gardening

Sketch showing one flower, buds, and leaves.  Tendrils are only beginning to grow.

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.

Potato Plant in flower with potatoes growing below the soil.  Plant has grown from a chitted potato.

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.

Potatoes in sack shows a batch of newly dug potatoes in a hessian sack, with some rolling out.

Potato varieries and one green potato about to sprout

Sketchbook study of the Potato showing different varieties, flower colours, the fruit, and how to chit potatoes.  With written notes.

Potato Food Products: Chips or French fries, sliced, boiled, baked potatoes, potato chips or crisps

Fountain Grass Pennisetum setaceum sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Oregon Grape Mahonia aquifolium sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Yellow Loosestrife Lysimachia punctata sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Butterfly bush Buddleja davidii sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Old Man’s Beard Clematis vitalba sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Giant Goldenrod Solidago gigantea sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Himalayan Knotweed Persicaria polystachum sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Narrow-leaved Ragwort Senecio inaequidens sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Oriental Bittersweet Celastrus orbiculatus sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Snowberry Symphoricarpos albus sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Pen and ink illustration for title on Poetry anthology

Garden bumblebee cut to white showing markings and shaggy long hair

Balsam poplar Populus balsamifera catkins fruit and leaves with annotations within a border Illustration from “The Treeline: The last forest and the future of the planet” by Ben Rawlence (publ. Jan 2022)

Honeysuckle berries Lonicera pericylmenum with leaves and showing these bright, shiny berries.

Peony flower Paeonia lactiflora, shown just coming into bloom.

Magnolia flower Magnolia grandiflora, single flower.