Two artistically beautiful stamps appear in June. Photographer and florist Tiina Tahvanainen has featured a white and a yellow water lily.

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published June 28th, 2013

Christmas Island is covered with lush green vegetation and is notable for its flora and fauna. It is home to around 411 plant species, of which 213 are native and about 18 endemic.

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published June 20th, 2013

The new stamp and first-day cover depicts violet iris flowers. The print run is 500,000 stamps, the denomination – LVL 0.35 and EUR 0.50, corresponding to the cost of mailing a regular letter within Latvia.

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published March 28th, 2013

The International Bouquet Competition never fails to amaze its many visitors with the quality of the floral designs in competition.

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published February 12th, 2013

In celebration of Floral Guernsey’s 20th anniversary we are delighted to depict a unique image on our miniature sheet, the Floral Guernsey flower, which is a new daffodil especially bred by horticulturalist Rae Beckwith. Here Mr Beckwith explains the story behind the creation of Floral Guernsey:-.

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published October 13th, 2012

Sweden Post has been issuing special summer stamps with a wonderful summer feel for many years.

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published September 5th, 2012

A new series of stamps is of mushrooms growing in Estonia. The first stamp in the series shows the deadly Amanita virosa, commonly known as the European destroying angel.

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published September 5th, 2012

Sun flower -stamp has got a new inventing design – partly sketch, partly ready with colours makes the flower itself come up clearly.

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published August 20th, 2012

The beauty of spring is captured in a stunning new flower stamp series by Canada Post issued today. The seventh issue of these PERMANENT^TM stamps recognizes the daylily (Hemerocallis) in its classic and recognizable orange, paired by a contrasting, exotic purple. These stamps are among the most popular of the year, usually for upcoming wedding invitations and any gardeners’ stamps supplies.

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published March 5th, 2012

Nina Spore Kreutzmann has once again created two beautiful designs of Greenlandic herbs, this time with Northern Bilberry and Labrador tea. The series, which began in 2011, consists of a total of six stamps of which the last two will be issued in 2013.

Technical Details

Issue Date: 16.01.2012

Designer: Nina Spore Kreutzmann

Printer: Offset

Process: Offset

Values: 14.50 DKK, 18.50 DKK

Source: Wopa

published January 20th, 2012

The 2012 New Zealand Native Trees stamp issue features five gummed stamps which portray five iconic native New Zealand trees. Each of the beautiful species is depicted in a detailed illustrative style and the scientific name of each species is included in the design – adding to the authenticity of the issue.

New Zealand’s isolation from the rest of the world has allowed its unique flora to evolve and flourish, resulting in the distinctive array of native trees present today. This high degree of endemism makes New Zealand’s native trees truly special, so much so that Conservation International has recognised New Zealand as a world biodiversity hotspot. Almost all of New Zealand’s native species of conifers, flowering trees and tree ferns occur nowhere else – resulting in native forests like no other on Earth.  (read more)

published January 16th, 2012