Gardening

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

Sketch showing one flower, buds, and leaves.  Tendrils are only beginning to grow.

Orchid diagram with hand written labels. line drawing with colour wash

With stem detail showing swollen red bases of stem hairs

Perennial Cornflower Centaurea montana cut to white

Giant Hogweed Heracleum mantegazzianum showing red spotted stems and variable leaf shape

Common Poppy Papaver rhoeas with seedhead, top of seedhead, and seed detail

Ideal garden full of things you can do to encourage nature and promote soil health in your garden For more please check out my blog, and the associated blog on how NOT to have an ideal garden.

Potato Plant in flower with potatoes growing below the soil.  Plant has grown from a chitted potato.

Illustration of the Carbon cycle, with all the elements and chemicals involved in the cycle (but omitting arrows and english text).  For more on this illustration, check out my blog

Hedgerows encourage birds, mammals, and insects and are easy to integrate into a garden.  this Swedish garden scene shows this priniciple.

Illustrations showing a garden with closely cropped grass, a lot of hard surfaces, few trees and shrubs, and non-native annuals which don’t support pollinators.  For more please check out my blog  and the associated blog, on how to take steps to having an ideal garden.

Used as the basis for a diagram showing the Carbon cycle. For more on this illustration, check out my blog

Potatoes in sack shows a batch of newly dug potatoes in a hessian sack, with some rolling out.

Potato varieries and one green potato about to sprout

Sketch of Potato Solanum tuberosum without annotations or written notes.

Wasps and bees hibernating in cracks in an old wall, showing common UK bee and social wasp species in the mortar of a church wall

Fountain Grass Pennisetum setaceum sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Car crushed by a fallen pine tree.  Illustration shows secondary crushing forces in nature.