Flowers From the Garden, four stamps that honour the beauty of floral arrangements, were dedicated on Aug. 16, 2017.
The Postal Service has a long tradition of showcasing flowers and floral artwork on stamps. Flowers have been a perennial favourite, with hundreds of floral stamps released over the years, said Employee Resource Management VP Simon Storey, who dedicated the stamps in Sioux Falls, SD.
Storey said that each of these stamps is a small masterpiece, or as we say in the Postal Service, miniature works of art.
The ceremony was held at Mary Jo Wegner Arboretum. Other speakers included South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard, Sioux Falls City Council Member Michelle Erpenbach, plant scientist Sarah Stowers, and stamp artist Elizabeth Brandon.
The stamp sheet features four images inspired by 17th and 18th-century still-life paintings of garden flowers: red camellias and yellow forsythia in a pitcher; white peonies and pink tree peonies in a vase; white hydrangeas, white and pink roses, green hypericum berries and purple lisianthus in a vase; and blue hydrangeas in a pot.
