The Daisy Flower Fairy
The Daisy Flower Fairy
What child in the UK has not picked daisies in order to make a daisy chain? I can remember making daisy chains as a child, my sons made them and my grandson made them. In fact he still does!
A plentiful flower, flowering from early spring right through the summer. Found in pastures and lawns in the UK. The fact that it is so prolific means that we can make daisy chains until our heart is content.
Cicely Mary Barker is the illustrator.
Cicely Mary Barker was equally proficient in watercolour, pen and ink, oils, and pastels. Kate Greenaway and the Pre-Raphaelites were the main influences on her work and she claimed to paint instinctively and rejected artistic theories. Barker died in 1973. Though she published Flower Fairy books with spring, summer, and autumn themes, it wasn’t until 1985 that a winter collection was assembled from her remaining work and published posthumously.
Many original Flower Fairy prints can be found on Ebay.
Flower Fairy – Hazel Catkin
This is another member of the willow family, along with the pussy willow, which heralds the beginning of spring in the UK. It can be in flower as early as late February.
The catkins really do look like lambs’ tails. Cicely Mary Barker really has captured them so well in her illustration. She has even included the female flower which is that little reddish tuft at the top of the branch. This is the part, which when pollenated, will grow to form the hazelnut which will be fully formed by autumn and ready to be stached away by squirrels or eaten by humans.
Cicely Mary Barker is the illustrator.
This print along with other original Flower Fairy prints can be found on Ebay.
Flower Fairy – Pussy Willow
Pussy Willow is one of my favorite things to see in the spring along with the hazel catkins. Their appearance signifies the coming of warmer weather and they are lovely to look at.
To begin with the pussy willow is just soft and furry but after a few days the stamens appear so it takes on a yellow appearance.
The pussy willow flower fairy vintage print is of a little boy so this particular print would be suitable for a baby boy’s nursery as well as a baby girl’s.
Cicely Mary Barker is the illustrator.
This print along with other original Flower Fairy prints can be found on Ebay.
Flower Fairy – Wood Sorrel
This is a delightful Flower Fairy – Wood Sorrel – Original Vintage Print from the 1920’s to the 1940’s.
I remember the Flower Fairy range of books from when I was a child and then again when my four sons were small. There are some little boy flower fairies! The flower fairies seem to please both young and old alike.
Cicely Mary Barker was the illustrator
Cicely Mary Barker was equally proficient in watercolour, pen and ink, oils, and pastels. Kate Greenaway and the Pre-Raphaelites were the main influences on her work. She claimed to paint instinctively and rejected artistic theories. Barker died in 1973. Though she published Flower Fairy books with spring, summer, and autumn themes, it wasn’t until 1985 that a winter collection was assembled from her remaining work and published posthumously.