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Bedgebury Florilegium

Bedgebury Florilegium

Harrison, Christina
Luscombe, Dan
Toomer, Simon

Hardcover

European Art

Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN10: 1842468413
ISBN13: 9781842468418
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Published: Mar 26 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.21 Depth: 8.57
Language: English
A celebration of the Bedgebury Florilegium exhibition at Kew for the centenary of Bedgebury National Pinetum.

Founded in 1925, Bedgebury National Pinetum was established through a pioneering partnership with the Forestry Commission and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In celebration of its centenary, this book features twenty stunning botanical paintings by the Bedgebury National Pinetum Florilegium Society, showcasing the beauty and scope of the trees in the collection.

Following the First World War, Kew conifer expert William Dallimore noticed that years of increasing industrial pollution in London were adversely impacting the growth of the trees and went in search of a better environment to house Kew's conifer collection. With varied topography and a mixture of soil types, Bedgebury proved to be ideal, and the first planting of trees grown at Kew took place there in 1925. Today, Bedgebury is home to nearly 12,000 tree specimens and is a center for conifer science and conservation.

At the heart of this book are the botanical paintings by the Bedgebury National Pinetum Florilegium Society. Founded in 2008, this group of botanical artists is dedicated to documenting the Pinetum's remarkable plant collection through scientifically accurate and artistically stunning illustrations.

Complete with a foreword by Simon Toomer, Kew's Curator of Living Collections, and an introduction by Bedgebury Collections Manager Dan Luscombe that provides an overview of the Pinetum today, Christina Harrison's text offers a charming history of Dallimore and Bedgebury.

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