hedgerow

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

Hedgerows encourage birds, mammals, and insects and are easy to integrate into a garden.  this Swedish garden scene shows this priniciple.

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

Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum showing two blooms with twisting stems.

Cow Parsley sketchbook study sheet.  Detail of seed head, flowers, and leaves and roots are shown.

Cow Parsley sketchbook study sheet with written notes.  Detail of seed head, flowers, and leaves and roots are shown.

Habit sketch of Cow parsley Anthriscus sylvatica with hollow stem & leaf attachment detail

Cow parsley Anthriscus sylvaticus Habit sketch showing entire plant.

Himalayan Blackberry Rubus armeniacus.  Sketchbook illustration shows flower, flower cross section, leaf shape and underside, stem, seed, early fruit and seed detail

Field maple Acer campestre pen and ink illustration with watercolour wash.  Illustration shows winged seeds flushed with red, and spread at species specific wide angle.

Blackthorn Sloe Prunus spinosa pen and ink illustration showing fruit and blossom on a spiny branch with watercolour wash

Hazel showing hazelnut selection and iconic catkins

Hazel tree showing typical shrubby growth pattern and habit

Sloes on spiny branch

Shrub showing habit and growth form

Sloe Prunus spinosa sketchbook study including stuck in leaf and studies of fruit and blossom

Hedgerow bedstraw Galium mollugo showing the plant’s sprawling habit.  With detail of one leaf.

Ground ivy Glechoma hederacea pen and ink line drawing with detail of oen flower

Dog rose Rosa canina Sketchbook study with details of rosehips and flowers

Blackberry Rubus fruticosus line drawing with focus on the blossom and berries

Blackthorn or Sloe Prunus spinosa, one sprig in blossom and the other bearing fruit

Sketchbook study of the blackberry, focusing on the ripe and un ripe berries

Black hairstreak butterfly Satyrium pruni showing brown underwing and perched on a flowering bramble Rubus species

Speckled Wood butterfly Pararge aegeria cut to white