Star magnolia, Magnolia stellata If you really want to remember a plant, draw it! I always say that if you really want to remember a plant, draw it. There’s nothing more effective to really make you look deeply at a plant than spending hours drawing it. I don’t know of anything better to imprint it on […]
Remembering Rhubarb. As I prepared my rhubarb illustration (Rheum rhabarbarum) for the “Digging In” gardening column I thought back to my childhood home and the rhubarb patch in our garden. We had a lovely big garden -by garden I also mean “yard” , as it is known here in the U.S. Half was well tended and […]
Botanical illustration of the beautiful Kalmia latifolia, mountain laurel. One of the many botanical illustrations I drew in my first year for the “Digging In” gardening column of the Washington Post was Kalmia latifolia or mountain laurel. In the ten years of botanical illustration for the newspaper I drew this flowering native shrub twice. I […]
Hubei lily, Lilium henryi © Aislinn Adams A botanical illustration with an Irish connection The botanical illustrations I’ve created for the Washington Post’s “Digging In” column usually have absolutely no connection to Ireland. Gardening in the Washington D.C. area can be a very different experience to gardening in Ireland. The D.C. weather is full of […]
Pruning Hydrangea – my first botanical illustration for the “Digging In” gardening column in the Washington Post. Looking back on ten years of illustration –botanical, entomological and more! As I complete ten years of botanical illustration for the “Digging In” gardening column of the Washington Post I am more prone to remembering. Looking back on […]
My last botanical illustration for the Washington Post- Southern magnolia Alta As I write this, my first blog, I also work on my last illustration for the “Digging In” gardening column of the Washington Post newspaper. I have been producing a weekly botanical illustration for this column for ten years. My last illustration is of […]
