Blooms Collection

Annual and Biannual flowers
A wonderful array of garden flowers in bloom including chrysanthemums, foxgloves (digitalis), hollyhocks, pansies, sweet peas, gladioli, iris, petunias and nasturtiums. Date: 1930

Flower Market - Nice, Cote d Azur, France
Traditional Flower Sellers stall - Flower Market and L Opera - Nice, Cote d Azur, France. Date: circa 1920s

The Butterfly by Barribal
Gorgeous and sumptuous illustration by William Barribal featuring a woman dressed as a butterfly. Date: 1914

Sita Finds Rama
SITA finds RAMA (seventh avatar of Vishnu) among the lotus blooms : at first he suspects her of infidelity, but the pair are reunited and live happily ever after

John Grooms Crippleage and Flower Girls Mission. Blind and Crippled Girls making artificial flowers

Decorative Roses
A decorative arrangement of roses with other flowers

The Flower Market - Nice, France (see: 10438642). Date: circa 1910s

Making a posy of summer blooms
A mother and daughter make a posy of summer blooms in a meadow. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Portrait of a Young Girl
Amid the Blooms of Beauty She is Rose'. Date: 1902

Iris Garden, Isogo, Yokohama, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Red Blooms by Annie L. Pressland

Painting of a young girl wearing a wide-brimmed hat
A postcard reproduction of an unattributed painting of a young girl wearing a wide-brimmed hat holding a lrge nuch of flowers. Date: circa 1910s

Girl in a black dress
Glamorous young lady in black crinoline style dress & matching hat, admiring blooms on a rose tree. Art deco style. Date: circa 1920

Sun and Sunflowers Date: 1885

Tulip Botanical Date: 1652

Primula Floral Date: 1911

Odontoglossum Williamsianum Date: 1882

Phalaenopsis Rosea Date: 1882

Repeating Pattern - Floral Assemblage - dark blue background. *PLEASE NOTE that the magifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Lady sniffing some blooms
Lady sniffing some scented red blooms... Date: circa 1930s

Olive grove, Thassos, Greece
Subtle mixed colours of blossom and poppies in an olive grove in Thassos, Greece. The photograph looks like a painting by a French Impressionist Date: circa 1995

Hokusai woodcut - Cuckoo and Azalea
Reproduction of a woodcut by Katsushika Hokusai (1760 - 1849) entitled: Cuckoo and Azalea. Date: circa early 19th century

Rhododendron Time in Hyde Park, London, 1926
Illustration showing Hyde Park in spring, with adults and children promenading along the walkways admiring the rhododendron blooms, 1926

The co-proprietor of Blooms kosher restaurant
Mrs Bloom, co-proprietor with her husband of Londons iconic kosher restaurant. All around her, the bright, cheery, noisy and busy atmosphere which you were likely to find there in the 1960s

The Sketch front cover 1955, Chelsea Flower Show
Front cover of The Sketch featuring an illustration of two elegant ladies among the blooms at the annual RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Date: 1955

Bird of Paradise among exotic blooms
A Bird of Paradise (with an impressive pale blue tailfeather) perched amongst exotic blooms. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Traditional Flower Seller - Nice, Cote d Azur, France
Traditional Flower Seller - Flower Market - Nice, Cote d Azur, France Date: 1910s

Pretty Young Flower Seller - Nice, Cote d Azur, France. Date: 1910s

A Champion Hybrid Freesia (Ragionieri) from the Antibes
Hybrid Freesia (Ragionieri) from the Antibes (a Mediterranean resort in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France) which won the gold medal at the 1911 Cannes Exposition Horticole

Happy Easter - Norwegian card, printed shortly after the German Surrender in WW2. Date: 1946

Flower Market at Cannes, France Date: circa 1907

Flowers - Open blooms - unknown flowers displayed in a vase. Part of Box 6 Boswell Collection. Date: circa 1900

Flowers - Close- up poppies - close-up of Poppy Blooms. Part of Box 6 Boswell Collection. Date: circa 1900

Flowers - Asters - Aster blooms (close-up ). Part of Box 6 Boswell Collection. Date: circa 1900

Principality of Monaco (Monte Carlo) - Botanical Gardens
Principality of Monaco (Monte Carlo) - Exotic Botanical Gardens at the Tete du Chien (head of the dog), the hill which looms over Monaco. Date: 1923

Shinobazu Ponds, Ueno Park, Taito, Tokyo, Japan
Shinobazu Pond is a pond within Ueno Park, and a historically prominent Shitamachi feature often appearing in history and works of art - Taito, Tokyo, Japan - lotus flowers in bloom. Date: circa 1910s

Chrysanthemum blooms - Karurusu Garden, Nagasaki, Japan Date: circa 1908

Japan - A famous wisteria in bloom
Hand coloured slide showing people gathered on a bridge over water and wisteria blooms in the foreground and side. Part of Box 157 Japan Boswell Collection

