roots

Sessile Oak tree Quercus petraea showing habit and twisted branches

Potato Plant in flower with potatoes growing below the soil.  Plant has grown from a chitted potato.

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

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

Root Tip Diagram showing root cap cells and root hairs for absorption and surrounding soil particles

Potatoes in sack shows a batch of newly dug potatoes in a hessian sack, with some rolling out.

Potato varieries and one green potato about to sprout

Sketchbook study of the Potato showing different varieties, flower colours, the fruit, and how to chit potatoes.  With written notes.

Potato Food Products: Chips or French fries, sliced, boiled, baked potatoes, potato chips or crisps

Bracken Pteridium aquilinum showing leaf fronds, roots, and inrolled leaf margins with sori

Wild Parsnip Pastinaca sativa sketchbook study.  Illustration shows comparison with the cultivated parsnip plant, Pastinaca sativa sativa.  It also includes details on the petiole, flower, umbel, seed head, seeds, and root.

Japanese Knotweed Fallopia japonica showing subterranean roots

Rough meadow grass Poa trivialis botanical illustration

Colour diagram of the process of transpiration, showing how plants access water from their roots and bring it up to the leaves

Sweet vernal grass Anthoxum odoratum botanical illustration with details of spikelet and ligule

Soft brome Bromus hordeaceus grass showing growth habit and botanical details of spikelet and ligule

Japanese Knotweed Fallopia japonica plant including roots underground

Pignut Conopodium majus with details of flower, root, and shoot

Pollinators bee ant hoverfly on Japanese knotweed Fallopia japonica

Japanese Knotweed Fallopia japonica Sketchbook study

Dandelion Taxacum officinale with details of seed and root

Cowslip Primula veris with dissections of thrum and pin flowers and flowering raceme and leaf painted in full

Borage borago officianalis sketchbook study with a focus on one leaf and the blue flower

Pen and ink illustration of a sprig of bilberry with lots of berries on