countryside

Ash dieback symptoms Fraxinus excelsior Chalaria showing damaged inside of wood, damage on bark, little white fungal bodies, withered leaves on the branch, and individuall diseased leaf, the tree with exposed branches due to die back and a branch with siwtheres fronds of leaves on it

Ash Fraxinus excelsior pen and ink stippled drawing of the tree without leaves

Ash Fraxinus excelsior twig in bud and leaf spray

Autumn crocus Colchicum autumnale two flowers and leaf

Autumn leaf study of an Acer showing bright vivid red and yellow colours, leaf has damage and minor holes

Auxin diagram showing how applying auxin to the top of a plant encourages vertical rather than lateral growth

Avalanche rose Rosa two in bloom with dark leaves and white petals

Barberry Burberis vulgaris with red berries, yellow flowers and spiny twigs

Barley Hordeum vulgare with green and mature ripe seed head

Abscission diagram showing ho w the abscission layer lets the leaf fall off without exposing the plant to pathogens

Barren brome grass Anisantha sterilis with spikelet detail

Bugle Ajuga reptans plant with stolon

Barren strawberry Potentilla sterilis with stolom and small inedible fruit

Iris in gravel with blue petals

Garden border in spring with tulips, crocus, daffodils and daisies abutting a carefully tended lawn and edged with concrete slabs

Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus in flight

Brown trout Salmo trutta from chalk stream (with red spots)

Brown trout Salmo trutta view from above showing swimming motion with background of weeds and pebbles

Distant landscape of hills and fiels with a tree in the midground, in the foreground butterflies such as the ringlet and meadow brown rest on orchids and buttercups

Snipe flying across a ride clearing in woodland with forestry behind showing how to manage and harvest trees and related prodcuts such as charcoal, coppicing and timber; a distant pool and alder carr gives way to clear fell forestry on distant hills and patchy clearings; in the foreground wild flowers and butterflies are shown growing […]

Traditional stone hump backed bridge with two arches crossing over the river Enelode which runs beneath it, flanked with maringal vegetation and plants

Three views of fenland with increasignly complex networks of inter dependent species, culminating in a rich landscape with wild flowers, a hobby hunting dragonfly, and heacy with insect life

View of a traditional little house in the northern village of Coxwold with trees behind and wisteria growing up the front

View of the river Wye over a still pool with overhanging tree and a little row boat moored by the river bank, distant hills behind