without frail gestures Her yellow parachute detached it slip-ungripped from a wrist All her olives rolled away the wet hyssop was misplaced Its minty twigs shriveled & the bullocks pointless Her matchstick-style carrots on blackened khokhloma She was three kilos high bouncing hard on a rock Puzzling at 1% and then …
Tag: Botany
Botanical Flower mask & Mini Art Prints Based on Curtis’ 1787 Botanical Magazine
These botanical flower drawings are hand-rendered by Alabaster Rhumb and based on those by William Curtis in his 1787 Botanical Magazine. The flowers create a wallpaper effect in our Botanical Flower Mask, while each flower—Aster tenellus, Campanula carpatica, Campanula speculum, Ixia flexuosa, Potentilla grandiflora—is also available from Society6 as a mini art print or mini framed art print. Botanical Magazine Front matter The Botanical Magazine Or, Flower-Garden Displayed: In Which The most Ornamental Foreign Plants, cultivated in the Open …
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Corpse Flower * Amorphophallus titanum * Mask to Protect You & Those Around You in Botanical Style
Our Corpse Flower (Amorphophallus titanum) Wallpaper mask features “Stinky” in his Denver Botanic Garden habitat. A corpse flower in captivity takes 7-10 years to bloom the first time and is unpredictable thereafter. Thus, we felt quite privileged to join the long lines to smell the garbagy, putrefying smell in 2018. I wrote about that bitter-sweet-stinky experience in “Corpse Flower Revisited, Briefly in Bloom at the Denver Botanic Gardens.” Alabaster Rhumb took the photo of Stinky and designed our Corpse Flower …
The Corpse Flower & Goethe, Dying Into Being
*This Distill My Heart about the infamous corpse flower and its unsavory pollinators is a little bit stinky creepy crawly, a little bit anthroposophical sweetness, and was first published at Quail Bell Magazine.* Most people know Goethe as the author of Faust and other literary works. But Goethe was also a keen amateur botanist who was very proud of his scientific writings, despite the fact that they fell flat in his own time–both because he was not a member of …