Creeping Cinquefoil, Potentilla reptans

Angela Brazil, was an influential
author of school stories aimed at older girls. She moved to Coventry in 1911,
where she became interested in preserving natural environments. She was a
member of Coventry’s natural history society and kept a nature diary in which
she recorded information about the weather, plants and wildlife, alongside
selected poetic verses. This watercolour shows Creeping Cinquefoil, Potentilla reptans, a wildflower seen in ‘the
borders of each rural way’. Brazil’s work highlights a softer and more rural
aspect of Coventry, in which nature embellishes the urban environment.