Garden scene
Garden scene designed for use on seed packet for wild flowers.
Greater Bird’s-foot trefoil Lotus pendunculatus
Greater Bird’s-foot trefoil Lotus pendunculatus or Lotus uliginosus with calyx detail
Ideal Garden: a garden for nature and the environment
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
Butterfly bush Buddleja davidii sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant
Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines butterfly on Cuckoo flower side view
Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines butterfly on Cuckoo flower Cardamine pratense side view
Orange-tip butterfly Anthocharis cardamines
Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines butterfly. Illustration shows male butterfly with wings open.
Bird’s-foot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus
Completed for Butterfly Conservation. The plant shows flowers and seed pods.
Orange-tip butterfly with Cuckoo-flower
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 Ladies smock Cardamine pratensis
Cuckooflower or Lady’s-smock Cardamine pratensis showing basal rosette, flowers, and young silique seed pods.
Monarch & Queen butterflies on Mexican milkweed
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
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
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
White Admiral Limenitis camilla butterflies with view of upper and lower wing, feeding on blackberry flowers
Small skipper Thymelicus sylvestris
Small skipper Thymelicus sylvestris natural history illustration on grasses
Hay meadow cross section
Hay meadow cross section showing mole burrow and roots below the soil and flowers, butterflies, and insects above ground
Yorkshire fog Holcus lanatus
Yorkshire fog Holcus lanatus plant with lemma, ligule, and spikelet detail
Vipers Bugloss Echium vulgare
Vipers Bugloss Echium vulgare flowering spike
Sunflower Helianthus annuus
Sunflower Helianthus annuus close up of one flwoer
Ragged robin Lychnis flos cuculi
Ragged robin Lychnis flos cuculi with flowers, buds and leaves
Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria
Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria with three flowering spikes
Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria in pencil
Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria pencil drawing
Oxeye daisy Leucanthemum vulgare
Oxeye daisy Leucanthemum vulgare with flowers and bud
Meadow with wild flowers and insects
Meadow with wild flowers and insects and lark in the sky above, showing fertilized grassland without any other species then a gradual increase in flowers and other species until, in unimproved grassland, you have lots of wild flowers and associated insects, snails, and loveliness
Horseshoe vetch Hippocrepis comosa
Horseshoe vetch Hippocrepis comosa with wiggly seed poda and yellow flowers