Marjorie Blamey obituary

Botanical illustrator who opened people’s eyes to the beauty of wild flowersMarjorie Blamey, who has died aged 101, was Britain’s most prolific illustrator of wild flowers. She contributed all the colour illustrations, amounting to many thousands of paintings, for a succession of distinguished field guides, beginning with Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe in 1974.It was followed by Alpine Flowers (1979), Mediterranean Wild Flowers (1993) and Wild Flowers of Britain and Irel