pollinators

Greater Bird’s-foot trefoil Lotus pendunculatus or Lotus uliginosus with calyx detail

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.

Butterfly bush Buddleja davidii sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Giant Goldenrod Solidago gigantea sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Completed for Butterfly Conservation.  The plant shows flowers and seed pods.

Welsh meadow landscape with Redstart, buzzard, swallows and lots of butterflies (Gilfach Nature reserve).  Numerous animal species illustrated include swallows, hoverfly, grasshopper, and bees.  Flowers include knapweed, thistles, buttercup, bedstraws, betony, sedges, and other riverside meadow plants.

Orange Citrus sinensis fruit and half fruit with one leaf

Orange Citrus sinensis tree in fruit showing typical growth habit

Wild marjoram Origanum vulgare pen and ink botanical illustration

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

Japanese Knotweed Fallopia japonica plant including roots underground

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

Pollinators bee ant hoverfly on Japanese knotweed Fallopia japonica

Japanese Knotweed Fallopia japonica Sketchbook study

Japanese knotweed Fallopia japonica root crown with cross section of root and detail of pink growing tips

Sketchbook study of a red Bee balm, or Wild bergamot; focusing on the flowers.

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

Yellow loosestrife Lysimachia vulgaris pencil drawing

Wood forget-me-not Myosotis sylvtica with pink buds and blue flowers, and showing the hairy leaves

Wild marjoram Origanum vulgare sprig

Wild carrot Daucus carota with leaves, flowering head, and distinctive growth habit

White clover Trifolium repens showing rooting nodes and pale chevrons on the leaves

Tubular water dropwort Oenanthe fistulosa in amongst grasses with flowering head and seed head, and showing the stem swelling as well as leaves

Sunflower Helianthus annuus close up of one flwoer