Rosa 'Buff Beauty', Rosa × odorata 'Mutabilis' Lydia Penrose

Rosa 'Buff Beauty', Rosa × odorata 'Mutabilis' Lydia PenroseWatercolour of Rosa 'Buff Beauty' and Rosa odorata 'Mutabilis' by Graham Stuart Thomas. Thomas was a partner at Sunningdale Nurseries in the mid 1940s and Gardens Advisor to the National Trust from 1955. In the 1960's he was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal and the Victoria Medal of Honour. Appointed OBE in 1975, G. S. Thomas is recognised as a horticulturalist, rosarian, writer and artist.

Watercolour on paper of Malva moschata (musk mallow)

Watercolour by William Hooker of the Pine variety of strawberry

Watercolour on paper of Quercus robur (common oak)

Front jacket illustration of the book 'In My Lady's Garden' by the author Mrs I

Watercolour by Willliam Hooker of Knights Yellow Crab

This is taken from one of ten volumes known as Hooker's Fruits which were commissioned by the RHS to help reform the nomenclature of cultivated fruit

Painted by Lilian Snelling from specimens at Tunbridge Wells and St

The publication in two volumes 'containing coloured figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of apples and pears' was edited by Henry Graves

engraved by Victor (fl

Watercolour on vellum illustration of Portlandia grandiflora by Margaret Meen dated 1789

surprise lily) from one of four bound albums of paintings by anonymous Chinese artists purchased by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1912

Watercolour on paper depicting a passion flower and butterfly taken from an album titled 'Flores a Petro Holsteyn ad vivum depicti' by the artist Pieter Holsteyn