Spring Gallery

Circular countryside scene

A watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith showing a typical English rural countryside setting of a half-timbered cottage set amid fields, surrounded by fauna in the shape of a passing Cuckoo, a Great Tit and a family of Rabbits, nestled amid the Bluebells

© Mary Evans/Malcolm Greensmith

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Primula Juliae (Juliana Primrose)

Primula Juliae (Juliana Primrose), a flowering plant of the Primulaceae family, named after the person who discovered it in April 1900 in the Caucasus Mountains of south west Russia, Julia Mlokossjewicz. It has a bright purple flower with a yellow centre. Seen here growing in a rocky setting. The Latin name primula refers to flowers that are among the first to open in spring

© Mary Evans/Reginald A. Malby & Co. Collection

It suffices. What suffices?

It suffices. What suffices? All suffices reckoned rightly: Spring shall bloom where now the ice is, Roses make the bramble sightly, And the quickening sun shine brightly, And the latter wind blow lightly, And my garden teem with spices. (Part of a poem by Christina Rossetti)
20th century

© Mary Evans Picture Library/Peter & Dawn Cope Collection

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