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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.

Hedgerows encourage birds, mammals, and insects and are easy to integrate into a garden.  this Swedish garden scene shows this priniciple.

Illustrations showing a garden with closely cropped grass, a lot of hard surfaces, few trees and shrubs, and non-native annuals which don’t support pollinators.  For more please check out my blog  and the associated blog, on how to take steps to having an ideal garden.

Flower shape terminology diagram labelled, pen and ink with colour.  Illustrating many of the more common terms.

Whorl diagram of leaf growth

Wind pollinators showing close up of individual flowers along with larger plant; dandelion, grass flower, and catkins. All use wind for pollination. Pen and ink with colour wash

Potato Solanum tuberosum vs Sweet potato pomoea batatas tuber diagram

Diagram of schematic tree, very simplified colour wash over pen and ink showing how the root system is as large as the tree above ground

Raceme diagram to show this flowering structure

Opposite leaf diagram using nettle as example

Diagram of a palmate leaf

Diagram of a panicle of flowers

Diagram of a pinnate leaf

Diagram of a Pollinia and within an orchid flower

Node diagram

Clover root nodule diagram

Monochaisal Cyme diagram usinf forget me not as an example

Monocot and Dicot plant schematics with root structure and generalised information about how leaves grow from the plant

Corolla lip diagram

Lobed leaf diagram

Lanceolate leaf diagram showing the simple leaf shape

Leaf axil diagram showing exactly where the leaf axil is located

Linear leaf diagram showing the long thin shape of this leaf type

Hellebore black death affecting both the white flowers are the leaves, pen and ink with watercolour wash