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The plants or useful parts of plants are illustrated. Cheng Yaotian (1736-1796) observed plants in nature and cultivated them. The drawings accompanying his text resemble herbarium specimens, emphasizing flower and fruit details. Wu Qijun (1789-1847)'s Illustrated Catalogues of Plants (1848) also relied on direct observation of plants in nature.
The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour botanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839). The paintings were meant to be of ...
Beckley Park, Oxfordshire: cottage garden topiary formulas taken up for an early 20th-century elite English garden in a historic house setting. One of the older and more familiar kinds of living sculpture, topiary is the art of growing dense, leafy plants and pruning them into a form, or training them over a frame, to create a three-dimensional object.
Pages of written descriptions for each plant were added that included a physical description, growth habit, where and when the plant could be located, how each part could be used, and the other names for the plant provided by Blackwell’s husband. The task of creating A Curious Herbal was immense and took a number of years to complete.
The name "uli" is derived from the Igbo names of the plants ( Uli Ede eji, Uli Nkilisi, Uli Abuba, Uli Nkpo, Uli Aru nmadu) that are processed to produce the dye used to stain on designs. [5] According to local mythology, the practice developed as a gift from Ala , the goddess of earth, who blessed women with the ability to create art, as ...
Pamela Grace Burton (born September 16, 1948) is a landscape architect known for her interdisciplinary approach to private and public projects, bringing together plant materials, art, and architecture.
The most important practical medieval work, still mostly about agriculture, and drawing heavily on classical sources. His experience came from buying a country estate, as a successful lawyer. 'Fromond List', original titled Herbys necessary for a gardyn (c. 1525): list of garden plants; Thomas Hill (born c. 1528).
Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden designers to suggest a natural landscape, and to express the fragility of existence as well as time's unstoppable advance. [1]: 6 Ancient Japanese art inspired past garden designers. [1]: 6 Water is an important feature of many gardens, as are rocks and often gravel.