"Eternal Plants" : A Botanical Vision of the Past.

Brilliant blog. Thank you David.
Very interesting text.
Fantastic photos.

I love all the history ~
the wood samples, the pickled pictures. :o)

and .... perfect paragraphs ;o) xxx

Fascinating!

thank you david this blog was great with my morning coffee.

great blog David, very interesting

This exhibitions looks so interesting, it's a shame it's at the other end of the country.

Very interesting David , you had a good day there .........

Enjoyed your blog & photo's very interesting.

That blog was briliant David. Seeing all those diferent types of plants took me back to my A level Botany days in school. I hated school but loved botany, and I still do :o)

Fantastic Blog David thanx 4 the Time uv spent putting it 2 gether i really enjoyed it :) Great Pics & Items :)

brilliant very interesting thanks for posting it.

~It sounds like it was a good visit David~I would have enjoyed it too!
Last year Kew opened the Shirley Sherwood gallery and they have a lovely selection of flower paintings old and new which will be a permanent exhibition of botanical art from their own 200.000 collection and 700 of Shirley Sherwoods own collection.We spent quite a while there.
If you are ever in London worth a visit!

Thanks most enlightening blog.

Many Thanks to you all for the kind comments. As you see, I can always find something to keep me going through winter, whilst waiting for the real gardening season to commence.

Hywel, you studied A-Level Botany? Do you have any memorabilia/memories of those days? If so, it would make a brilliantly interesting blog - get onto it, asap!

Arlene, I visit London c. twice a year. Kew and Wisley are two of my fave places! I do know that the Millenium Seed Bank is in dire need of support (as you have mentioned elsewhere). It is fantastic that we now have the scientific means to preserve seeds of so many plants which may soon become extinct, to survive only as preserved specimens or (in this day and age) in digital photos. Botanical painting/drawing has seen a resurgence (as I saw at last year's Gardening Scotland show), but plant and seed preservation has some way to go!

Tt, as always, I can rely on you to study my paragraphs and alert me to my spelling mistakes! I have corrected the "aritfacts", and also found two more, which you'll never see now, haha!

I don't have much from those days David. It was in the 60's. lol . a long time ago. I'll see if I can find anything.

Hywel ~ you can't be that old ! :o)
I guess you studied A-level botany in infant school ?

David ~
maybe I did notice the other spelling errors. :o)

Thought it tactful to just mention one, and then you would probably spell-check the whole blog. LOL

Good thing u dont Check My Spellings TT ul be on Here 4 ever telling me whats spelt Rong :) lol

Hi Jacque ~
I like the way you spell.
It is unique and fantastic.
Please don't change.
TT xxx
:o)

Id have 2 go 2 College or Uni 2 change my Righting/Spelling TT lol :)xxx

Jacque, you could set up your own Botany College teaching about growing from seeds and propagating plants. Please may I be your first student ? :o)

lol Iv not forgotten about the Seed Sowing Blog TT :) im just a little Busy @ Mo Emptying My Seedling Plugs so i can show how 2 Transfer Seedlings from The Seed Tray when their large enough 2 handle :) Also wating for some seeds 2 Germinate so i can do A Complete Blog On Start To Finish ! :)x

Thanks, Jacque.
David has given me some seed growing advice, also Hywel and others. So I've been lucky.
And Wohlibuli is planning a seedling blog about the square foot system. Should be good !
If you do a complete blog, I reckon that will be welcomed by lots of people. Thanks. :o)

U sound like an expert already TT :) Its great when Members help isnt it :)

I haven't sown the seeds yet Jacque.
I'm very capable of a catastrophe with all of them. :o)

Fascinating blog, really enjoyed reading this. I also took Botany at school along with Agricultural Science (was the only girl in the ag.sci. class, all the other girls decided they wanted to learn to type for some reason!).

Oh, Gillian, another specialist Botany pupil? Ag,sci., too? You must have more to tell, haha!

Now, even I can scan my project jotters from the 1960s, and save my writings and drawings from then. My dear Mum was too sentimental to throw them out, and passed them back to me quite a few years ago. I really love having those, thanks to her, remember when I did them (of course)but still, l find something new, or forgotten, to re-discover.

I loved doing ag.sci. because as soon as the teacher discovered I knew something about gardening he put me in charge of the cacti and the tomatoes in the school greenhouse !
Well done to your Mum for saving those, I have few items left from my school days now. It encouraged me to save more of my own children's things for them.

Very interesting blog and pictures. Much appreciated.

David, I don't know how I missed your blog. Anyway, I've read it now and its wonderful. Well done. It was very interesting to see all the plants in alcohol. It reminded me of going through the UBC pathology specimen lab. Everything in little bottles of formaldehyde. LOL.

Many Thanks, Gilli !

Oh, it's like being at work! When they say, "Can you send this as a specimen?" my heart sinks! Not at the thought of which part of someone is coming my way, but more the size and, therefore, the bigger splash, as it plops into the formalin, along with that chemical smell, lol!

LOL David. I suppose it may be a little difficult to find jars big enough to fit some parts in. And yes, I remember the smell. Ugh!