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.
Potato Solanum tuberosum with tubers below soil
Potato Plant in flower with potatoes growing below the soil. Plant has grown from a chitted potato.
Carbon cycle based around a tree, fully annotated
Illustration showing annotated carbon cycle including images of leaf litter detritovores, soil micro-organisms, root tips, and the importance of respiration and photosynthesis For more on this illustration, check out my blog
Carbon cycle centred around a tree
Illustration of the Carbon cycle, with all the elements and chemicals involved in the cycle (but omitting arrows and english text). For more on this illustration, check out my blog
Lilac Hedgerow encouraging wildlife
Hedgerows encourage birds, mammals, and insects and are easy to integrate into a garden. this Swedish garden scene shows this priniciple.
Non environmentally and nature friendly garden
Illustrations showing a garden with closely cropped grass, a lot of hard surfaces, few trees and shrubs, and non-native annuals which don’t support pollinators. For more please check out my blog and the associated blog, on how to take steps to having an ideal garden.
Carbon cycle: Beech tree with roots, leaf litter, and fungal hyphae
Used as the basis for a diagram showing the Carbon cycle. For more on this illustration, check out my blog
Potatoes in sack
Potatoes in sack shows a batch of newly dug potatoes in a hessian sack, with some rolling out.
Potato varieties
Potato varieries and one green potato about to sprout
Potato Solanum tuberosum sketchbook page
Sketchbook study of the Potato showing different varieties, flower colours, the fruit, and how to chit potatoes. With written notes.
Potato Food Products
Potato Food Products: Chips or French fries, sliced, boiled, baked potatoes, potato chips or crisps
Black Oil beetle Meloe proscarabaeus
Black oil beetle Meloe proscarabaeus showing distinctive abdominal shape and antennae.
Spotted flycatcher Muscicapa striata
Spotted flycatcher Muscicapa striata perched on a gravestone, eating a beetle. Completed for Cusop Churchyard nature panel.
Wasps and bees hibernating in cracks in an old wall
Wasps and bees hibernating in cracks in an old wall, showing common UK bee and social wasp species in the mortar of a church wall
Redwing Turdus iliacus
Redwing Turdus iliacus perched on a branch, with a berry in its beak
Fountain Grass Pennisetum setaceum
Fountain Grass Pennisetum setaceum sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant
Spotted hyena Crocuta crocuta
Spotted hyena Crocuta crocuta with leg bone of giraffe
Anting Green woodpecker Picus viridis
Green woodpecker Picus viridis anting for parasite removal
Feeding Greater Spotted woodpecker Dendrocopos major
Greater Spotted woodpecker Dendrocopos major seeking food. Using its beak to pry under areas of bark, the woodpecker looks for small insects.
Digestive system of bird
Digestive system of bird using domestic chicken, in diagram format, with close up of gizzard
Bighorn sheep Ovis canadensis
Bighorn sheep Ovis canadensis fighting, using his horns to charge at a mating rival.
Comparison of Beak use in Darwin’s Finches
Comparison of Beak use in Darwin’s Finches. Stippled illustration showing singing, feeding, and preening.
Beak comparison in Darwin’s finches
Beak comparison in Darwin’s finches showing use feeding, singing, and preening. Line drawing.
Singing Darwins Finch Geospiza fuliginosa
Singing Darwin’s Finch Geospiza fulginosa showing beak in use.