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Poison Garden botanical color palette collection showing poisonous flowers, berries, leaves and extracted color combinations from Botanical Color Studio.

Botanical Color Studio

Color drawn from plants, translated for creative work.

Botanical Color Studio is a growing color library built from flowers, foliage, berries, seeds, stems and other plant structures.

Botanical sources are studied through their individual visual states, then translated into curated color palettes and color combinations for branding, packaging, graphic design, interiors, art direction and visual research.

Botanical color study showing contrasting flower and leaf textures translated into purple and green color references.

A flower is rarely just one color.

Neither is a leaf, berry, seed pod or stem.

Botanical Color Studio looks closer.

Instead of reducing a plant to one generic shade, the system studies individual botanical states: petals, flower centers, pollen, leaves, berries, stems, seeds and other distinctive details.

The process moves from:

Botanical source → visual state → extracted color → usable color combination

The result is botanical color inspiration grounded in real visual material rather than arbitrary swatches.

FEATURED COLLECTION

Poison Garden — 50 Botanical Color Combinations

Poison Garden — 50 Botanical Color Combinations, a 110-page botanical color palette collection with 100 HEX color references.

Color drawn from the beautiful and dangerous.

Poison Garden explores the unexpected colors found within 50 poisonous botanicals — from familiar garden flowers to berries, leaves, stems, seeds and pods.

Each botanical system begins with two richly detailed source textures. The imagery is then stripped away to reveal a clean, practical two-color combination with HEX references.

Some combinations are dramatic. Others are quiet, strange or unexpectedly elegant.

The collection moves far beyond the expected dark purple and poisonous green, with acidic yellows, vivid reds, mineral blues, pale neutrals, bruised purples, earthy browns and botanical greens.

Inside Poison Garden

50 poisonous botanicals
50 curated two-color combinations
100 individual HEX color references
110 pages

Also included:

  • Botanical names and selected visual states

  • Rich botanical source imagery

  • Source texture → color combination sequences

  • Botanical index

  • Collection methodology

  • Creative-use license

Created for

Brand identity
Packaging design
Graphic design
Editorial design
Art direction
Interiors
Illustration
Digital content
Visual research
Personal creative projects

Use the combinations directly as starting points or expand them with neutrals, accents and supporting shades to create larger color systems.

$19 · Digital PDF

From botanical source to usable color

Botanical Color Studio process showing poisonous plant textures translated into curated HEX colors and usable two-color combinations.

01 · Observe the source

Start with a specific flower, leaf, berry, seed, stem or other botanical structure.

02 · Isolate the visual state

One botanical can contain several completely different color stories.

A petal does not necessarily share the color of its throat.
A berry does not share the color of its leaf.
A seed pod can introduce an entirely different neutral.

03 · Extract the color

Each selected state becomes a curated representative color with a usable HEX reference.

04 · Build the combination

Selected colors are paired into practical systems that can move beyond botanical imagery and into real creative work.

Botanical inspiration becomes usable color direction.

30 Rare Flower Color Palettes by Mariya Design, an unusual floral color archive with 120 named HEX color references.

SECOND COLLECTION

30 Rare Flower Color Palettes

An editorial archive of unusual floral color.

The collection that started the Botanical Color Studio direction.

30 rare flower palettes built from unusual floral references, with 120 named colors and HEX values for branding, packaging, interiors, content, moodboards and visual identity exploration.

Dark. Soft. Powdered. Smoky. Romantic. Poisonous. Ceremonial. Strange.

A different way to explore floral color beyond predictable pinks, greens and pastels.

Botanical reference without the generic botanical palette.

Botanical Color Studio is built around specific visual evidence.

The goal is not to classify plants scientifically or reproduce every color found in nature.

The goal is to identify distinctive botanical color relationships that can become useful creative references.

Use the archive for:

  • Brand identity direction

  • Packaging concepts

  • Graphic and editorial design

  • Product collections

  • Interior palettes

  • Campaign direction

  • Social and digital content

  • Moodboards

  • Illustration

  • Creative research

  • Client presentations

A growing botanical color archive

Poison Garden and Rare Flower Color Palettes are the first collections inside a larger Botanical Color Studio system.

The underlying library is being built across:

Flowers
Foliage
Berries and fruits
Seeds
Pods and capsules
Stems
Bark
Dried botanicals
Rare and unusual plant material

Future collections will explore different botanical subjects, color families and creative directions without requiring the entire source library to be exposed at once.

A creative color reference — not a botanical guide

Botanical Color Studio is created for color inspiration, visual research and creative direction.

It is not a botanical identification, medical, gardening, foraging or safety resource.

Do not use Poison Garden imagery or descriptions to identify, handle or consume plants.

Poison Garden botanical color combinations collection by Botanical Color Studio

Explore color where it actually grows.

Discover unexpected color relationships hidden inside flowers, foliage, berries, seeds and other botanical structures.

50 poisonous botanicals → 50 usable color combinations
100 HEX references · 110-page downloadable PDF

Start with Poison Garden.

Botanical Color Studio by Mariya Design
Part of Color Systems by Mariya

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