The Florilegium: The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney: Celebrating 200 Years

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The Florilegium: The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney: Celebrating 200 Years Author: Format: Paperback First Published: Published By: Florilegium Society at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney
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Pages: 224 Illustrations and other contents: 90 Illustrations, color ISBN: 9781842466490 Categories: ,

A major collection of contemporary botanical illustration. Forty-one Australian and twenty-three overseas artists have contributed by invitation one or more works of significant plants in the three Sydney botanic gardens. This collection is published to celebrate the bicentenary this year of the gardens. Lovely illustrations, very well-produced.

The illustrations were exhibited at the Museum of Sydney from July to October 2016, and at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at the RBG, Kew, during the first half of 2018.

Each of the 87 paintings has a full colour plate and is accompanied by a botanical description and text describing its place in the history of the Gardens through the collectors, the botanists, horticulturalists and directors, and to changing horticultural fashions. Examples of the vegetation that grew around Farm Cove in 1788 and those collected by the intrepid early superintendents Charles Fraser and Allan Cunningham represent the early part of the Garden’s history. Introductions under Charles Moore and J H Maiden form a significant part of the collection. The late 20th century scientific work at the Gardens and plants associated with the establishment of the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden at Mt Tomah and The Australian Botanic Garden, Mt Annan.Included is text about the florilegium society, an historical overview of the Gardens and biographies of the 64 artists and the authors.

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Colleen Morris has a Masters in Heritage Conservation from the University of Sydney and was the National Chair of the Australian Garden History Society 2003- 2009, and her publications include Terrace Houses in Australia (1999), major entries for The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens (2002), and Lost Gardens of Sydney (2008). Louisa Murray is the Flora Botanist based at the National Herbarium of New South Wales, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. She primarily works on PlantNET, the database of the Plant Information Systems in the herbarium as well as updating all botanical information and distribution data for the Flora of New South Wales (NSWFloraOnline). She has a wide knowledge of plants and has travelled extensively in New South Wales and Australian, collecting specimens for the herbarium. She is particularly interested in daisies and violets.