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Meadow Buttercup Ranunculus acris with Sleepy carpenter bee Chelostoma florisomne and Red Mason bee Osmia bicornis. Seed packet design for Roselyn Seeds

Red-tailed bumblebee Bombus lapidarius worker showing orange abdominal segments

Rose chafer beetle, cut to white.  Common iridescent garden visitor

Garden bumblebee cut to white showing markings and shaggy long hair

Bird’s foot trefoil Lotus corniculatus with seed pod and individual flower and calyx

Pollinators bee ant hoverfly on Japanese knotweed Fallopia japonica

Heather Calluna vulgaris pen and ink line drawing with details of the shoot and individual flower

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

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

Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum in flower, flushed pink, with detail of the shiny red berries

Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum plant with flower and red berries and elephant hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor visiting the flower with proboscis outstretched

Heather Calluna vulgaris sprig

Field scabious Knautia arvensis with several flowers

Field scabious Knautia arvensis with both leaf shapes shown

Creeping Thistle Cirsium arvense showing basal rosette and several thistle flowers

Common heather Calluna vulgaris with individual leaf, stem cross section, and flwoer detail and also showing the woody stem

Bird’s foot trefoil Lotus corniculatus with yellow flowers face on and in profile

Blackberry Rubus fruticosa showing flowers, ripe and unripe fruit, and a leaflet

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