On Cornflower today I'm giving away some Elizabeth Blackadder postcards, while over here I've got two sets of two Blackadder bookmarks to go to anyone who'd like them. One side of each is pictured above, the other side below, and as they are laminated they should be fairly robust.
I can send them anywhere in the world, so if you want to enter the draw for them, just leave a comment on this post naming a book with a flower in the title - anything at all will do! I'll pick a winner in a day or two, and you're welcome to enter for the postcards on the other site, too.
Oh, how pretty! Please put my name in the hat: The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald (fabulous book)...
Posted by: Susan E | 18 July 2011 at 06:03 PM
Cannot resist entering this draw!
Jane Kenyon: A Hundred White Daffodils.
Posted by: catharina | 18 July 2011 at 06:17 PM
'The Black Tulip' by Alexandre Dumas - so good, it nearly made me like the overblown fragile things!
Posted by: Sandy | 18 July 2011 at 06:25 PM
The name of the rose by Umberto Eco
Posted by: Laura said.. | 18 July 2011 at 06:31 PM
The Begonia Bed by Elizabeth Kyle, is the title I decided to go with for this. They are lovely bookmarks.
Posted by: Geraldine | 18 July 2011 at 06:31 PM
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh.
Posted by: Lizziemac | 18 July 2011 at 06:53 PM
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy.
Posted by: Jan | 18 July 2011 at 07:14 PM
Doborah Moggach's Tulip Fever. The bookmarks are besutiful!
Posted by: Claudia | 18 July 2011 at 07:50 PM
The Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
Posted by: Barbara MacLeod | 18 July 2011 at 08:00 PM
These are lovely; please add me to the draw
Alma Rose (Edith Forbes), Snow Flower...& Peony in Love (Lisa See)
Posted by: Linda C. | 18 July 2011 at 08:47 PM
Beautiful bookmarks! The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy.
Posted by: Caro | 18 July 2011 at 08:49 PM
How timely, as I have just been reading a book I recently bought, Treasures of Botanical Art: Icons from the Shirley Sherwood and Kew Collections, which includes some Elizabeth Blackadder paintings. But if you want a specific flower rather than a whole lot of them, how about John Mortimer's Rumpole and the Primrose Path?
Posted by: Karin | 18 July 2011 at 09:17 PM
Ortho books "Complete Guide to Roses". It's not very romantic or esoteric but completely practical! My roses were quite beautiful this summer! Thank you for the chance to enter your giveaway! Happy gardening!
Posted by: Kate/Massachusetts | 18 July 2011 at 09:23 PM
Please may I enter the drawing? My title:
The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies - Cicely Mary Barker
Liz in Texas
Posted by: Liz Paulk | 18 July 2011 at 09:26 PM
Gosh, these are as lovely as the Persephone bookmarks.
My offering... CONSIDER THE LILIES by Iain Crichton Smith
Posted by: Linda Gillard | 18 July 2011 at 09:49 PM
Il maestro e Margherita.
Sorry, I don't know the title in English; I read the Italian translation of the Russian book.
Posted by: Francesca | 18 July 2011 at 10:04 PM
Karol/NYC,
While not including the name of a specific flower, how about "The Street of a Thousand Blossoms" by Gail Tsukiyama (a very special book, by the way). These are truly fantastic bookmarks!!
Posted by: [email protected] | 18 July 2011 at 10:14 PM
How about Daisy Miller by Henry James?
Posted by: Lesley Allen | 18 July 2011 at 10:49 PM
What beautiful bookmarks- we can never have enough. Amazing how many 'flowers' are in book titles once you give it some thought...'Snowdrops' - A.D. Miller, my most recent addition.
Posted by: Vivienne | 18 July 2011 at 11:57 PM
It took me a while, but I finally thought of 'The Rose Garden', which is Susanna Kearsley's latest (I have a hold on it at my library). Beautiful bookmarks!
Posted by: Caroline | 19 July 2011 at 12:29 AM
I should not read the previous comments on occasions such as this! :-) My mind goes blank and I can't think of any other titles. I want to come up with a title that hasn't been mentioned - so, I've had to tap my husband's brain - he came up with The Black Dahlia.
Posted by: Nancy | 19 July 2011 at 02:05 AM
Then, of course, I see that The Black Dahlia was mentioned. :-(
Posted by: Nancy | 19 July 2011 at 02:07 AM
How could I forget! Steel Magnolias. :-) Now, I feel better.
Posted by: Nancy | 19 July 2011 at 02:12 AM
I always use postcards as bookmarks, so please don't consider this an entry, but I couldn't resist adding
Amaryllis Night and Day
Posted by: oxslip | 19 July 2011 at 06:51 AM
Lovely bookmarks! Pls enter me for the draw if you don't mind.
Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott.
THanks!
Posted by: michelle | 19 July 2011 at 07:17 AM
Las flores del mal, de Baudaleire.
Posted by: Maria | 19 July 2011 at 07:21 AM
How lovely! Please put my name into the draw.I also recommend Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley.
Posted by: margaret46 | 19 July 2011 at 08:35 AM
Since I can't resist bookmarks, I will have to enter the draw with The Rose Revived by Katie Fforde but as I suspect you will get huge numbers of entries - please can you tell me where I would be able to purchase some of them?
Posted by: LizF | 19 July 2011 at 09:00 AM
I got them at the Blackadder exhibition shop (as opposed to the general shop) at the National Gallery of Scotland. I've checked the gallery's online shop - http://www.nationalgalleries.org/shop/online/8:398/ but they are not listed there, however, they might still be able to send them to you - should you not win these!
Posted by: Cornflower | 19 July 2011 at 09:13 AM
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Hi Cornflower
Thanks for that. Hopefully the exhibition
will still be on when we pass through Edinburgh on our way to have a look at St
Andrews Uni (one of the places my daughter is looking at) later in the summer,
although at the moment I think that she would rather have a city based
university rather than ‘another boring small town’ as she puts it!
LizF
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Posted by: LizF | 19 July 2011 at 09:23 AM
Beautiful bookmarks! Please enter me in the draw!
Magnolia Ridge by Donna Ruggles.
Posted by: Pia | 19 July 2011 at 09:36 AM
Crumbs, I couldn't think of any. So, I've not read the other comments yet but how about a cheating Daphne Laureola, a play (by Bridie, I think).
Posted by: B R Wombat | 19 July 2011 at 09:52 AM
The Rose Of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon, a lovely book.
please add me into the draw
Posted by: sarah broadhurst | 19 July 2011 at 10:14 AM
How pretty Blackadder bookmarks are; will really brighten up a rather cloudy summer. Haven't sat out in the garden to read as often as I would like.
My flowery book title is "The Yellow on the Broom" by Betsy Whyte, an autobiographical story of herself as part of the community of Scottish travelling people.
Posted by: Susan Campbell | 19 July 2011 at 10:19 AM
The Rose Rent by Ellis Peters. Such a romantic title:)
Posted by: sakura | 19 July 2011 at 10:37 AM
What lovely bookmarks!
Gentian Hill by Elizabeth Goudge
Posted by: craftygreenpoet | 19 July 2011 at 01:08 PM
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Posted by: Bluegenes | 19 July 2011 at 01:39 PM
How about Albert Fish: The Werewolf of Wysteria?
Posted by: Rachel Edwards | 19 July 2011 at 01:44 PM
Margery Meets the Roses, by Elsie J. Oxenham.
Posted by: Rosie H | 19 July 2011 at 02:33 PM
The exhibition is on until early January, and the bookmarks are beside the till. (Your daughter may like to know that when Prince William was at St. Andrews he often came to Edinburgh for the night life! St. A is lovely, though).
Posted by: Cornflower | 19 July 2011 at 04:18 PM
I love bookmarks and these are lovely!
I say "The name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco ("Il nome della rosa" in Italian :-)
Posted by: Miriana | 19 July 2011 at 07:47 PM
Such fun reading all the comments. Mine would be Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott. I actually curled up under an ancient lilac bush ... my favorite place to read in the summer...and read this book.
Posted by: Michel | 19 July 2011 at 08:57 PM
"Where the Lilies Bloom" by Bill and Vera Cleaver. Classified as a teen book, but a wonderful book for all ages.
Posted by: Julie Fredericksen | 19 July 2011 at 10:43 PM
Those are just SO pretty. Please may I be put in the draw, too? I'll name The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean - surprisingly gripping non-fiction about flowers!
Posted by: litlove | 19 July 2011 at 10:47 PM
Here's my entry:
Please Don't Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr. Humorous essays about suburban living and raising four boys in America.
Posted by: Lucy | 19 July 2011 at 11:03 PM
The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly!
Posted by: Mystica | 20 July 2011 at 03:06 AM
'There's Rosemary...There's Rue...' Lady Fortescue
Posted by: Elizabeth | 20 July 2011 at 04:32 AM
The secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Wilig
Posted by: Anji | 20 July 2011 at 06:12 AM
What about Driving Miss Daisy? having just finished The Help this book came to mind again.
Posted by: Marybel | 20 July 2011 at 10:47 AM
What about Driving Miss Daisy? having just finished The Help this book came to mind again.
Posted by: Marybel | 20 July 2011 at 10:47 AM