Pen & Ink

Wind pollinators showing close up of individual flowers along with larger plant; dandelion, grass flower, and catkins. All use wind for pollination. Pen and ink with colour wash

Germinating seed from a grain through six stages to show how the cotelydon leaves emerge and the roots grow

Auxin diagram showing how applying auxin to the top of a plant encourages vertical rather than lateral growth

Pen and ink portrait of the head of a leopard Panthera pardus regarding the viewer with an unblinking steely stare

Pen and ink portrait of the head of a leopard Panthera pardus regarding the viewer with an unblinking steely stare

Pen and ink illustration of the Crested porcupine Hystrix cristata looking sideways at the viewer, cut to white

Seahorse family diagram showing pipefish, leafy seadragon, and other syngnathidae

European Rockpool diagram showing lots of shoreline crustaceans, bivalves, anenomes, and gastropods, sea weeds, and background

How to divide a large clump or iris, tease the roots apart and re plant the divided plants

Steps involved in establishing and planting up a hanging basket including how to allow plants to grow out sideways and how to re plant flowers in the new basket

Garlic plait showing how the dired out leaves of each garlic plant can be pliated together to hold the bubs in a neat bundle, ready for use in the kitchen or for drying

Garlic being plaited together for storage and drying, illustration showing the way to include more bulbs to make a big clutch of garlic bulbs

White rose showing damage grom the garden pest thrip which leads to discolouration, browning, and a sick lookin plant, insect inset

Three different sets of crops to grow on the same site which ensures the variety of vegetables grown won’t suffer pest damage which they could do if planted repeatedly on the same site. Vegetables shown include peas beans chicory and onions, sprouts cauliflower cabbage and broccoli, and celery carrots turnips potato and beetroot

Landscape showing Yellow flag iris, meadowsweet, arrow root growing next to a stream wending its way through a meadow, Black and white.

Illustration incorporating lots of animals found in the African tropical rainforests of Ghana including monkey, hornbill, sunbird, bongo, jaguar, sunsquirrel, driver ant, pangolin, and moniter lizard

Stylized diagram of the skeelton of a duck

Aspen tree Populus tremula showing shrubby habit form

Green woodpecker Picus viridis anting for parasite removal

Greater Spotted woodpecker Dendrocopos major seeking food.  Using its beak to pry under areas of bark, the woodpecker looks for small insects.

Digestive system of bird using domestic chicken, in diagram format, with close up of gizzard

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

Bighorn sheep Ovis canadensis fighting, using his horns to charge at a mating rival.

Comparison of Beak use in Darwin’s Finches.  Stippled illustration showing singing, feeding, and preening.