The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Wonderful Flowers Color-By-Numbers

Author: The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Publisher: Royal Botanic Kew Gardens Arts
ISBN: 9781838576042
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From vibrant orchids to prickly cacti, this color-by-numbers compendium contains over 40 elegant flower designs to complete. This collection is produced in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, one of the most prestigious botanical gardens in the world. It holds extensive archives of botanical art, many of which first appeared in Curtis's Botanical Magazine. These original watercolor designs are featured inside this book, alongside the plants' Latin names. This book also includes a handy color-key on the back-flap, meaning you can flip it out next to your page for easy coloring reference. You can then tone and shade each design with ease and enjoyment and create beautiful botanic masterpieces.

Color By Numbers - Flowers

Author: Else Lennox
Publisher: Chartwell Books
ISBN: 9780785834106
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Rediscover the joy that is coloring by number with these fulfilling floral scenes. Be inspired by the wide wealth of beautiful imagery that Mother Nature provides. With a diverse selection of natural subjects, you can explore and relax into a world of colorful bliss.

Color by Numbers: Animal Kingdom

Author: Arpad Olbey
Publisher: Chartwell Books
ISBN: 9780785834908
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Coloring by numbers isn't just for kids anymore.'With these intricate designs, even a novice artist can make dazzling works of art. This stunning collection of more than 60 color-by-number pictures will keep you entertained for hours on end. With gentle color guidance, Color by Numbers - Animal Kingdom, offers the perfect hues to create ferocious tigers, perfect peacocks, and other favorite members of the animal kingdom.

The Flower of Empire

Author: Tatiana Holway
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199911169
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 339

Book Description
In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding "vegetable wonder"--a huge water lily whose leaves were five or six feet across and whose flowers were dazzlingly white. In England, a horticultural nation with a mania for gardens and flowers, news of the discovery sparked a race to bring a live specimen back, and to bring it to bloom. In this extraordinary plant, named Victoria regia for the newly crowned queen, the flower-obsessed British had found their beau ideal. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway tells the story of this magnificent lily, revealing how it touched nearly every aspect of Victorian life, art, and culture. Holway's colorful narrative captures the sensation stirred by Victoria regia in England, particularly the intense race among prominent Britons to be the first to coax the flower to bloom. We meet the great botanists of the age, from the legendary Sir Joseph Banks, to Sir William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to the extravagant flower collector the Duke of Devonshire. Perhaps most important was the Duke's remarkable gardener, Joseph Paxton, who rose from garden boy to knight, and whose design of a series of ever-more astonishing glass-houses--one, the Big Stove, had a footprint the size of Grand Central Station--culminated in his design of the architectural wonder of the age, the Crystal Palace. Fittingly, Paxton based his design on a glass-house he had recently built to house Victoria regia. Indeed, the natural ribbing of the lily's leaf inspired the pattern of girders supporting the massive iron-and-glass building. From alligator-laden jungle ponds to the heights of Victorian society, The Flower of Empire unfolds the marvelous odyssey of this wonder of nature in a revealing work of cultural history.

Landscape of Dreams

Author: Isabel Bannerman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910258606
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Isabel and Julian Bannerman have been described as "mavericks in the grand manner, touched by genius" (Min Hogg, World of Interiors) and "the Bonnie and Clyde of garden design" (Ruth Guilding, The Bible of British Taste). Their approach to design, while rooted in history and the classical tradition, is fresh, eclectic and surprising. They designed the British 9/11 Memorial Garden in New York and have also designed gardens for the Prince of Wales at Highgrove and the Castle of Mey, Lord Rothschild at Waddesdon Manor, the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk at Arundel Castle in Sussex and John Paul Getty II at Wormsley in Buckinghamshire. The garden they made for themselves at Hanham Court near Bath was acclaimed by Gardens Illustrated as the top garden of 2009, ahead of Sissinghurst. When they moved from Hanham it was to the fairytale castle of Trematon overlooking Plymouth Sound, where they have created yet another magical garden. Landscape of Dreams celebrates the imaginative and practical process of designing, making and planting all of these gardens, and many more.

Naturally Brilliant Colour

Author: Andrew Parker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781842467336
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description

The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Large Print Flowers Dot-To-Dot Book

Author: David Woodroffe
Publisher: Royal Botanic Kew Gardens Arts
ISBN: 9781788887724
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Nothing puts a smile on people's faces like flowers. In this compendium, featuring more than 80 dot-to-dot puzzles, nature's greatest creations come to life: from elegant roses and peonies to striking succulents and delicate chrysanthemums. If you like flowers and you enjoy the calming qualities of completing dot-to-dot puzzles, then this is the book for you! By joining the dots in this fantastic collection, you will recreate a host of gorgeous plants. Includes color plates at the end of the book, offering readers the chance to color in their completed puzzles in as accurate a way as possible. The archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, hold works by some of the greatest botanical artists of all time, including Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Georg Ehret, and Abraham Wendel. Each puzzle in this book is based on these exceptional artworks. Following in the footsteps of the highly successful series of colouring books that Arcturus has produced in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew comes this delightful book of dot-to-dot puzzles. Based on the original artworks that appeared in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, the oldest of its kind in the world, puzzle enthusiasts can indulge their passion for joining up the dots and then colour in the plants and flowers that they create. With more than 85 puzzles to choose from, hours of pleasure await. ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Publishing and The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew have collaborated to create a wonderful selection of botanical-themed arts, crafts and activity books, including origami, dot-to-dots and color-by-numbers.

East African Plant Collectors

Author: Diana Polhill
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
ISBN: 9781842463710
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book is a record of some 2,700 people who have collected herbarium specimens in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, designed as a supplement to the now complete Flora of Tropical East Africa.

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Origami Flowers Book

Author: Monika Cilmi
Publisher: Royal Botanic Kew Gardens Arts
ISBN: 9781839407055
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Create beautiful, ornate flowers with this instructive origami book, with sheets of origami paper included Japanese paper folding, or origami, is an ancient art form that continues to fascinate craft fans and anyone else with a creative streak. From the tulip to the amaryllis, each design has clear step-by-step instructions and accompanying photographs, as well as information on basic folding techniques and materials. The projects in this book are based on flowers held by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London. These gardens originally belonged to the British royal estate and now houses the largest and most diverse collection of botanical species in the world. Kew have contributed to the beautiful origami designs seen in this collection. Featuring a die-cut cover which reveals the origami sheets within, this delightful full-color book serves as an excellent introduction to those who want to experiment with paper-folding and create beautiful and original flower models. ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Publishing and The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew have collaborated to create a wonderful selection of botanical-themed arts, crafts and activity books, including origami, dot-to-dots and color-by-numbers.

The Beauties of Nature Coloring Book

Author: Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781785994661
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Work on your coloring book skills alongside the masters of naturalist art with this amazing collection that features the works of famous illustrators and naturalists, with matching facing pages to color in. The Beauties of Nature Coloring Book contains outlines of flowers, birds, butterflies, and other wildlife subjects, using illustrations from famed flower illustrator Pierre-Joseph Redouté's Selection of the Most Beautiful Flowers, birds from legendary naturalist, John James, Audubon's world famous Birds of America, and exquisite illustrations of fish and butterflies sourced from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library. Completing each picture will help improve artistic skills, and the collection makes a perfect gift for bird- and nature-lovers of all ages.