst P. Horst (1906-1999), …

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New species of plant

Top 5 plant happenings for August

A huge turkish inspired flower carpet, a monoculture flower installation, exhibitions that stretch the wonderful world of plant art, and a good old british flower market. August is looking good. 1. Poppy at Guildhall Library The talent of flower installation artist Rebecca Louise Law was fully on show this year at The Garden Museum’s Garden …

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Andrew Lyons Plantasia

Artist Andrew Lyons brings Plantasia to life

Plant Curator is yet to visit Kew Gardens’ currently ongoing festival extravaganza – Plantasia – but it is just a matter of time. There is nothing like a nicely designed array of publicity material to lure you in. Using illustrations from the charmingly chimerical artist Andrew Lyons, and creative direction (including name and concept) from 999 …

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