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Monocot plant variety with seedling.  Plants shown are: Soft-leaved or Mountain sedge Carex montan, Meadow saffron Colchium autumnale, Fragrant orchid Gymnadenia conopsed, Bluebell Hyacinthoides non-scripta, Wood rush Luzula sylvatica, and Sweet vernal grass Anthoxanthum odoratum

Monocot plant variety featuring numerous monocots such as rush, grass, bluebell, sedge, and crocus.

Bluebell sketch Hyacinthoides non-scripta showing blue flowers and strap-like leaves

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

Spring squill Scilla verna botanical illustration by Lizzie Harper showing large bulb

Few flowered leek Alium paradoxum showing flowers and fruit, with cross section of stem and one leaf.

Monbretia Crocosmia x crocosmiliiflora plant showing orange flowers and corms

Spanish bluebell Hyacinthoides hispanica showing pale blue flowers and differences between this and the native Bluebell Hyacinthoides non-scripta.  For more, please see my blog on telling the difference between these species.dark anthers, blue anthers,

Three cornered Garlic Allium triquetrum with detail of stem cross section, flower, and bud

Three cornered leek Allium triquetrum pen and ink illustration with detail of one flower

Ramsons Allium ursinum with details of the flowers, seeds and wild garlic bulb

How to build a raised bed from planks showing attachments of horizontal planks to the vertical uprights, and how to secure the bed in the ground

Safely pricking out seedlings from a seed tray

Diagram showing how to do double digging of a flower bed or vegetable plot

Wild daffodil Narcissus pseudonarcissus straight on and in side view

Wild garlic Allium ursinum in flower, pencil

Wild garlic Allium ursinum leaf and flowering head with flowers out and in bud

Snakeshead fritillary Fritillaria meleagris flowers

Snowdrop Galanthus nivalis pencil drawing

Snowdrop Galanthus nivalis with one flower

Fennel Foeniculum vulgare pencil illustration showing the fennel and the highly branched leaves

Chive Allium schoenoprasum flower and edible leaves

Bluebell Hyacinthoides non-scripta Pencil illustration with three flowers and floppy leaves showing paralell veins

Bluebell Hyacinthoides non-scripta in a patch of grass and the flowers colouring the stem of the plant