botanical illustration

Sand hill screwmoss Wet specimen showing green starry tips against bronze background

Dry specimen showing how incurled the moss becomes when not wet

Syntrichia ruraliformis ruraliformis fascicle and leaf with hyaline tip

Western eyebright Euphrasia tetraquetra with leaf & flower detail

Sharp rush Juncus acutus with nutlet and inflorescence

Bog pimpernel Anagallis tenella showing sprawling habit

Perennial Cornflower Centaurea montana cut to white

Showing seed, pale pink flowers, woolly blue leaves and a seed

Showing yellow and cream colouration and sprawling, tufted habit  

Rough bent grass Agrostis scabra with details of spikelet and ligule

Little Bluestem grass Schizachryium scoparium including roots

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

Cannock chase berry Vaccinium x inermedium V. myrtillus x V. vitis-idaea

Sprig of this iconic spring plant with pussy willow catkins coming into flower. Catkins appear before leaves emerge.

Self heal Prunella vulgaris botanical watercolour illustration

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

Great burnet Sanguisorba officinalis with detail of individual flower

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

Sketchbook study of the Potato showing different varieties, flower colours, the fruit, and how to chit potatoes.  With written notes.

Potato Food Products: Chips or French fries, sliced, boiled, baked potatoes, potato chips or crisps

Plums and Custard Fungus tricholomopsis rutilans showing mature and young fruting bodies.  This fungi is distinctive in its purple mottling on a cream background.

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

Spotted hyena Crocuta crocuta with leg bone of giraffe