The Botanical Room Part 24
February where have you gone? PUBLISHED 28th Feb 2023 More notes from the painting table and Framing I have been in a whirl of mistiming...
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billyshowell
- Jan 30
- 6 min
The Botanical Room Part 23 New year-new ideas
This Blog features my new feature 'Notes from the Painting Table' Firstly, Happy new year! I would like to say a big thank you for...
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billyshowell
- Dec 19, 2022
- 6 min
The Botanical Room Part 22 Hurrah for December!
Hurrah for December! The end of a year can bring hope for new beginnings in the new year to follow. With such worrying times across the...
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billyshowell
- Nov 10, 2022
- 7 min
The Botanical Room part 21 - A world of 'colour familiar'
Ode to COP 27 UNFCCC I'll take off my shoes to climb the bent trees, To see through the branches and the uppermost leaves. I will reach...
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billyshowell
- Oct 12, 2022
- 12 min
The Botanical Room part 20 -The joy of finding lost things
I am sorry, this month's blog is late. It got a little lost. Where did I put that book? In the cupboard, behind the nook? Upstairs or was...
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billyshowell
- Aug 27, 2022
- 5 min
The Botanical Room part 19 -Busy little people
The Cow Halter (Something to lead a cow along with) One of the things we did when we were 'young farmers' was to enter a young farmer's...
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billyshowell
- Aug 7, 2022
- 7 min
The Botanical room part 18 - Weddings, anniversaries and flowers
In my bouquet sit roses, Ivy woven in and out, Dark green and tangled. In my hair are daisies. Fragile. Lost amongst the curls and...
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billyshowell
- Jul 25, 2022
- 6 min
The Botanical room part 17 - Intrepid, I am not.
It was 2010, and I'd been invited to teach a class in Sri Lanka. It looked beautiful, and the wonderful thing was I could bring the...
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billyshowell
- Jun 25, 2022
- 8 min
The Botanical Room part 16- Where your heart belongs
Where your heart belongs Not everyone knows where their heart belongs Mine rests in May and June Where the grass turns pink in the...
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billyshowell
- May 30, 2022
- 9 min
The Botanical Room part 15 - RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW - My big day out and past adventures
Last minute, I took myself to RHS Chelsea Flower show 2022 and as well as the wonderful weather and blooms galore, it brought back...
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billyshowell
- May 2, 2022
- 8 min
The Botanical Room part 14 - Language rhymes with sandwich
My blog is officially a teenager and well on its way to being a proper grown-up. There is not much botanical stuff in this blog, just my...
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billyshowell
- Apr 3, 2022
- 5 min
The Botanical Room part 13 - Fibonacci & 13 is my favourite number
13 is great, 1 plus 3 is 4 , which I adore, I think I might love 8 but not that much more. I'm proud to say that 13 is my favourite...
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billyshowell
- Mar 7, 2022
- 5 min
The Botanical Room - part 12 - Best belongings
I began this blog 2 weeks ago, what a long time that seems in the passing of world events. 'Best belongings' seem insignificant now, my...
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billyshowell
- Jan 24, 2022
- 5 min
The Botanical room part 11- Blue and all that you do
Blue is one of the most soothing colours, one of those colours that triggers all kinds of associations, the most obvious thing, at least...
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billyshowell
- Dec 13, 2021
- 4 min
The Botanical room part 10 - It's the most wonderful time of the year
So go the song lyrics, but it's that time of year when we start thinking about all the people we haven't seen through the year. Of...
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billyshowell
- Nov 1, 2021
- 8 min
The Botanical Room part 9 - Being who we are
This month’s blog is not so much about botanical art and my love of it but who we are and how the right personality for the right job or...
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billyshowell
- Sep 20, 2021
- 5 min
The Botanical room Part 8 - Blackberry Stories
Berry lips Teeth and pips Sweet reminiscent Fingers sticky BlackBerry Thorn berry Very Berry days Berry lips Teeth and pips Blackberry,...
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billyshowell
- Aug 9, 2021
- 8 min
The Botanical room part 7 - Hands
Hands My hands, my ordinary, lovely hands, I know you so well, You create and make and clean and move, as though under a wonderful spell....
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billyshowell
- Jun 26, 2021
- 5 min
The Botanical Room part 6 - Meadow
Meadow sweet Meadow grow, Meadow flower Meadow home. When we moved to our new home nearly 2 years ago the garden was overgrown with...
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billyshowell
- Jun 1, 2021
- 6 min
The Botanical room part 5 - Knowing a tree
When I was a child, nature tables were a major 'thing' and one always wanted to bring something in that would be amazingly unbelievable....
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