At the Elm Bank Reservation in Wellesley and Dover, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society hosts botanical art classes that teach students to see plants in a new light. Instructor Alice Rosa, whose ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “There really isn’t much growing at the moment,” says Caryn Hibbert, owner of Thyme hotel, a bit apologetically ...

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 ...

Jane explores an exhibition of botanical art to learn about how talented artists create highly detailed works while representing botanically accurate plants. Sue Foran, the curator of the exhibition, ...

On Friday Mar 31 st the Biology Department gathered to celebrate a Botanical Drawing Showcase featuring the work of my students in BISC 337-Plant Biology. I was extremely proud of the students as the ...

When Europeans arrived in India, they were dazzled by the subcontinent’s exotic flora and fauna. The colonizers thus started commissioning local artists to paint these. In the absence of the ...