![Ideal Garden: a garden for nature and the environment](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
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.
![Lilac Hedgerow encouraging wildlife](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Lilac Hedgerow encouraging wildlife
Hedgerows encourage birds, mammals, and insects and are easy to integrate into a garden. this Swedish garden scene shows this priniciple.
![Non environmentally and nature friendly garden](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Non environmentally and nature friendly garden
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 shapes terminology diagram labelled](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Flower shapes terminology diagram labelled
Flower shape terminology diagram labelled, pen and ink with colour. Illustrating many of the more common terms.
![Wind pollinators diagram](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Wind pollinators diagram
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
![Diagram of a whorl of leaves](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Diagram of a whorl of leaves
Whorl diagram of leaf growth
![Diagram of schematic tree](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Diagram of schematic tree
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
![Potato Solanum tuberosum vs Sweet potato pomoea batatas tuber diagram](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Potato Solanum tuberosum vs Sweet potato pomoea batatas tuber diagram
Potato Solanum tuberosum vs Sweet potato pomoea batatas tuber diagram
![Raceme diagram](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Raceme diagram
Raceme diagram to show this flowering structure
![Diagram of a Pollinia](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Diagram of a Pollinia
Diagram of a Pollinia and within an orchid flower
![Opposite leaf diagram](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Opposite leaf diagram
Opposite leaf diagram using nettle as example
![Diagram of a palmate leaf](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Diagram of a palmate leaf
Diagram of a palmate leaf
![Diagram of a panicle](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Diagram of a panicle
Diagram of a panicle of flowers
![Diagram of a pinnate leaf](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Diagram of a pinnate leaf
Diagram of a pinnate leaf
![Clover root nodule](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Clover root nodule
Clover root nodule diagram
![Node diagram](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Node diagram
Node diagram
![Monocot and Dicot](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Monocot and Dicot
Monocot and Dicot plant schematics with root structure and generalised information about how leaves grow from the plant
![Monochaisal Cyme diagram](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Monochaisal Cyme diagram
Monochaisal Cyme diagram usinf forget me not as an example
![Linear leaf diagram](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Linear leaf diagram
Linear leaf diagram showing the long thin shape of this leaf type
![Lobed leaf diagram](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Lobed leaf diagram
Lobed leaf diagram
![Corolla lip diagram](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Corolla lip diagram
Corolla lip diagram
![Leaf axil diagram](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Leaf axil diagram
Leaf axil diagram showing exactly where the leaf axil is located
![Lanceolate leaf diagram](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Lanceolate leaf diagram
Lanceolate leaf diagram showing the simple leaf shape
![Hellebore black death disease diagram](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Hellebore black death disease diagram
Hellebore black death affecting both the white flowers are the leaves, pen and ink with watercolour wash