gardens

Mountain pansy Viola lutea with several flowers and showing the different leaf shapes

Nigella and Scabious bouquet with Nigella seed pods

Garden border in spring with tulips, crocus, daffodils and daisies abutting a carefully tended lawn and edged with concrete slabs

Fat Hen Chenopodium album with pale underside of leaf showing along with green flowers

Creeping buttercup Ranunculus repens with rooting nodes, flowers, fruit, and the leaves shown

Black eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta with three blooms, one in flower, one in bud, and one going over

Alpine ladies mantle alchemilla alpina with pale underside of leaves ahown and fibrous root area

Garden border in spring with tulips, crocus, daffodils and daisies abutting a carefully tended lawn and edged with concrete slabs

Cow parsley illustration in pencil with details of stem, leaves and flowering head picked out in watercolour, and with a small view of the plant grwing at a distance, close up study of the individual flower and its anatomy

Forget me not Myosotis sketchbook study concentrating on the blue flowers and details of how these are carried in relation to the seed pods, an accompanying sprig is shown in detailed pencil

Study of the Polygala fruticosa sweet pea shrub with full colour detail of two flowers from various angles and the simple leaves growing up the stem, pencil line drawing shows the rest of the plant shape and growth habit

Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus perched on top of a post with moss at its feet

Great Tit Parus major on a tree branch with grasses behind