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Yellow waterlily Nuphar luteum floating on water with developing “brandy bottle” seed flask

White & Yellow waterlily Nymphaea alba & Nuphar luteum comparison, shown in water.

Brass Buttons or Buttonweed  Cotula coronopifolia with habit sketch, detail of flowering head, and amplexicaul leaf details.  Seeds and seed distribution, along with the variety of leaf forms are also shown.

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

Linden or lime tree Tilia x europaea pen and ink line drawing with detail

Hawthorn Crataegus monogyna sketchbook study, with a focus on the berries or haws

Hawthorn Crataegus monogyna pen and ink botanical illustration with details of the berries (or haws), blossom, and individual leaf

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

Small pen and ink sketch with stippled texture and a watercolour top wash, cut to white

Earthworm coiled and curled up showing its saddle and segmentation clearly, cut to white

Worm against grassy background, looking like it should be under the ground rather than crawlign about on top of it

pen and ink stippled diagram of a worm with detail of the spines that help earthworms move

Earthworm coiled and curled up showing its saddle and segmentation clearly, cut to white

Common British Garden invertebrates including violet ground beetle, silver y moth, earth worm, worm, flesh fly, honey bee, ladybird, and small tortoiseshell butterfly with written annotations on each

Garden snail Helix aspera with grey body and yellow and brown shell cut to white

Garden snail Helix aspera line drawing in pen and ink cut to white

Wych elm Ulmus glabra with fruit, flower, and leaves on twig

Wild service tree Sorbus torminalis with white flowers and an autumn leaf with fruit

Water dock Rumex hydrolapathum pencil drawing

Watercress Nasturtium officinale with flower and seeds and edible leaves

Sweet flag Acorus calamus fruit growing from leaf, pencil

Pennywort Umbilicus rupestris showing round fleshy leaves and white flowers

Lesser Water Parsnip Berula erecta with individual flower and fruit

Lime Tilia europaea bark study