Rene Fraser gathering flowers

Home Gardening magazine, August 1932
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring a herbaceous border in a garden with an impressive display of gladioli (gladiolus) flowers. Date: 1932

Home Gardening magazine, January 1932
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring pictorial instructions for taking chrysanthemum cuttings. Date: 1932

Repeating Pattern - Poppies - Yellow background

Repeating Pattern - Poppies - Blue background

Repeating Pattern - Poppies - Green background

Repeating Pattern - Poppies - Grey background

Repeating Pattern - Poppies - Black background

South African Beauty - portrait with bouquet of flowers Date: circa 1903

Japan - The Flower Festival Date: circa 1910s

Cut flowers in Dutch Auction Hall Bloemenlust at Aalsmeer, The Netherlands. Date: circa 1930s

Japan - Flower Arranging and Japanese Dancing - decorative surround. Date: circa 1910s

Iris Garden, Kabata, Tokyo, Japan Date: circa 1905

South Africa - Cape Town - View of Devils Peak from Groot Schuur. Date: circa 1903

London Flower seller with her basket of blooms
A London Flower seller with her basket of blooms. Date: 1897

Two Cockney street Flowergirls
Two Cockney Flowergirls, not in their first bloom of youth - entitled (somewhat wickedly) " Sweet Violets" ! - caricature by Phil May. Date: 1897

Flower Girls at Piccadilly Circus, London
Flower Girls on the steps of the Eros Statue at Piccadilly Circus, London Date: 1903

Giant Cactus (Sahuaro) in bloom - Arizona, USA Date: circa 1930s

Species of Yucca plant in Bloom (Soap Weed) - Arizona, USA Date: circa 1930s

French girls adjusts a vase of blooms
French girl wearing a skimpy pink negligee adjusts a vase of blooms. Date: circa 1920s

Young Russian Girl holding up a bunch of flowers
I m going to give you a bunch of flowers and then make a swift departure! (very loose translation!) Young Russian Girl holding up a bunch of flowers. Date: 1908

The Iris Flower Garden, Horikiri, Tokyo, Japan Date: circa 1910s

Woman protecting herself against the wind beneath wisteria blooms. Print shows a woman huddled against the wind beneath wisteria blossoms. Date 1780, printed later

The flower farmers of Britain 1938
Picking the blooms at Rosenvale, Penzance, where the early spring flowers are grown extensively in greenhouses. Most of the Scilly Isles are employed in the flower industry

Two ladies in a flower car, one of whom is throwing blooms to people as they pass. There seems to be one thing lacking from this picture however - where is the driver?? Date: circa 1900s

Fish & Chip shop, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Behind the counter view of Blooms Fish & Chip shop at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. circa 1966

Nice, France - Flower Market Date: 1914

Flower Sellers - Rome - Piazza di Spagna

Later Summer Blooms
A flower arrangement of late summer blooms, in pink and white, in a pale green bowl, on a highly polished table. Date: 1950s

Paris, France - Flower Seller in Place de la Madeleine Date: 1928

Hydrangea Blooms
Hydrangea flower blooms. Date: 1930s

Villa Carlotta on the banks of Lake Como, Italy Date: circa 1910s

Flower Market - Switzerland
Official postcard from the Swiss National Exhibition, held in Bern in 1914 - A Flower Market - a quite exquisite postcard

Indian Gardener working on the doorstep to a lavish residence arranging a variety of floral blooms in a variety of pots

Flower Sellers - Cape Town, South Africa
Flower Sellers - Adderley Street, Cape Town, South Africa

Britannia and Eve, November 1956
Elegant front cover illustration featuring a a woman in a sack coat and pillbox hat clutching two blooms to her chest

Girls at a Flower show - Hong Kong
Girls (possibly Japanese?) at a Flower Show in Hong Kong, China Date: 1909

A Rose Show at the Horticultural Societys Gardens
Smartly dressed ladies and gentlemen stroll around a marquee at a rose show held in the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Societys gardens in South Kensington, London

Decorative letter E
A large letter E with a pretty lady in a long pink floral gown resting against it

Sweet Pea flowers
Sweet Pea Flowers (Lathyrus odoratus). Poster design by Malcolm Greensmith

A Vase of Flowers
An airbrush painting by Malcolm Greensmith in a very 1980s style, depicting a vase of flowers

Dreamlike painting of a flowergirl and whicker chair
A young girl festooned with flowers holding a bouquet, stands alongside a whickerwork chair. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

The Sensitive Plant / Robinson
Illustration by Charles Robinson showing a sumptuous garden overflowing with gorgeous flowering blooms and plants amidst which a romantically clad lady stands

1950S Flower Picker
Young woman in denim trousers & hot pink, sleeveless sun top carries a shallow flower basket full to the brim with freshly picked blooms

Girl Among Flowers 1922
A young girl among a mass of flowers growing in a garden

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