Colour botanical tattoo of a green fern frond and a pink stem with a faded dried flower on the inner forearm, above a red string bracelet.

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Fern and dried flower on a forearm

Botanical · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A forearm tattoo shows a green fern frond with detailed leaflets, a pink-magenta stem running diagonally across it, and a faded brown dried flower head near the elbow. The linework is fine and the green is shaded to suggest depth, while the pink and brown areas are more muted. The arm is shown against a white painted brick wall, with the hand relaxed at the wrist and a thin red string bracelet.

Botanical Forearm Fern Leaf Flower Stem Plant

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Nan, it's gone four and the ward has finally gone quiet enough to write. Mr Haddow in bay three has been asking for his wife's garden all night, the one she kept behind the chip shop on Mill Road before the council took it. I told him I'd find something green to hold, so I went down the back stairs to the car park where the ferns grow out of the wall by the bins, the ones nobody sprays.

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I took three fronds, the biggest, and brought them up in a cardboard bedpan box so they wouldn't crush. He sat up when I came in, which he hasn't done since Sunday. He turned the leaflets over one at a time under the lamp like he was checking them for a fault, then said Brenda always told him you could tell a fern from the underside, because the spores sit in rows like stitching.

I didn't tell him I'd also taken the dried yarrow from the vase in the day room, the one with the brown heads that nobody has thrown out since Easter. Some things you don't explain at four in the morning. When I left he had laid the fronds across his chest and was holding the flower head by its stalk, not looking at anything, just holding it. I'll press the lot in the linen store tomorrow so it keeps. Love to Grandad. Tell him the tea here is still rubbish.