seeds

Red tailed bumblebee Bombus lapidarius with Cornflower Centaurea cyanus.  Second version of this seed packet design

Oxeye daisy Leucanthemum vulgare & buff-tailed bumblebee Bombus terrestris

Cornflowers Centaurea cyanus in a meadow with Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius

Garden scene designed for use on seed packet for wild flowers.

Comparison of Beak use in Darwin’s Finches.  Stippled illustration showing singing, feeding, and preening.

Beak comparison in Darwin’s finches showing use feeding, singing, and preening.  Line drawing.

Darwins Finch Geospiza magnirostris with Tribulus seed.  Stippled illustration showing beak adaptability.

Darwin’s Finch Geospiza magnirostris with Tribulus seed (line drawing)

Monocot seedling showing seed, emergent leaves, and root

Eudicot seedling showing paired cotyledon leaves, seed, and root.

Eudicot and monocot seedling comparison showing cotyledon leaves on the eudicot and furled parallel-veined leaves of the monocot.

Himalayan Blackberry Rubus armeniacus.  Sketchbook illustration shows flower, flower cross section, leaf shape and underside, stem, seed, early fruit and seed detail

White mustard Sinapis alba showing plant with leaves, flowers, and seed pods

Fruit of the fig tree and a half fig

Fig tree showing palmate leaves and growth form

Japanese Knotweed Fallopia japonica plant including roots underground

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

Hornbeam Carpinus betulus with flower and a cluster of seed catkins

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

Yew Taxus baccata sprig and detail of lone berry

Wych elm Ulmus glabra with fruit, flower, and leaves on twig