A BEFORE E EXCEPT FOR AQUILEGIA….

As some of you may have seen from Immy’s blog, we have officially embarked on our next plant! Hurray! We were excited to start working on freeze rime root because It’s so pretty! I mean look at it. LOOK AT IT!!! It’s very easy to identify the inspiration, it’s the gorgeous Colorado blue columbine It’s

SO LONG, MEDICINAL VALLEY’S BLUSH

Happy Sunday, everyone! On today’s blog, Immy and I are debriefing on how our first atetmpt on this project went, and letting you know a little bit about our next steps. On this audio chat: why oh why I am so keen on accession numbers, Immy’s decisions on adding colours, and me complaining about lack

IN WHICH I FOCUS TOO MUCH ON MEASUREMENTS…

The jump from botanical description to field notes was possibly the hardest part for me. The Nora tribe, described in Immy’s blog, are a pre-industrial group with hunter-gatherer traits. What I wanted to focus on was their connection to the natural world and their in-depth expertise on their surroundings. Their survival depended on it, and

IT ALL STARTS WITH A SCREENGRAB

So how does one go about creating botanical field notes for a fictional plant, found in a fictional environment, set sometime in the future? The first thing, which is true for all plant encounters, is to look at it… look at it reeeaaallll well… Let’s start with what is referred to in-game as “Medicinal Valley