The Nectarine Plum LIB0039529

The Nectarine Plum LIB0039529Watercolour by William Hooker of the 'Nectarine Plum'. This is taken from one of ten volumes known as Hooker's Fruits which were commissioned by the RHS to help reform the nomenclature of cultivated fruit.

Watercolour on board of Rosa 'Dainty Bess'

Painted at Colesbourne in April 1915

Illustrated plate from a Victorian childrens book 'The Alphabet of Flowers' published by John Dicks of 313

Rosa Félicité Perpétue and Rosa Spectabilis by Graham Stuart Thomas

Watercolour by William Hooker of the Pine variety of strawberry

Close-up of an Alocasia odora leaf at RHS Garden Wisley

Watercolour on paper of the Morocco Plum by William Hooker

The Canal Garden at RHS Garden Wisley

Quercus (oak tree) in woodland

1814-1840's

Watercolour on vellum of Vanilla plenifolia flowers (vanilla) by Claude Aubriet

Colour woodblock print of Iris Uji-No-Kawagiri from volume II of the Yokohama nursery catalogue of Seitaro Arai which specialised in Iris kaempferi