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Victorian Botanical Tiles

Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Annuals

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~Cicero

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Victorian Botanicals

From the late eighteenth through the nineteenth century, the study of Botany became an increasingly popular and fashionable activity for the middle classes, whose fascination with Science, increasing ennui born of the encroachment of industrialization and loss of nature, and belief in the divine and the natural order of things came together on a sunny afternoon in the garden. Jane Webb Loudon, on whose Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Annuals I've based these tiles, is credited with popularizing the pastime of gardening to the middle classes, first in a series of popular gardening manuals, and later as a self-taught botanical artist of some acclaim.

Jane Webb Loudon

Although best known for her Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Annual (and Perennials and Exotic Plants), Jane Webb Loudon wrote the first novel on mummies (The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century) before she was 20 when, her father having died suddenly, she found herself penniless and orphaned. Jane published the first popular gardening manuals, and so introduced the pastime of gardening to the middle classes. She taught herself to draw and became an acclaimed botanical artist.

The Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Annuals was published in 1840, three years after Victoria became Queen.

Individual Accent Tiles

Jane arranged the elements in her botanicals in a distinctive style: grouping flowers to form bouquets.

The flower tiles are available in 6- and 8- inch tiles with a warm white or cream background.

Anemones

Anemones

Daisy and Calendula Mix

Daisy and Calendula mix

Dahlias

Dahlias

gazanias

Gazanias

Hibiscus and Lavatera mix

Hibiscus and Lavatera Mix

Phlox

Phlox

Delphinium

Delphiniums

Stock

Stock

Zinnias

Zinnias

Yellow Poppy Mix

Yellow Poppy Mix

Violas

Violas

Loasa mix, Blazing Star

Loasa mix, Blazing Star

Morning Glories

Morning Glories

Nasturtium

Nasturtium

Prickly Poppies

Prickly Poppies

Sweet William and Corncockle

Sweet William and Corncockle

Creamcups and Ranunculus

Creamcups and Ranunculus

Pincushion Flower

Pincushion Flower

Lobelia

Lobelia

Bluebells

Bluebells

Love in a Mist

Love-in-a-Mist

Gentiana

Gentiana

Nemophilia

Nemophilia

Pinks and Carnations

Pinks and Carnations

Sweet Pea Mix

Sweet Pea Mix

Flax

Flax

Backsplashes

I have the Primrose and Bellflowers backsplash in two formats: Six-inch tiles for 18 inches x 12 inchs. With 3-inch border tiles, you are at 24 x 18. Although I am happy to make the solid border tiles for you, three-inch and 4.25-inch tiles are readily available in an amazing array of color options.

Twelve-Tile Backsplash (17 x 12.75 without border tiles)

The 12-tile backsplash is on 4.25 inch tiles, 17 inches wide by 12.75 inches tall, not including grout space. Bordered with 18 4.25 inch tiles, the size is 25.5 inches x 20.75, without grout space.

Twelve-tile Victorian botanical backsplash, Primroses and Bellflowers

Six-Tile Backsplash (24 x 18 with border tiles)

Prinrose and Bellflowers backsplash

Backsplash Options and Pricing

Specifications

Tile: Ceramic

Background Color: Warm White or Cream

Primrose and Bellflower Backsplash Pricing

12 tile backsplash without border tiles: $1780

6 tile backsplash without border tiles: $880

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Single Tile Options and Pricing

I've grouped the individual accent tiles from Ornamental Annuals by their complexity and named these groups, rather arbitrarily, after famous gardens I have been enchanted by.

Specifications

Tile: Ceramic

Background Color: Warm White or Cream

Lotusland Group Pricing

Anemones, Dahlias, Delphinium, Gazanias, Hibisus and Lavatera, Phlox, Stock

6 inch-square tiles: $60 each

8 inch-square tiles: $82 each

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Butchart Gardens Group Pricing

Daisy and Calendula Mix, Yellow Poppy Mix, Violas, Gentiana, Loasa mix, Morning Glories, Prickly Poppies, Zinnias

6 inch-square tiles: $63 each

8 inch-square tiles: $84 each

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Monet's Garden Group Pricing

Bluebells, Sweet William and Corncockle, Creamcups and Ranunculus, Nasturtium, Pincushion_Flower, Flax, Lobelia, Love-in-a-Mist, Nemophilia, Pinks and Carnations, Sweet Pea Mix

6 inch-square tiles: $65 each

8 inch-square tiles: $88 each

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Minimum Order for Single Tiles

6 inch: 7 tiles

8 inch: 5 tiles