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Green alkanet Pentaglottis sempervirens with calyx detail Completed for FSC “Discover Wildflowers” fold out identification guide

Winter purslane Claytonia perfoliata pen and ink illustration

Sorrel Rumex acetosa pen and ink botanical illustration with detail of individual seed and distinctive leaf shape

Ground ivy Glechoma hederacea pen and ink line drawing with detail of oen flower

Fat hen Chenopodium album pen and ink illustration with detail of one flower

Chicory Cichorium intybus sketchbook study with a focus of the bright sky blue flower

Dandelion Taxacum officinale with details of seed and root

Cucumber plant drowing up a support showing tendrils, leaves, and young cucumber fruits and flowers alogn with companion planting of nasturtium

Wild garlic Allium ursinum leaf and flowering head with flowers out and in bud

Wild garlic Allium ursinum in flower, pencil

Watercress Nasturtium officinale with flower and seeds and edible leaves

Salad burnett Sanguisorba minor with detail of individual male and female flowers

Sheeps sorrel Rumex acetosella whole plant with flowers

Heath Bedstraw Galium saxatile showing lateral spreading growth and individual leaf detail. Fruits and flowers shown

Ground ivy Glechoma hederacea with roots

Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata with flowers and fruiting pods

Fennel Foeniculum vulgare pencil illustration showing the fennel and the highly branched leaves

Fat Hen Chenopodium album with pale underside of leaf showing along with green flowers

Dandelion Taraxacum officinale with root, flower, bud, and dandelion clock along with individual flower and individual seed detail

Cucumber Cucumis sativus pencil drawing showing three types of cucumber along with leaves, flower, and tendrils

Common Sorrel Rumex acetosa with pointed leaf base and flowers and fruit

Sketchbook study of the Exploding cucumber Cylantha explodens with lots of details of the fruit exploding and curling back on itself, and details of the knobbly brown seeds along with a detailed colour study of a few fruit with dark green leaves behind. Lots of details of the curling tendrils and some simple watercolour wash […]

Brownstone house with back yard full of a diverse array of containers all of which are growing different edible food crops from herbs to fruit thorugh salads and vegetables.

A hand pinching out the growth tips on a cucumber plant to encourage lateral growth and more cucmber fruit