Born in the Spring

A Collection of Spring Wildflowers

by June Carver Roberts

Imprint: Ohio University Press

159 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in, Drawings and paintings of 93 species

Paperback
9780821402269
Published: March 2024

$24.95

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eBook
9780821448021
Published: March 2024

$24.99

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A must for flower and art lovers, Born in the Spring is a unique collection of line drawings and magnificent watercolors of spring wildflowers. All of the drawings and paintings were done from living plants, in minute detail, with complete botanical accuracy. There are over 90 illustrations, 46 of which are in full color. The text accompanying each plate enables the reader to easily locate the flower in its natural setting. The text also includes the origins of the common and botanical names, and bits of history and lore connected with the flowers. Some are hardy aliens that have come from all over the world, while others are fragile natives described by the earliest settlers; some are now becoming rare.

June Carver Roberts grew up in New England, where she spent all her spare time exploring, drawing, and painting the outdoors. She received a B.F.A. from Ohio University. She won many awards, including the John Marin Award, and some of her watercolors are in the permanent collections of the Butler Art Institute, the Akron Art Institute, and the Huntington Galleries.

Roberts combines outstanding artistic talent, a love of wildflowers, and an engaging writing style to produce a uniquely charming volume on spring wildflowers. It attracts the eye, and it provides an engrossing series of vignettes of ninety-one species, guaranteed to lift the spirits when the snow is deepest and the thermometer lowest. — Choice

June Carver Roberts’s book will instill a love for wildflowers and other natural phenomena in even the most stubborn minds. . . . Born in the Spring should be quite helpful in preventing today’s common wildflowers from being among tomorrow’s endangered species. — Northwest Ohio Quarterly

June Carver Roberts has a special talent for capturing with accuracy and beauty the salient characteristics of plants. . . . Each plate is in a full-page format, opposite of which is descriptive text with detailed, well-written identification features, notes on the plants’ natural histories and origins, and their blooming periods. — Foster's Botanical and Herb Reviews