The Botanical Room 33 -Travels
Hello, I'm finally back from my big journey to the other side of the earth. I am not a beach kind of girl, so from a shady spot, I loved...
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billyshowell
Nov 2, 20236 min read
The Botanical room part 32 - I'm howling to the moon again
I'm howling to the moon again Her patience is unending She listens every month to me Her magnificence, my mending. Her bright, full face...
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billyshowell
Oct 3, 20237 min read
The Botanical Room Part 31 'Applesome'
This week, I painted an apple which had the most beautiful pattern. It almost looked like a little planet. The lovely russeting looked...
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billyshowell
Sep 3, 20238 min read
The Botanical room part 30 - Place
This month's blog covers place and paper. I hope this finds you well and busy. I Found a Place I found a place where the deer had lay the...
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billyshowell
Aug 1, 20235 min read
The Botanical room Part 29- laughing
Welcome to August. Life can sometimes be very serious, so I have decided that this month's blog will be about laughing. If I lived in my...
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billyshowell
Jul 4, 20237 min read
The Botanical Room part 28 'There are no pantomimes in June'
Hi to July Farewell to May, farewell to June, I loved you so but you passed too soon. May I have three English Mays more than I'm...
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billyshowell
May 29, 20235 min read
The Botanical Room Part 27
Drawing I like thinking about drawing as well as the action itself. I like imagining the line before I actually put a pencil to paper. I...
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billyshowell
May 2, 20238 min read
The Botanical room 26 -College Days
To Art or not to Art, that was the question. My blog is late again but this time I can blame my countryside internet, which has been...
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billyshowell
Apr 2, 20238 min read
The Botanical Room part 25 Planting for the love of Nature & 'The Call of the Crow'
(This should have gone live in March, it's okay, I am already sitting on the naughty step ;)) When my husband and I were bringing up our...
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billyshowell
Feb 28, 20238 min read
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, 20236 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 202212 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20228 min read
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, 20229 min read
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, 20228 min read
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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