Rosa Adélaide d'Orléans, Rosa Félicité Perpétue, Rosa Spectabilis Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Rosa Adélaide d'Orléans, Rosa Félicité Perpétue, Rosa Spectabilis Pierre-Joseph RedoutéWatercolour of Rosa Adlaide d'Orlans, Rosa Flicit Perptue and Rosa Spectabilis by Graham Stuart Thomas. Thomas was a partner at Sunningdale Nurseries in the mid 1940s and Gardens Advisor to the National Trust from 1955. In the 1960s he was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal and the Victoria Medal of Honour. Appointed OBE in 1975, G. S. Thomas is recognised as a horticulturalist, rosarian, writer and artist.

lanceolatum (lanceolate spleenwort) by J

Watercolour on paper of 9

A watercolour floral pattern design for wallpaper by Gertrude Jekyll

Watercolour on board of a flower of Brassocattleya John Linford painted by the artist Nellie Roberts

Watercolour on paper by Augusta Innes Withers of 'Chassilas Musque' grapes

Belgian born Redouté achieved success as a painter working for the French royal court tutoring Marie Antionette and later from 1798 was appointed to paint the flowers of Malmaison by Josephine Bonaparte

Watercolour on paper of Tulipa identified as 'von Aerench'

Watercolour on vellum of Anemone plant by Pierre Turpin

Watercolour on paper depiction of a sunflower from an album titled 'Flores a Petro Holsteyn ad vivum depicti' by the artist Pieter Holsteyn

by William Hooker

geologist and respected correspondent of Linnaeus

some including insects and is dedicated to the princesses Louise and Marie d'Orléans