In Bloom Postcard Pack

This postcard pack highlights a collection of eight postcards from the special exhibition In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World. Open at the Ashmolean Museum between 19 March - 16 August 2026.

Postcard designs included inside of each pack include:

• Simon Verelst (1644-1721), A Vase of Flowers, Oil on canvas, WA1940.2.87 © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
• Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770), Frangipane (Plumeria rubra), from Plantae Selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini, in hortis curiosorum nutrita, by Christoph Jacob Trew, Nuremberg, 1750-73, Hand coloured engraving, Sherardian Library, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, 2-41 TR 1. Photo: © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
• Kate Friend (b.1983), Duncan Grant, Hollyhock, Charleston, 2024, C-type colour print, Lyndsay Ingram, London, Courtesy of the artist and Lyndsey Ingram.
• John Ruskin (1819–1900), Study of Wild Rose, Watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on wove paper, WA.RS.RUD.238 © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
• Fiona Strickland (b.1956), Tulipa 'Blumex Parrot', 2019, Watercolour on Kelmscott vellum, Shirley Sherwood Collection © Fiona Strickland, Courtesy The Shirley Sherwood Collection.
• Philip Reinagle (1749–1833) and James Caldwall (1739–1822), Blue passion flower (Passiflora caerulea), from New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carl Linnaeus and the Temple of Flora, by Robert J. Thornton, 1798–1810. Bound volume with coloured engravings, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, CR.L.50, p.247. Photo: ©Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. 
• Ferdinand Bauer (1760–1826), Hairy poppy (Papaverum pilosum), from a set of 
  preparatory drawings for John Sibthorp’s Flora Graeca, Bound volume with watercolours on paper, Sherardian Library, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Sherard 241, fol. 25. Photo: ©Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
• Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912), Girl Smelling Orchids, 1879, Oil on panel, Private Collection, USA, Photograph courtesy of the Richard Green Gallery, London.

Exclusive to the Ashmolean Museum.