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Brooklyn Florilegium Society
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium Society is a group of 44 of the USA's most accomplished botanical artists, restoring vitality to this centuries-old form. In a multiyear effort that combines botanical art and herbarium specimen, the society is creating a record of plants grown in the garden.

Botanicus Digital Library
Botanicus is a freely accessible, Web-based encyclopedia of digitized 18th and 19th century botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. Focusing primarily on beautifully illustrated volumes from our rare book collection, Botanicus also includes important non-illustrated works.

Images in Living Grass
Working on the principle of denying light to areas of growing grass, artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey create images on grass 'canvas'. They project an image onto turf. Where the light falls, the grass produces chlorophyll, and where it remains in shade it stays a bright yellow colour.

The Botanic Gardens by Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802; Charles Darwin's grandfather) trained as a physician and wrote a lot on medicine and botany, as well as composing poetry. In this two-part poem this exceptional man celebrates all forms of life and even speculates on the origins of the universe in a 'Big Bang' type theory.

Gardens in Islam
Early Muslims were pioneers in establishing botanical gardens and plant collections. This article is a quotation from A. Watson, Agricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World; Cambridge Uni. Press 1983; pp. 117-8.

The Red Shed at Oxford Botanic Garden
The Red Shed was a unique visual arts project that celebrated the botanical diversity of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, the oldest botanical garden in Britain. John Thomson's project examined the Garden's status and history to provide new insights into the garden's contemporary role.

Art Plantae - The Home of Practical Botany for Artists
ArtPlantae.com was created to assist artists with their understanding of botany. It is also valuable to anyone interested in drawing plants (e.g., gardeners, nature guides, illustrators, biology students, informal science educators, and K-12 science teachers).