Folklore has it that the fairies teach the foxes to ring the foxglove bells to warn of danger. This is my watercolour painting ‘Fox in the Willowherbs’. Limited edition prints available. annadowdart.com

Honeysuckle 1874 #WilliamMorris

Saint-Jean-de-Monts, 1917 ~ Henri Lebasque

Geranium and Crocus c1900 #GeorgesRiom #ArtNouveau

Front Garden with Blossoming Hollyhocks ~ Marie Egner

Kathleen Newton at the Piano ~ James Tissot

Peony, geranium and lilac ~ Odilon Redon

"Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am in order to be blessed." - Mary Oliver - Mediterranean Landscape with a brook Peder Mørk Mønsted , 1887

Larkspur, 1888 ~ Henri Fantin-Latour

Le Beau Jardin ~ Jeanne Lauvernay-Petitjean

Poppies in a vase ~ Marie Wandscheer

Les jardins de la rue Cortot, 1922 ~ Suzanne Valadon

Happy 1st day of June, the month of the rose. My watercolour painting ‘Disintegration’, represents a rose as it fades from glory and disintegrates reminding us there is beauty in decay, something I try to remind myself when I look in the mirror each morning! 😉☺️

They don’t have a lot of flowers but this is pretty ♥️

Honeymoon ~ Joseph Christian Leyendecker

Still Life with Poppy ~ Henriette Wyeth

Celia Thaxter’s Garden, Isles of Shoals, Maine, 1890 ~ Childe Hassam

Roses ~ Colin Campbell Cooper

Ruthven Water #Perthshire

Arranging Flowers ~ William Henry Margetson