While flower beds slumber through the British winter, artists are at work capturing their beauty. But the genre is too often under-appreciated ...

The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating ...

On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

Among the beautiful horticulture that characterizes the New York Botanical Gardens’ new exhibit, Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx, the Amorphophallus titanum is a spectacle all ...

Pioneering Irish artists are at the heart of the National Gallery of Ireland’s new exhibition, Drawn from Nature: Irish Botanical Art, spanning almost 300 years. The exhibition celebrates artists who ...

At the Elm Bank Reservation in Wellesley and Dover, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society hosts botanical art classes that teach students to see plants in a new light. Instructor Alice Rosa, whose ...

From flowers in the Andes Mountains to microfungi. A new exhibition at London’s Saatchi Gallery is showcasing some of the world’s most fascinating flora. A new exhibition at London's Saatchi Gallery ...

The art of documenting plants and flowers is having a resurgence, with more and more people wanting to draw what they see rather than take photos. Illustrations of native Australian plants and flowers ...

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all,” wrote John Keats. The famous words come from his 1820 poem Ode on a Grecian Urn, but they are a fitting description for the practice of botanical art and ...

Flourishing: Chinese Chrysanthemum cultivar, from 'The Golden Age of Botanical Art' One of the perks of being a writer who gardens is the books that drop through my letterbox to review. I’m rarely ...