PEONY

drag

NINA FLOWERS

Thought she was a flower lady, actually he's a tattooed drag queen. Featuring on R-Paul's new reality TV show.

MARGARET MEE

MARGARET MEE
Botanical Illustrator
1909-1988

KLIMT

The Dancer, 1916

GUSTAV KLIMT

Because it's a face, I'LL EAT EAT

HANGING GARDENS of BABYLON and the HANGING BASKET OF PADDINGTON

The Indigo Hotel, Paddington

(6m x 3m)

Metro, Jan 19th 2009

According to 'accounts', the gardens were built to cheer up Nebuchadnezzar's homesick wife, Amyitis. Amyitis, daughter of the king of the Medes, was married to Nebuchadnezzar to create an alliance between the nations. The land she came from, though, was green, rugged and mountainous, and she found the flat, sun-baked terrain of Mesopotamia depressing. The king decided to recreate her homeland by building an artificial mountain with rooftop gardens.

SAGAT

still looking for it

ROSES 1

I'm not the Loving Kind 2008

Girls Aloud 
Morocco 2009

FLOWERS

Miu Miu Advert 2007

Sister Sister 1994

The Observer Supplement 2008
Girl with Roses 1948

LUCIAN FREUD

FLOWERS ON HOLIDAY

With her dog, Mister.

ANNE de VRIES

Blossom Heads

2007

ANNE DE VRIES

http://www.annedevries.info/

Loosing your bread basket

Bette Midler THE ROSE

MARGRIET SMULDERS

Bloody Hell, Each Man 

2007
Lucy Lures, Tulips for YB

2008

MARGRIET SMULDERS

http://www.margrietsmulders.nl/

BLOW UP

Blow up - Ori Gersht

2007
http://www.mummeryschnelle.com/pages/oriselector.htm

THOMAS HOOD loves ROSES

I will not have the mad Clytie,

Whose head is turn'd by the sun ;

The tulip is a courtly queen,

Whom, therefore I will shun ;

The cowslip is a country wench,

The violet is a nun ;

But I will woo the dainty rose,

The queen of everyone.

The pea is but a wanton witch,

In too much haste to wed,

And clasps her rings on every hand ;

The wolfsbane I should dread ;

Nor will I dreary rosemarye,

That always mourns the dead ;

But I will woo the dainty rose,

With her cheeks of tender red.

The lilt is all in white, like a saint,

And so is no mate for me,

And the daisy's cheep is tipp'd with a blush,

She is of such low degree ;

Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves,

And the brooms betroth'd to the bee ;

But I will plight with the dainty rose,

For fairest of all is she.

Thomas Hood

A Victorian Anthology 1837 - 1895

Wolfsbane or Aconitum belongs to the buttercup family and has sharp edges like teeth and spiralling petals.

www.mauways.co.nz/ catalog/index.php?cPath=25

WILD FLOWERS - in dry places

Growing Wild flowers in the Sonoran Desert

LYNN WALSH

Rocket/Rockette/Arugula/Rucola growing wild after the first rain in 6 years in the Sahara Desert, Morocco - January 2009

FLOWERS

SFA

 "Flowers" by Sweet Female Attitude, directed by Pete Nilsen and Ryan David - April 2000

STREET FLORIST

London, 7 Dials - December 2008