November 2025 - Lizzie Harper

Wildflower families: Asteraceae

Posted on 28th November 202528th November 2025 in Wildflower families

Wildflower families: Asteraceae, the Daisy family is one in a series of blogs on common flower families. My online Field Studies Council course gave me the idea for this series. I spend a lot of time drawing wildflowers, so it’s a good to learn more about their families and similarities and differences. For descriptions of […] Read more

Grasses of Montserrat and the Eastern Caribbean

Posted on 6th November 2025 in Botany: Telling species apart, Showcase of themed natural history illustrations

I was recently commissioned to illustrate some common grasses of Montserrat and the Eastern Caribbean by UKOTCF. As regular readers will know, this is something of a dream job for me. I first illustrated grasses way back in 2014, for the HarperCollins Flower Guide by David Streeter. Not knowing that I was planting the seeds […] Read more