A collection of exquisite illustrations of Colorado plants, from foothills to alpine tundra, drew accolades at London’s Royal Horticultural Society Botanical Art Show in February. The artists — 10 ...

To plant-lovers accustomed to full-color photographs in glossy gardening magazines, the botanical drawings in the recently mounted “Flowers from the Royal Gardens of Kew” exhibit at first glance may ...

Think of botanical illustrators, and you might envision a world of medieval herbalists, tulip or orchid collectors, or affluent young women of the 17th and 18th centuries making detailed drawings and ...

Not much is known about Edward Miall Skeats. A native of England, he came to New Mexico in 1890 at the request of Charles B. Eddy — for whom Eddy County is named — to help locate sites for water wells ...

In the 19th century there weren’t many women who would happily stride into the middle of a bog or travel to remote countryside to collect a rare wildflower. But Kate Furbish, a botanist from Brunswick ...

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all,” wrote John Keats. The famous words come from his 1820 poem Ode on a Grecian Urn, but they are a fitting description for the practice of botanical art and ...

A new traveling exhibition, “Losing Paradise? Endangered Plants Here and Around the World,” will open at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Aug. 14. The exhibition, a collaborative ...

Botanical illustrations by their very nature are precise and elegant. Often this type of drawing depicts a plant removed from life, a specimen selected for scientific study or display. Alternatively, ...

The art of documenting plants and flowers is having a resurgence, with more and more people wanting to draw what they see rather than take photos. Illustrations of native Australian plants and flowers ...

Barry Rosenthal’s series of jewel-toned garbage collections sheds new light on litter. Before photography and the Internet, developments in botany depended heavily on artists, rather than on foragers ...