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Common Sea lavender Limonium vulgare with individual flower, and anther attachment to petal

Common Scurvy-grass Cochlearia officinalis showing distinctive basal rosette

Common Restharrow Ononis repens showing its sprawlign habit and pink flowers

Common Glasswort Salicornia europaea showing the platn and a close up of the tiny petal free flower

Common Cord Grass Spartina anglica showing grass, flowering spike, rhizome, and characteristic growth pattern

Common centaury Centaurium erythraea showing plant with basal rosette and detail of individual flower

Bucks horn plantain Plantago maritima showing plant and an individual flower

Sea spurge Euphorbia paralias botanical illustration by Lizzie Harper showing flowering and non flowering shoot and individual flower

common cockle Cerastoderma edule pair of shells from one animal, cut to white

Garden snail Helix aspera with grey body and yellow and brown shell cut to white

Giant pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis cut to white

Nautilus pompilius pen and ink stippled illustration

Topshell sketch in colour cut to whtie

Garden snail Helix aspera line drawing in pen and ink cut to white

Coral cross section pen and ink monochrome illustration including a scene of a coral reef with a detailed close up of the internal organs of a typical coral polyp

Diatom group showing diverse shapes and colours of these organisms

Grayling butterfly Hipparchia semele

Vipers Bugloss Echium vulgare flowering spike

Seaside centuary Centaurium littorale growing on a dune

Biting stonecrop Sedum acre sprig with two flowering spikes and a few vegetative ones

Sand lizard Lacerta agilis

Bactrian camel showing shaggy coat and two humps with its distinctive splayed hooves.

European Rockpool diagram showing lots of shoreline crustaceans, bivalves, anenomes, and gastropods, sea weeds, and background

Mixing tiny seeds in with some sand so you don’t lose the seeds and can see where you have sowed or broadcast them on the soil