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What Flower
Are You?
This is just one of the many questions that I can answer at the Davis Green Home and Garden Show on March 15th and 16th. I will be featuring new fantastical illustrations and hand-tinted botanical prints. Botanical medicine is the theme for the botanical prints and each will have historical medicinal usages on the back...including information about the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Botanical medicine is at the roots, pardon the pun, of my background as an artist. I have been studying botanical medicine for 20 years now and enjoy weaving plant usage into the stories and illustrations that I create. This is information that is meant to be passed on so come on down and ask questions or just marvel at our rich history of plant usage. And if you've got some time to chat we can talk about Botanical Medicine in the Garden, some common plants with big benefits.
Showing with me will be ceramic artist Barbara Wesson, shown here firing her work with snow surrounding. Barbara combines her background in botany with her artform to create the perfect succulent environment. Barbara is an avid succulent specimen collector, an award winning zeroscape-landscape designer, and has designed zoo exhibits specializing in native vegetation of the Southwest. She knows her plant environments! Her experience led her to develop a succulent pot with just the right environment built into it. She used a special firing technique to achieve this purpose. (They are really beautiful too!) Barbara will also be showing other beautiful houseplant pots and garden accents.
It's going to be a great show with plenty of activities for the kids also. For more information about the show go here.
(The plant shown above is Mullein and NOT the plant that the Pied Piper used! To see more botanical illustrations by Kristen Schwartz go to Faery Medicine.)
