Gardening

Leaf damage from Japanese beetle Popillia japonica with skeletal leaf and clustering beetles

Adult Japanese beetle Popillia japonica with distinctive abdominal white tufts

Japanese beetle Popillia japonica adult and life stages, with egg, grub or larva, and pupa

False acacia or Black locust Robinia pseudoacacia with flower and seed pod detail

Adult Apple maggot Rhagoletis pomonella on apple damaged by oviposition scars and maggots

Harebell illustration, slightly idealised and with extra blooms, completed for a packaging job.

Wood melick Melica uniflora with detail of ligule and individual floret

Cornflowers Centaurea cyanus in a meadow with Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius

Sketch of Pear blossom and leaves of Pyrus communis completed in pencil, tonal and line drawing

Sheet of Perry Pear sketches Pyrus communis completed in pencil

Pencil drawing of Pear and leaves Pyrus communis showing two fruit and a few leaves

Pear leaf Pyrus communis, tonal study in graphite pencil

Pear fruit Pyrus communis leaves tonal study showing typical growth pattern

Drawing of Pear blossom Pyrus communis.  Pencil line drawing.

‌Line drawing of Pear blossom Pyrus communis showing tip of branch, blossom and leaves

Blossom of Pear Pyrus communis tonal study.  Graphite sketch.

Tonal study of pear blossom showing flowers and leaves, sketchbook piece.

Three pear blossom flowers. Pencil botanical illustration.

Study of Pear leaves and flower Pyrus communis, cut to white.

Pear fruit with leaves shows one pear and sketched leaves behind.  Pencil.

Garden scene designed for use on seed packet for wild flowers.

Nesting tower for swifts, martins, & bats diagram showing the slots for bats, curved slits for swifts and nests for martins

Sessile Oak tree Quercus petraea showing habit and twisted branches

Lone flower of the Field forget me not showing distinctive geometry and bright blue colour of the bloom