Comments on: Garden Extracts https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/05/18/garden-extracts/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 18 May 2016 17:53:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: pauline taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/05/18/garden-extracts/#comment-1089214 Wed, 18 May 2016 17:53:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=145886#comment-1089214 I love all botanical drawings and paintings as this is what I was taught to do by the late, great Richard Chopping, with occasional advice from John Nash. Dickie was an extremely good and patient tutor, and I treasure one of his paintings, that he did for a proposed book of all British wild plants, which he gave to me before he died. Sadly the book turned out to be far too costly for the publishers so it was never finished. Very sad as it would have been so beautiful.

Thinking back to another recent piece GA, I always think that scent sounds much more evocative than perfume. All, or most flowers have perfume, but from them we can make lovely scent!! But I like the sound of Garden Extracts, I’m sure it will be memorable.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/05/18/garden-extracts/#comment-1089186 Wed, 18 May 2016 10:36:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=145886#comment-1089186 Please bear with me if I “intrude” on this beautiful post, with a slightly-off-topic request:
Back in the early Eighties, my husband and I made a trip to London and one of the pure delights was a very definitive exhibit at the V&A about gardening. In recent years, I have wondered about the title of the exhibit and whether there was an exhibition catalog, etc. As I recall (!!??) the exhibition area was replete with actual plantings and garden beds (indoors), as well as sheds and other gardening accoutrements and regalia. The creativity of the exhibition was off-the-charts and now that I am older-and-wiser, I would love to find out more. Does anyone else share the memory of the exhibit, or have any info about the title, year, catalog, etc?
Thank you for the incredible botanical images above — Spring has been quite reluctant in the Hudson River Valley this year, and it has been too cold to start my containers. But these images remind me that it will be worth the wait.

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/05/18/garden-extracts/#comment-1089184 Wed, 18 May 2016 09:41:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=145886#comment-1089184 The old prints are wonderful. Wish I lived nearer so that I could join in. Valerie

]]> By: John Barrett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/05/18/garden-extracts/#comment-1089180 Wed, 18 May 2016 06:54:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=145886#comment-1089180 The Garden Extracts events at the fringe should be good, wish I lived nearby. The set of botanical prints shown here are quite breath-taking. Original botanical prints of similar quality can also be seen at Kew Gardens. Best wishes to Stephen and Co. John

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