RHS Collections
A collection of 45 original watercolours on vellum from an album entitled ‘Fiori Bottan’ depicting cultivated plants including daffodils, anemones irises, tulips and lilies has this year inspired Moorcroft designer, Nicola Slaney to create her Fiori Bottan Collection. ‘Fiori Bottan’ dates from the seventeenth century and the album is Italian but the artist is unknown. It is also a mystery how the album and the original watercolours came to be in the RHS Lindley Collections but thanks to its careful preservation, the watercolours, and Moorcroft designs they have inspired, can be enjoyed by a new generation.
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Also featured on this page are two designs to celebrate the opening of RHS's 5th and newest garden, RHS Bridgewater Gardens in Salford.
Spring Squill JU7 Jug
Scilla verna, commonly known as spring squill, is a flowering plant native to Western Europe. Its st..
Turk's Cap Lily PLQ3 Plaque
Art can call through the years, through centuries, even through millennia, though its voice can beco..
Blue Mist 780/4 Tray
Just occasionally, a piece of Moorcroft will radiate warmth and happiness as well as beauty and desp..
Forsaken Love 265/7 Vase
The mysterious watercolourist introduced to Moorcroft recently by the Royal Horticultural Society (R..
The Potter's Garden 93/10 Vase
For as long as she could remember, Moorcroft designer, Nicola Slaney, had always seen herself as an ..
Nerines 42/12 Vase
What a way to cheer us all up than to think of the flowers called Nerines. The Royal Horticultural S..
Italian Iris 4/5 Vase
Moorcroft designer, Nicola Slaney, had been given the enviable task of converting the work of an art..
bridgewater's bounty 117/7 Vase
Once visited by Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, Worsley New Hall survived a fire and two World W..
