The wonders of Charlotte Cowan Pearson's exquisite botanical artwork from the Royal Botanic
Garden Edinburgh. A fine new art calendar from Flame Tree. With over 70 acres of picturesque
landscape Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a must for all visitors. This delightful wall
calendar celebrates the beautifully delicate yet accurate botanical watercolours of British
plants by Charlotte Cowan Pearson an outstandingly talented amateur artist born in 1837
examples of whose paintings are held in an album in the RBGE's Library. Informative text
accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next month’s views. Printed on
FSC-certified paper with plastic-free packaging. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a
world-leading botanic garden and is home to a diverse and spectacular Living Collection of
plants. It was established in 1670 when Andrew Balfour and Robert Sibbald created a physic
garden near Holyrood to grow and study medicinal plants. Over 350 years later the garden is a
world-renowned plant science and research institution with connections across the globe
committed to explore explain and conserve plants for a better future. Charlotte Cowan
Pearson was born in Edinburgh on the 24th July 1837 five weeks after Queen Victoria ascended
the British throne she died in the same city on the 6th March 1917 and is buried in the city’s
Dean Cemetery. Very little is known of Charlotte’s life but it is known that she was admitted
as a lady member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh (now Botanical Society of Scotland) in
1894 and that she was an enthusiastic botanical artist. An album of Charlotte’s beautiful
botanical paintings of British plants made in a variety of Scottish and Yorkshire locations
is held in the Library of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and pays witness to her talents as
an artist.
