spring

Violet Viola riviniana plant

Primrose Primula vulgaris

Oxlip Primula elatior

Marsh marigold Caltha palustris flowers with bud and round leaves

Marsh marigold Caltha palustris with roots and flowers, buds and fruit shown

Lesser celendine Ficaria verna with yellow flowers and bulbous root appendages

Iris in gravel with blue petals

Garden border in spring with tulips, crocus, daffodils and daisies abutting a carefully tended lawn and edged with concrete slabs

Gentian gentiana acaulis individual flower and basal rosette of leaves

Forget me not Myosotis plant

Forget me not Myosotis flowers with leaves

Early dog violet Viola reichenbachiana with several flowers, and opne seed pod, and showing the basal growth

Dogs Mercury Mercurialis perennis with leaves and flowers on spikes being held in the distinctive presentation

Daisies and Violets clump shoing flowers and leaves from both species

Cowslip Primula veris with pale underside of the leaf obvious and the drooping flowering head with buds and yellow flowers

Cowslip Primula veris with pale underside of the leaf obvious and the drooping flowering head with buds and yellow flowers

Bluebell Hyacinthoides non-scripta in a patch of grass and the flowers colouring the stem of the plant

Bluebell Hyacinthoides non-scripta Pencil illustration with three flowers and floppy leaves showing paralell veins

Iris in gravel with blue petals

Garden border in spring with tulips, crocus, daffodils and daisies abutting a carefully tended lawn and edged with concrete slabs

Forget me not Myosotis sketchbook study concentrating on the blue flowers and details of how these are carried in relation to the seed pods, an accompanying sprig is shown in detailed pencil

Cow parsley illustration in pencil with details of stem, leaves and flowering head picked out in watercolour, and with a small view of the plant grwing at a distance, close up study of the individual flower and its anatomy

Landscape showing an ancient oak woodland with oak trees which were last pollarded years ago, the under storey is carpeted with bluebells, the trees are hung with lichen, and there are moths in the foreground settled on a patch of wild spring flowers

Vertebrate embryos comparing growth forms in chart form