Thistle T-Shirts

This Celtic inspired design features a red rose and a thistle, with the stems intertwining together to form a heart, heavily inspired by the knotwork found on many pictish stones. Inside the heart is gaol, the Scottish Gaelic word for love

Close-up of Small Globe Thistle garden flower. Small globe thistle, Echinops ritro, is a perennial member of the Asteraceae family that includes sunflowers, daisies, globe artichokes, and asters. This compact species has cobweb-like, woolly foliage. The unique spherical flowerheads appear steely blue before maturing to a brighter blue. A lovely summer flower for the garden. Flowers lifestyles. Support my art by adding to your favourites and share a link. Thanks for visiting my gallery! Copyright Robert Alsop images.

Single Scottish thistle in a modern contemporary style.

violet eryngium thistles on orange striped chevron

Digital collage and elaboration from Art Deco bold floral motifs by Bulgan Lumini. Ravens; cicadas and thistles with large leaves.

Beautiful Echinops (globe thistle) seed head

Pastel and bright yellow & peachy orange tiny flowers; floral motif, suggestive of fine embroidered needlework. From photographs of Cow Parsnips and New Mexico Thistle. Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects

- nature photography

This is a watercolour of a bumblebee on a thistle. Very much a symbol of my country - Scotland.

Sweet Jack the wild Rabbit enjoys a cheeky nibble.

St Giles' Cathedral is the historic City Church of Edinburgh, Scotland. With its famed crown spire it stands near the top of the Royal Mile between Edinburgh Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Also known as the High Kirk of Edinburgh, it is the Mother Church of Presbyterianism and contains the Chapel of the Order of the Thistle (Scotland's chivalric company of knights headed by the Queen). St Giles' was founded in the 1120s when the Scottish royal family, the sons of Queen (Saint) Margaret and King Malcolm Canmore, especially David I (1124-1153) made strenuous efforts to spread Catholic Christian worship throughout the Scottish lowlands. Historical information supplied by the St. Giles official website Camera: Canon EOS 450D

Sweet bee on a thistle.

Thistles on a golden backgroubd

Created using an original hand drawn and digitally coloured illustration.

Designed for Highland Kings to incorporate thistle and crown in a modern adaption using simplistic shape and form.

White variation ink line art of Hawfinch art nouveau tattoo art design.

A Tortoiseshell Butterfly (Aglais urticae) resting on a flowerhead of Common Ragwort in the lovely warm September sunshine at QEII Country Park, Ashington, Northumberland.

Digital collage and elaboration from Art Deco bold floral motifs by Bulgan Lumini. Ravens; cicadas and thistles with large leaves.

butterfly on a thistle

Classic Partick Thistle subbuteo players

Bumble bee and Thistle is from my original watercolour painting

Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

How gorgeous is this patch of globe thistles photographed in England?!

Eryngium or sea holly flower heads photograph given an abstract effect using layers of texture in blue and purple

Close up autumn steppe nature, dry thorn thistle of Field scabious flowers shrub (Knautia arvensis) against sunset background with golden and purple colors. Tiny wildflowers still life vertical shot.

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." Ralph Waldo Emerson Madison, South Dakota USA carduus | Matthew Blum

Along with being creative and very imaginative, they are very kind and sympathetic. Aries natives are very punctual and keep everything well planned. They love being sorted when it comes to planning. With everything that makes them great, their faithfulness and honest is what makes their personality remarkable.

A cutout photo of the head of an orange safflower. The thistle like flower creates a bold floral statement, a great gift for fans of botanical images and flowers.

An image of artichoke in the style of line and dotwork.

In winter I find myself dreaming of my garden and the flowers to come in spring: the pink and cream roses, the purple iris, the thistle, delphinium, and columbine. These start out as photos of bouquets of flowers and are then digitally manipulated into the patterns you see here.

Cozy, vintage autumn flower pattern.

A bee collecting pollen from a thistle flower in close-up. Macro photography taken in Northamptonshire UK

Even when fall and winter come, these hand-made watercolor flowers will bring back to you the summer sun and the beautiful colors of spring.

A spiky garden beauty, the Eryngium thistle flower.

A frog in a straw hat is playing bluegrass music with his old trustful banjo. It is a t-shirt for both bluegrass fans and vintage art enthusiasts.

A Small Tortoiseshell butterfly resting on a thistle in August sunshine. This image was taken near Seaton Delaval in Northumberland on the edge of a wheat field. The image has been given Dream Cloud filter to soften the image and give it a more dreamy feeling.