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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~Cicero
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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.
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.
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
Daisy and Calendula mix
Dahlias
Gazanias
Hibiscus and Lavatera Mix
Phlox
Delphiniums
Stock
Zinnias
Yellow Poppy Mix
Violas
Loasa mix, Blazing Star
Morning Glories
Nasturtium
Prickly Poppies
Sweet William and Corncockle
Creamcups and Ranunculus
Pincushion Flower
Lobelia
Bluebells
Love-in-a-Mist
Gentiana
Nemophilia
Pinks and Carnations
Sweet Pea Mix
Flax
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.
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.
Tile: Ceramic
Background Color: Warm White or Cream
12 tile backsplash without border tiles: $1780
6 tile backsplash without border tiles: $880
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.
Tile: Ceramic
Background Color: Warm White or Cream
Anemones, Dahlias, Delphinium, Gazanias, Hibisus and Lavatera, Phlox, Stock
6 inch-square tiles: $60 each
8 inch-square tiles: $82 each
.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
.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
.6 inch: 7 tiles
8 inch: 5 tiles
