Colour botanical tattoo of a red rose, pink poppy and pale pink peony with green buds and leaves, running down a forearm.

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Rose, poppy and peony flowers on a forearm

Botanical · Forearm · Colour · Photo

The tattoo shows a red rose at the top, a magenta poppy with a purple centre on the left, and a large pale pink peony lower down, with small buds and green leaves filling the gaps. The petals are rendered with soft gradients and fine detail, with bright, saturated colour throughout. The flowers are arranged in a vertical cluster that follows the length of the forearm against a dark, blurred background.

Botanical Realism Forearm Rose Poppy Peony Flower Bud Leaves

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit yourself down on that crate, love, and mind the water, the floor's always wet before the lorries come. Now. You want the one about Ada Brannigan and the man with the torch? It was four in the morning, the hall lights buzzing like wasps, and the whole city asleep except us lot who sell it its weddings and its funerals in the same breath.

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He came to her stall under the railway arches with a list written on the back of a bus ticket. White roses, he said. Two dozen. Ada looked at the ticket, then at him, and told him she'd no whites left, only the red ones her uncle had forced in the glasshouse out at Ferrers Green. He stood there so long the lamp above them flickered twice. Then he asked what else she had that was loud. That was the word he used: loud.

So she gave him a poppy, pink as a slapped cheek, with a purple heart you could lose a thumb in, and a peony as big as a dinner plate that had no business being open in March. She wrapped them in yesterday's paper, and he paid her in coppers he'd counted out on the cold steel of the stall, one by one, like he was afraid of running short.

Next morning he was back, the bus ticket gone soft in his fist. Ada asked how the flowers had lasted. He said they hadn't, not really, but his wife had laughed at them until she cried, and that had been the point. Ada never did learn his name. The rose, she kept. She stood it in a jam jar on the sill above the stall, where the streetlight could reach it, and it burned there all winter.