The Illustrated Plant Nut

I'm nuts about plants and all the animals and minerals that reside with them.

Thursday, October 22, 2026

Fruit Display in Hilgard Hall at UC Berkeley 1920s

Daily News Leader (San Mateo), Volume IX, Number 242, 18 October 1922 Gathering some Fruit displays in Hilgard Hall...

Saturday, August 2, 2025

Mouth Watering Watercolors of Fruits

USDA collection Hachia Roeding The USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection has loads of beautiful watercolor fruits ( Wikipedia with links t...

Thursday, July 31, 2025

The "Old Adobe" Trademark of the California Nursery Company

The "Old Adobe" oranges were sold at the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939-1940. The "Old Adobe" trademark...

Friday, January 24, 2025

Montgomery Redwoods 2023 and 1894

We took a trip up to Montgomery Redwoods for CGLHS convention field trip One of Grace Hudson’s drawings with several preliminary sketches wa...

Sunday, June 9, 2024

Wikimedia This photo appeared on JSTOR "Who Took the Cocaine out of Coca-Cola?" I can't take my eyes off that yellow rose ...

Sunday, December 17, 2023

The preservation of the Armstrong Redwoods in Guerneville

Annals of Horticulture in North America for the Years 1889-1893 News in the nation in 1892 Big news in L.H. Bailey's Annals of Horticul...

The Gnome-Mobile and Armstrong Redwoods and the Shinns

[No official pics to avoid Disney problems :O) ] SOMEWHERE...while searching for the Shinn family's connection with the Armstrong Redw...

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