In 1983, over thirty years ago now, The Smith’s released their second single called This Charming Man. The music video for which (see below) was one big flower-fest. Morrissey can be seen waving gladioli above his head, while the floor is carpeted, and the band strewn, with cut flowers. These floralisms were apparent in The …
The New York Public Library has released over 20,000 maps and cartographic works into the public domain. This means they have done a whole lot of scanning and transcribing on our behalf. Due to the elderliness of the publications, they fall outside of copyright legislation and so are available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 …
To celebrate the arrival of long overdue marriage equality legislation in the UK, we thought timely to showcase one of our favourite Clarice Cliff (1899 – 1972) floral patterns – Gayday. This design created by Cliff in 1930 gives centre stage to orange, red and purple flowers derived from some part of the Asteraceae family. …
Pascal Wyse and Joe Berger are two witty, silly, offbeat gentlemen, who go by the moniker of Berger & Wyse when producing some super cartoons together for The Weekend Guardian among others. Of particular interest to us are the talking fruit and vegetable cartoons from their food series. Here are a few of our favourites below, …
If anyone tells you that a scarf printed with plants is not cool, they are tragically misguided and just plain wrong. These floracentric quadrilateral pieces of material look as good on young men as they do on old women, and as good on young women as they do on old men, not to mention kids …
Maybe it’s her name, which Plant Curator can’t stop saying, or maybe it’s the lovely bio on her website that is full of positivity, sweetness and colour, or maybe it’s her intricate, sweeping floral headdress illustrations. Whatever it is, the world can’t have enough Sunny Gus. This Los Angeles based fashion and beauty illustrator is …
Peter Lippmann appears to be a photographer who would greatly enjoy focusing on shooting plants full-time. His personal portfolio has collections of rotting fruit, flowers in jars and assorted cacti. In his commercial work he takes haute couture photographs of expensive shoes, handbags and jewellery, yet even for these assignments he manages to slip in …
Michael Nichols is an award winning National Geographic photographer. Not a bad job one would imagine. At the end of 2012 he was given the minor assignment of taking a picture of one of the biggest trees in the world – The President – a Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) located in the Giant Forest of …
Plant Curator is not really sure what is going on here, it’s all a bit weird but then kind of wonderful. French photographer Erwan Fichou combines topiary with people and elevation and makes elevated topiary people. Apparently, they are not photoshoped in, but are all really up there. He worked with gardeners in Mexico to …
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 …