Gardening

Yorkshire Fog Holcus lanatus grass with written name in hand painted watercolour text

Yorkshire Fog Holcus lanatus grass with annotations and name.  Parts include culm, inforescence or panicle, leaf blade, nodes, and internode.

Named Grasses with annotation of grass anatomy: False Oat, Crested Dogs-tail, Cocks-foot, and Yorkshire Fog

Grasses: False Oat Arrhenatherum elatius, Crested Dogs-tail Cynosurus cristatus, Cocks-foot Dactylis glomerata, and Yorkshire Fog Holcus lanatus.

False Oat grass Arrhenatherum elatius with written name botanical illustration

Botanical illustration of False Oat-grass showing spreading and compressed inflorescence, and swollen basal nodes.

Monstera and Calthea ferns growing together.  For a packaging job for Fernway.

Flower showing spreading habit, pale lilac flowers and rounded leaves

Monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus & Queen butterfly Danaus gilippus life cycle on Mexican milkweed Asclepias curassavica.  Illustration includes pupa and caterpillar for both species.

Ripe lemon with pair of leaves, cut to white.

Hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus with nettles, log pile, fungi, and butterfly. Illustration from The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Alexandre Antonelli

Wonky vegetables and fruit including potatoes, onions, carrots, and apples. Illustration from The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Alexandre Antonelli

Cretan orchid Cephalanthera cucullata.  Illustration from The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Alexandre Antonelli

One rose cut to white

Mulberry Morus nigra berries and leaf, colour on pen and ink drawing

Alaskan lupin Lupinus nootkanensis plant showing leaves and blue flowering spikes.

Nootka lupin Lupinus nootkanensis sketchbook studies showing details of leaflets, seed pods, seeds, root, habit sketch, and flower cross sections.

Nootka lupin sketch with notes showing details of leaflets, seed pods, seeds, root, habit sketch, and flower cross sections.

Habit sketch of Heath Star-moss Campylopus introflexus growing on limestone boulder.

Heath Star-moss Campylopus introflexus illustrations showing wet moss with white apical hairs.

Close up of the lily flower, face on.  Cut to white.

Jersey orchid Anacamptis laxiflora close up showing the top of the flowering spike, with three flowers.

Deadly nightshade Atropa belladonna showing plant with flowers and berries.

Stand of Japanese knotweed Reynoutria japonica Fallopia japonica showing thicket of stems and foliage