Flower prints from the cottage garden

Flower prints with colour, not just outline

These flower prints are painted with broad brushwork and saturated colour, closer to a gouache painting than a botanical study. Each one is a single kind of flower at its best, the way you see it in a border in June, not pressed flat on a page. If you want the quieter, cream-ground studies, the botanical prints are the other half of the collection.

• The Tulip Bed. A spring bed of coral, plum, pink and cream tulips with blue forget-me-nots.
• Peonies. Large pink and white peonies with round buds and dark leaves.
• Foxgloves. Tall pink and white foxglove spires at the edge of a border.
• Alliums. Purple allium globes on tall stems among grasses and ferns.
• Lupins. Spikes of pink, purple, cream and apricot lupins in a border.
• Hollyhocks. Tall rose, maroon and yellow hollyhocks against a pale brick wall.
• Irises. Tall bearded irises in deep purple and pale blue.
• Poppies. Oriental poppies with crumpled scarlet and coral petals and dark centres.
• Ranunculus in a Jug. A jug of apricot, pink and cream ranunculus on a garden table.
• Hydrangeas. Mophead hydrangeas in blue, mauve and pink in loose brushwork.
• Cornflowers and Daisies. Bright blue cornflowers with ox-eye daisies and grasses.
• Sunflowers. Tall sunflowers with golden heads against a blue late-summer sky.

Wildflower prints and meadow flowers

For something looser than a cultivated border, Cornflowers and Daisies sets blue cornflowers among ox-eye daisies and grasses, and The Wildflower Path follows a mown path through a meadow of daisies and knapweed. Poppies sits between the two: a garden poppy with the colour of a field one.

Choosing a flower print for someone

Pick the flower they grow, not the one you’d choose. A peony grower will notice a peony; a dahlia grower lifts their tubers every autumn and talks about them all winter, so One More Dahlia’s the one. For a birthday, the birth flower prints pair two flowers for each month.

Sizes, frames and rooms

Bright flowers carry across a room, so they hold up at the larger sizes. A single A2 or 50 x 70 cm print over a fireplace or a bed makes the most of the colour. Smaller sizes suit a kitchen shelf or a bedside wall. Every print page shows the sizes your choice comes in, and the size guide helps with the wall.