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
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
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
Flower shape terminology diagram labelled, pen and ink with colour. Illustrating many of the more common terms.
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
Whorl diagram of leaf growth
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
Potato Solanum tuberosum vs Sweet potato pomoea batatas tuber diagram
Raceme diagram
Raceme diagram to show this flowering structure
Diagram of a Pollinia
Diagram of a Pollinia and within an orchid flower
Opposite leaf diagram
Opposite leaf diagram using nettle as example
Diagram of a palmate leaf
Diagram of a palmate leaf
Diagram of a panicle
Diagram of a panicle of flowers
Diagram of a pinnate leaf
Diagram of a pinnate leaf
Clover root nodule
Clover root nodule diagram
Node diagram
Node diagram
Monocot and Dicot
Monocot and Dicot plant schematics with root structure and generalised information about how leaves grow from the plant
Monochaisal Cyme diagram
Monochaisal Cyme diagram usinf forget me not as an example
Linear leaf diagram
Linear leaf diagram showing the long thin shape of this leaf type
Lobed leaf diagram
Lobed leaf diagram
Corolla lip diagram
Corolla lip diagram
Leaf axil diagram
Leaf axil diagram showing exactly where the leaf axil is located
Lanceolate leaf diagram
Lanceolate leaf diagram showing the simple leaf shape
Hellebore black death disease diagram
Hellebore black death affecting both the white flowers are the leaves, pen and ink with watercolour wash