Secret Gardener

Tableau Physique des Andes et Pays Voisins 1805 This is an elevation profile of equinoctial plants of the Andes Region, using the cutaway technique. Drafted by ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT (1769 �...

https://secretgardening.wordpress.com/2021/03/25/geographie-des-plantes-equinoxiales/

‘The Falcon’s Bath’ (ca. 1400)   ‘And all her silken flanks with garlands drest’— But we are coming to the sacrifice. Must those flowers who are not yet gone West? May those flowers ...

https://secretgardening.wordpress.com/2020/04/26/vlamertinghe-passing-the-chateau/

Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472 – 1553) “To divide the united, to unite the divided, is the life of nature; this is the eternal systole and diastole, the eternal collapsion and expansion, th...

https://secretgardening.wordpress.com/2020/04/12/all-is-leaf/

by Elizabeth Pennisi for the American Association for the Advancement of Science For years, cognitive scientist Lars Chittka felt a bit eclipsed by his colleagues at Queen Mary University of Lond...

https://secretgardening.wordpress.com/2020/02/12/the-humble-bee/

Georges Michel (1763-1843)   by Hope Jahren A seed is alive while it waits. Every acorn on the ground is just as alive as the three-hundred-year-old oak tree that towers over it. Neither the see...

https://secretgardening.wordpress.com/2018/08/11/study-of-a-tree/

Order 3. Lepidoptera William Bartram (1739 – 1823)   “Robert Patterson (1802-1872) was a remarkable naturalist you’ve probably never heard of. At the age of 19, he co-founded the Belfast ...

https://secretgardening.wordpress.com/2018/07/09/letters-on-the-natural-history-of-the-insects-mentioned-in-shakspeares-plays/

Detail, Scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Edwin Landseer (1802 – 1873)   Everything changes, nothing dies: the spirit wanders, arriving here or there, and occupying whatever body it pleas...

https://secretgardening.wordpress.com/2018/06/22/a-midsummer-night/

George Stubbs (1724 – 1806), Associate Member of the Royal Academy   The first depiction of an Australian animal in Western Art, this portrait was commissioned by Joseph Banks and said t...

https://secretgardening.wordpress.com/2018/05/05/the-kongouro-from-new-holland/

Breadfruit, engraving after a drawing by Sydney Parkinson (c. 1745 – 1771)   Eye-opening Records of Colliding Worlds by Jonathan Jones, for The Guardian Sydney Parkinson drew the weird anim...

https://secretgardening.wordpress.com/2018/05/05/transit-of-venus/

Acacia John William Lewin (1770 – 1819)   The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. John Muir  (April 21, 1838 – December ...

https://secretgardening.wordpress.com/2018/04/21/thorns/