Finalist for 2019 B&LLA Licensing Awards and Winner of the Cultural Enterprise Award 2020. Virgin of the Rocks is one of Da Vinci's greatest works and it dates back to 1483. Both the style and the choice of oils are typical of Renaissance works of art. It's these elements that inspired this superb addition to our National Gallery collection. Included in the bouquet are superb Vanda Orchids, magnificent Memory Lane Roses, Calla Lillies, Eryngium, Ruscus, Pistacia enhanced with gold wire. The use of this variety of orchid is used to represent the rocky setting highlighted in the painting, the callas are used to signify the unusual use of lighting and flora. The various colours and textures perfectly represent key elements of this painting, namely the angles, hazed sky with pastel shades and golden orbits to represent the finer details shown in the beautiful face of the Virgin. This masterpiece is housed at the National Gallery in London. Send these luxury flowers inspired by a famous work of art and you can be sure that they will impress any lucky recipient. This bouquet is available for UK next day delivery. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 - 1519 The Virgin with the Infant Saint John the Baptist adoring the Christ Child accompanied by an Angel ("The Virgin of the Rocks") about 1491/2-9 and 1506-8 Oil on poplar, thinned and cradled 189.5 x 120 cm Bought, 1880 © The National Gallery, London
'Purple Gem' is a gorgeous variety of Dahlia that is perfect for adding unique flowers and stunning colours to your summer garden. These fabulous semi-cactus dahlias are guaranteed to add drama to your summer floral displays. Producing eye-catching flowers made up of multiple petals creating a round spikey head in a beautiful rich shade of purple. A cottage garden favourite, 'Purple Gem' will come into bloom in June and keep flowering through to autumn, providing you with four months of gorgeous colour. So easy to grow, as they are supplied as tubers, packed full of energy to burst into growth in Spring and produce a mass of bright colours which will pepper your garden like gemstones as Summer turns to Autumn. Dahlias are perfect for planting in your bed, borders, patio pots and containers. They also make fabulous cut flowers so pick a bunch of these pastel beauties to bring into your home for amazing colour. Dahlias will need some winter protection if you want them to return next year, we recommend that you dig them up before the first frost arrives and keep them stored over the winter. Supplied as a pack of 3 tubers, ready to plant out.
Add perfume and colour to your garden with this rare, yellow-flowered, deciduous daphne. Slow but steady growing, this is a bushy shrub with lush green foliage that is covered with pretty clusters of yellow flowers from late spring to summer. Bees and other insects love visiting the flowers which are followed in late summer by attractive red berries.
This prolific flowering Dianthus will produce a mix of red, pink, purple and white blooms set against luscious green foliage. Its compact and dwarf growing habit makes it ideal for your beds and borders, this Dianthus also prefers a sunny spot in your garden where it can thrive.
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