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Garden Beds Seen From Above in Pressed Plants

A garden seen from above as neat rectangular beds of pressed fern, rose petals, maple leaves and lavender with a round marigold bed at the centre.

Prompt

Assemble the subject from flattened leaves, petals and thin plant fragments, using their natural shapes, veins and overlapping edges as the image vocabulary while keeping the material dry and pressed, with dry pressed-plant texture visible everywhere. A garden seen from above as neat rectangular beds separated by narrow paths: each bed built from a different pressed material, ferns for one, rose petals for another, ginkgo and maple leaves for a third, lavender sprigs for a fourth, with the paths as pale grass blades and a small round bed at the centre made from marigold petals. Light: flat even overhead daylight on an off-white paper ground, shown by lighter and darker leaf tones and thin natural shadows where fragments overlap, the paths leading to the round central bed. Palette of fern green, rose, amber, violet and ivory paper; precise, tactile, quiet, herbarium-like finish. Wide 16:9 landscape frame. No people, animals, readable text, signs or logos.

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