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Cottage-garden flowers

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Wild flowers of the hedgerow 6Redouté's roses 6Flowers of the cottage garden 6The plants of Greece 6Apples and pears of Herefordshire 6The medicine chest 7Blackwell's Curious Herbal 6Orchid mania 9Georgian and Regency gardens 6Redouté's lilies 6The Temple of Flora 6Bulbs and irises 6Trees and conifers 6Desert plants and living fossils 6Giants of the stove house 6Paxton's greenhouse 6Rhododendrons and magnolias of the Himalaya 7Flowering shrubs 6Van Houtte's Flore des serres 6Climbers and useful plants 6Daisies, primulas and the odd ones out 6
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Curtis's Botanical Magazine 52Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen 7Flora Graeca 6Les Roses 6Les Liliacées 6Jardin de la Malmaison 1The Temple of Flora 6Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse 6The Botanical Register 2The Botanical Cabinet 2Paxton's Magazine of Botany 6Familiar Wild Flowers 6Flora Londinensis 2Flore des serres 6A Curious Herbal 6The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya 2Illustrations of Himalayan Plants 1Reichenbachia 1The Orchid Album 1The Herefordshire Pomona 6
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Elizabeth Blackwell 6James Sowerby 2Thornton's painters 6Ferdinand Bauer 6Pierre-Joseph Redouté 13Sydenham Edwards 1M. Hart 2John Curtis 2George Cooke 2William Jackson Hooker 3Paxton's artists 6Walter Hood Fitch 10Joseph Dalton Hooker 3Van Houtte's artists 6F. E. Hulme 6Alice Ellis and Edith Bull 6Köhler's artists 7Désiré Bois 6Henry George Moon 1John Nugent Fitch 1Matilda Smith 36
By type of plant
Primulas 3Irises 4Rhododendrons 6Daisies 6Fruiting plants 10Roses 8Orchids 11Cacti, succulents & desert plants 6Trees & conifers 17Bulbs 18Lilies 5Climbers 11Carnivorous plants 2Water plants 3Aroids 4Flowering shrubs 25Cottage-garden flowers 18Wild flowers of Britain 9Alpines & rock plants 4Useful & edible plants 32Living fossils 3
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Britain & Ireland 15Europe & the Mediterranean 34Central Asia 4South-east Asia & New Guinea 12Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific 6East Asia & the Himalaya 29The Americas 25Africa & the Atlantic islands 12

Cottage-garden flowers

Sweet peas, nasturtiums, hollyhocks and the other annuals and perennials of an English garden.

Any 3 A4 prints for £20, mix and match.

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Otaksa' (Otaksa hydrangea), plate 1752–1753 from Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe, 1867

Week of 22 June 2026 · Plate 1752–1753

Otaksa hydrangea

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Otaksa'

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Zinnia elegans (Zinnias), plate 138 from Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, 1896

Week of 22 July 2024 · Plate 138

Zinnias

Zinnia elegans

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Dianthus caryophyllus (Carnation) from Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, 1896

Week of 15 July 2024 · 1896

Carnation

Dianthus caryophyllus

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Viola × wittrockiana (Pansy) from Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, 1896

Week of 8 July 2024 · 1896

Pansy

Viola × wittrockiana

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Lathyrus odoratus (Sweet pea), plate 71 from Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, 1896

Week of 1 July 2024 · Plate 71

Sweet pea

Lathyrus odoratus

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Rosa × centifolia 'Parvifolia' (Burgundy rose) from Les Roses, 1824

Week of 24 June 2024 · 1824

Burgundy rose

Rosa × centifolia 'Parvifolia'

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Lonicera periclymenum (Honeysuckle) from Familiar Wild Flowers, 1879

Week of 6 May 2024 · 1879

Honeysuckle

Lonicera periclymenum

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