Wild Flowers of Britain - Month by Month

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Roedd Margaret Erskine Wilson, a fu yn Llywydd Cymdeithas Hanes Byd Natur Kendal, yn fotanegydd ac yn artist dyfrlliw amatur, brwd. Yn 1999, rhoes 150 o'i phaentiadau dyfrlliw i'r Gymdeithas. Mae'r lluniau hyn yn cynrychioli miloedd o flodau gwyllt Prydain ac Iwerddon, a baentiwyd ganddi ar leoliad dros gyfnod maith o flynyddoedd mewn sawl lle.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Margaret Erskine Wilson, late President of Kendal Natural History Society, was a keen amateur botanist and watercolourist. In 1999, she donated to the Society 150 sheets of watercolour paintings representing a thousand British and Irish plants in flower and in fruit, painted in situ over many years and in various places.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Margaret Erskine Wilson viii Editor's Note ix January 1 February 2 March 3 April 6 May 15 June 35 July 72 August 112 September 139 October 144 November 146 December 147 Index of Common Names 149 Index of Scientific Names 157

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Margaret Erskine Wilson (b.1915), read modern languages at Girton College Cambridge, then studied Textile Design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, until the war broke out in 1939. A career teacher, she finally moved to teach in the Lake District. She painted flowers all her life and exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Botanical Art Show in London, winning silver medals on at least two occasions. She died in 2009 and donated many of her paintings of wild flowers to the Kendal Natural History Society of which she was a former President.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

At the time she donated the paintings to Kendal Natural History Society, she wrote: Begun in 1943/4 for a friend who said, ‘I might learn the names of flowers if you drew them for me, in the months they’re in flower’. The result is this beautiful, previously unpublished book of all her accurate and informative illustrations, painted over a period of 45 years. Over a thousand British and Irish flowers are represented in this book and it still today serves Margaret Erskine Wilson’s original purpose – it is an easy way to learn the names of our delicate and beautiful wild flowers.