Wouldn’t this be beautiful, embroidered? (Click to enlarge.) Linnaeus isn’t quite period (1707-1778), but I’ve always been impressed by the drawings of the early Enlightenment.
Here’s the list of flowers:
0200 – Night blooming cereus closes
0500 – Morning glories, wild roses
0600 – Spotted cat’s ear, catmint
0700 – African marigold, orange hawkweed, dandelions
0800 – Mouse-ear hawkweed, African daisies
0900 – Field marigold, gentians, prickly sowthistle closes
1000 – Helichrysum, Californium poppy, common nipplewort closes
1100 – Star of Bethlehem
1200 – Passion flower, goatsbeard, morning glory closes
1300 – Chiding pink closes
1400 – Scarlet pimpernel closes
1500 – Hawkbit closes
1600 – ‘Four o’clock’ plant opens, small bindweed closes, Californian poppy closes
1700 – White waterlily closes
1800 – Evening primrose, moonflower
1900
2000 – Daylilies and dandelions close
2100 – Flowering tobacco
2200 – Night blooming cereus
Or this one, painted in black-n-white on a sundial, would be awesome. I’d love to see a ceramic version that wouldn’t fade.
Via moleskinerie .
Oh, my. How gorgeous!
I saw the list of comments down the side and wanted to read about your GW experiences. Don’t worry about the camera! (I taught the hands on embroidery classes — and if you saw me when I *wasn’t* teaching, there was at least one camera on my person. It’s permanently attached, I think! for aeons of SCA photos check out http://epee.goldsword.com/sfarmer/SCA/
if you’re interested.
I love those Flower Clocks. You’ve just given me a new topic to research! *pout* the pictures aren’t big enough though!
If you haven’t seen it, you may want to see if you can get a lookie-see at Gerard’s Herbal. The one that Dover has is the 1632 edition. 🙂 *gorgeous* woodcuts!
–jerusha, the botanist …