Stories
- Comic
Flowers
Find joy in all the yawning, stretching, arching, flirting flowers around you.
- Book extract
What the wind can bring
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
- Article
Foraging for a taste of the past
Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.
- Article
Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Flower growing
Date: Mid 20th centuryReference: RET 1/8/2/8/10Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Flower, L. N.
Date: 1860Reference: MS.1716/6Part of: Collectanea: Alchemy, Occult Sciences, etc.- Books
Flower hunters / Mary Gribbin & John Gribbin.
Gribbin, Mary.Date: 2008- Books
Flower lore and legend / by Katharine M. Beals.
Beals, Katharine.Date: 1917- Books
Flower essences : an illustrated guide / Carol Rudd.
Rudd, CarolDate: [1998]