![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.
![Bog Rosemary Andromeda polifolia](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Bog Rosemary Andromeda polifolia
Bog Rosemary Andromeda polifolia showing distinctive bell-like flowers
![Spreading Cotoneaster Cotoneaster divaricatus Sketchbook study](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Spreading Cotoneaster Cotoneaster divaricatus Sketchbook study
Spreading Cotoneaster Cotoneaster divaricatus Sketchbook study showing leaf vein patters, underneath of leaves, twigs, branching pattern, and autumn foliage. Also shown are details of the Spreading cotoneaster berry, flowers, cross section of a flower, and habit sketch. For more on cotoneaster species, look at my blog.
![Snow-in-Summer Cerastium tomentosum Sketchbook Study](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Snow-in-Summer Cerastium tomentosum Sketchbook Study
Snow-in-Summer or Dusty Miller Cerastium tomentosum sketchbook study showing habit sketch and detail of an asexual sprig. Seed and seed coat detail, calyx, leaf, flower and flower cross section are also depicted. Details of the bud and fur on leaf also appear.
![Caucasian Stonecrop Sedum spurius](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Caucasian Stonecrop Sedum spurius
Caucasian Stonecrop Sedum spurius sketchbook study. Illustration shows details of plant, flowers, a habit sketch, and an individual flower. Also includes details of the leaf edge, and Sedum spurius purpurea plant (Dragon’s blood sedum).
![Himalayan Blackberry Rubus armeniacus](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Himalayan Blackberry Rubus armeniacus
Himalayan Blackberry Rubus armeniacus. Sketchbook illustration shows flower, flower cross section, leaf shape and underside, stem, seed, early fruit and seed detail
![Ground elder Aegopodium podagraria](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Ground elder Aegopodium podagraria
Ground elder Aegopodium podagraria showing individual seed and flower as well as spreading roots
![Periwinkle Vinca major flower sketch](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Periwinkle Vinca major flower sketch
Periwinkle Vinca major flower sketch concentrating on the blues of the petals.
![Japanese honeysuckle Lonicera japonica](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Japanese honeysuckle Lonicera japonica
Japanese honeysuckle Lonicera japonica showing white flowers, dark green leaves and black berries
![Piri Piri bur Acaena novae-zelandiae](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Piri Piri bur Acaena novae-zelandiae
Piri Piri bur Acaena novae-zelandiae with individual detail of flower and seed
![Chickweed Stellaria mediea](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Chickweed Stellaria mediea
Pen and ink botanical illustration of Chickweed Stellaria mediea
![White clover Trifolium repens](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
White clover Trifolium repens
White clover Trifolium repens showing rooting nodes and pale chevrons on the leaves
![Rye grass Lolium perenne](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Rye grass Lolium perenne
Rye grass Lolium perenne and individual spikelet
![Mountain avans Dryas octopetala](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Mountain avans Dryas octopetala
Mountain avans Dryas octopetala plant with flowrs and detail of a lone seed head
![Crowberry Empetrum nigrum](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Crowberry Empetrum nigrum
Crowberry Empetrum nigrum in fruit with individual leaf, flower, and leaf cross section which shows the inrolled leaf margin
![Bearberry Arctostaphylos uva ursi](https://lizzieharper.co.uk/wp-content/themes/lizzie/images/px.jpg)
Bearberry Arctostaphylos uva ursi
Bearberry Arctostaphylos uva ursi in berry showing intricate netwrok on veins on each leaf and rooting nodes