Pen & Ink

Safely pricking out seedlings from a seed tray

How to take basal cuttings from a perennial and trim the base before covering it with a bag in a pot until it’s established when the cuttings can be separated and re plantied or plated out

Example of a fruit tree grown into a dwarf pyramid pattern

Example of a fruit tree grown into a step over or low espalier type or pattern

Six different ways to design one garden showing how much variety you can find

Basic overview of the different shapes and styles of greenhouse available

Steps involved in laying paving slabs or stones and keeping them level and flat and removing the mortar from between the slabs

Spider mite damage webbing and mite illustration

How to safely remove a branch, two steps showing the cuts involved

Six steps showing how to ready the ground, dig your pond, line your pond, and successfully fill your pond with water

Chart showing how deep to plant different spring bulbs along with illustrations of the flower each bulb produces

Diagram showing how to dig up clumping perennials such as hosta and divide them with the blade of a spade before returning them to the soil

Aphid on rose showing damage done to youg leaves and an aphid in side view, cut to white

Picture showing black death virus effects on a hellebore flower and on the leaves

Leaf showing signs of fungal wilt with infected branch behind; the leaf is discoloured and wilted

Ink landscape of the wetlands of the Okavango delta in Botswana showing palm trees, wetlands, and associated wildlife such as hippo, cranes, termite mounds, storks, and crocodile

Ink landscape of a peat bog upland with wading wetland birds including curlew, green plover or peewit, great northern diver, and golden plover in summer plumage all gathered around a shallow tarn or pool

Wetland landscape of a rice paddy with a farmer tending the rice plants in the flooded fields and with Cattle egret, White crane, palm trees, and women planting rice in the distance near a hut or shelter, mountains loom up behind the pastoral scene as the crane flies overhead

Stylized diagram of the duck egg showing chalaza, yolk, white, germination, membranes, and air pocket

Smew Mergellus albellus pen and ink illustration of the bird swimming on water

Pigeon Columba livia skeleton simple line drawing

Mallard duck Anas platyrhynchos female with four inquisitive ducklings, pen and ink drawing with the mother duck facing right and the four ducklings busy exploring behind her.

Mallard Anas platyrhynchos fledgling with moulting feathers on grass

Stylized diagram of the development of a duck egg from being laid until after hatching Day one yolk held in place with chalaza, germinal disc where fertilized chick starts to grow