Did you know that RHS Gold Medal winning artists often have a very strong botanical theme to their artwork?
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Painting flowers nicely isn't enough. There's a clear and strong botanical science theme running through the stories of many of the new Gold Medal Winners. Dissection and the portrayal of the complete plant and life cycle should be high on the agenda of any aspiring Gold Medal winner
— Interviews with RHS Botanical Art Gold Medal Winners

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Strict botanical illustration standards requires a knowledge of botany and plants.
​Would you like to know more about botany which is helpful to botanical artists?
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Botany
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1. ​Why botany matters to artists
2. The Best Botany Books for Botanical Artists
3. Scientific instruction in botanical illustration
4. Plant morphology - advice about how to draw the shapes and parts of plants correctly
5. Plant evolution and taxonomy - understanding the different types of plants and the the correct terms for naming the different parts of plants
6. Plant Names and Botanical Latin for Artists 
7. ​Botanical Dictionaries and Glossaries​
8. ​Plants and Plant Life - how to identify a plant
9. Recording a Plant
10. ​Blogs about Plants and Flowers​

Botanic Gardens
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PLUS GARDENS: Learn about Botanic Gardens, Herbariums, Seed Banks and Fungaria

• Global, Continental and Regional Botanical Networks
• Herbariums around the World
• Botanical Gardens and Horticultural Societies in the UK
• Botanical Gardens in Ireland
• Botanical Gardens in Europe​
• ​Botanical Gardens in the USA
• Botanical Gardens in Canada
• Botanical Gardens in South America (coming soon)
• Botanical Gardens in Asia
• Botanical Gardens in Australia 

Ginkgo biloba By Philipp Franz von Siebold and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (Flora Japonica, Sectio Prima (Tafelband).) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Banner Image: Dissections for Cidrus libani (Cedar of Lebanon) by GD Ehret from Plantae Selectae volume 6