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A is for Appleblossom.
From the 13th century mythology to the still well known phrase of “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”, apples have long had an association with healthy habits. The apple blossom symbolises preference, hope, and good fortune.
The Botanical Alphabet is inspired by old scientific botanical illustrations and categories of olden day Explorers and Naturists. Paired with modern outlined sans serif letters and bold colour blocks, it has a much more contemporary feel while still keeping a hint of the much loved illustration genre of the past.
The Botanical Alphabet series is also available as greeting cards, so you can send a very personal card for any occasion featuring your friend’s initial.
Forest green, mint, warm white, and soft black anchor this print’s palette, with fleeting blushes of pale pink and warm ivory in the blooms. The temperature is cool-leaning but softened by those creamy floral tones, which means the print sits comfortably against walls in the same cool-green family – a mid-tone sage or a deep bottle green creates an analogous, enveloping effect that pulls the forest-green letterform right out into the room. For contrast, a warm off-white or a pale warm grey on the walls lets the mint diagonal breathe and keeps the vintage botanical detail legible without competing. If you want something bolder, a deep charcoal with cool undertones echoes the inky black linework of the illustration and gives the white flowers a dramatic lift. Botanicals and bookshelves are natural companions, so a home library, study, or a kitchen with open shelving suits this print especially well; a hallway wall, where a single strong image can make a first impression, is another natural home for it. The print belongs to the Botanical Alphabet collection, a series that fuses vintage scientific illustration with bold, modern sans-serif typography set against vibrant colour blocks – each letter paired with a plant sharing its initial. It sits within a collection that feels, in the artist’s own words, both familiar and fresh, and grouping several letters together on a gallery wall produces something genuinely striking. It makes a considered gift for a plant lover, a teacher, or anyone who’d appreciate a personalised initial with real visual substance.
Printed on Enhanced Matte art paper using archival pigment inks, this is a smooth, gallery-grade stock with a soft, glare-free surface – the kind of finish that sits comfortably behind both a slim natural-wood frame and an ornate antique gilt one, without the reflections that can plague glossy prints. Museum-grade in its paper quality, it holds the fine crosshatched lines of the botanical illustrations cleanly at every size. The A4 (21 × 29.7 cm) and A3 (29.7 × 42 cm) sizes work well propped on a shelf or slotted into a gallery arrangement alongside other letters from the collection; the A2 (42 × 59.4 cm) carries enough presence to hold a wall on its own above a desk or beside a doorway; and the A1 (59.4 × 84.1 cm) is large enough to anchor a whole corner of a room, letting the botanical detail reward close attention. This print is also available as a ready-to-hang canvas in a 28 × 40 inch (70 × 100 cm) format, which needs no frame at all.
