butterflies

Illustration for Roselyn Seeds packaging showing wild flowers in meadow setting

Small tortoiseshell Aglais urticae butterfly at rest with wings only slightly open.

Garden scene designed for use on seed packet for wild flowers.

Greater Bird’s-foot trefoil Lotus pendunculatus or Lotus uliginosus with calyx detail

Ideal garden full of things you can do to encourage nature and promote soil health in your garden For more please check out my blog, and the associated blog on how NOT to have an ideal garden.

Butterfly bush Buddleja davidii sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines butterfly on Cuckoo flower Cardamine pratense side view

Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines butterfly.  Illustration shows male butterfly with wings open.

Completed for Butterfly Conservation.  The plant shows flowers and seed pods.

Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines butterfly with Cuckoo-flower Cardamine pratensis.  Illustration shows male butterfly with wigs open, and another with wings folder closed on the host plant Cuckoo-flower (or Ladies’ smock)

Cuckooflower or Lady’s-smock Cardamine pratensis showing basal rosette, flowers, and young silique seed pods.

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

Welsh meadow landscape with Redstart, buzzard, swallows and lots of butterflies (Gilfach Nature reserve).  Numerous animal species illustrated include swallows, hoverfly, grasshopper, and bees.  Flowers include knapweed, thistles, buttercup, bedstraws, betony, sedges, and other riverside meadow plants.

Coastal Hay Meadow in Devon (Bentham).  Illustration shows idealised grassland scene with insects, birds, and wild flowers one would hope to see in a well managed coastal hay meadow.

White Admiral Limenitis camilla butterflies with view of upper and lower wing, feeding on blackberry flowers

Small skipper Thymelicus sylvestris natural history illustration on grasses

Hay meadow cross section showing mole burrow and roots below the soil and flowers, butterflies, and insects above ground

Yorkshire fog Holcus lanatus plant with lemma, ligule, and spikelet detail

Vipers Bugloss Echium vulgare flowering spike

Sunflower Helianthus annuus close up of one flwoer

Ragged robin Lychnis flos cuculi with flowers, buds and leaves

Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria with three flowering spikes

Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria pencil drawing

Oxeye daisy Leucanthemum vulgare with flowers and bud