gardening

Large grey or metal pot full of growing plants with red flowers and foliage making for a centre pice or point of focus in the garden

Leaves and bud and flower of a rose covered wuith powdery mildew and mould, and causing discolouration of the leaves

Red spider mite Tetranychus urticae cut to white pen and ink with colour wash sketch, plant behind with typical webbing and spider mite damage

Garden with plastic sheet on the grass catching the bamboo cuttings which are being taken off the potted plants with secateurs. Dead leaves piled up and blue sky behind

Aphid on rose showing damage done to youg leaves and an aphid in side view, cut to white

Little rocket seedlings growing in a seedling tray in compost, ready to be thinned out or planted on

Robin Erithacus rubecula with a worm in its beak returning to an open fronted nest box attached to the trunk of a tree with a blue sky behind

Common toad Bufo bufo with wildlife friendly garden home