springtime

Sprig of this iconic spring plant with pussy willow catkins coming into flower. Catkins appear before leaves emerge.

Monocot plant variety with seedling.  Plants shown are: Soft-leaved or Mountain sedge Carex montan, Meadow saffron Colchium autumnale, Fragrant orchid Gymnadenia conopsed, Bluebell Hyacinthoides non-scripta, Wood rush Luzula sylvatica, and Sweet vernal grass Anthoxanthum odoratum

Monocot plant variety featuring numerous monocots such as rush, grass, bluebell, sedge, and crocus.

Cuckooflower or Lady’s-smock Cardamine pratensis showing basal rosette, flowers, and young silique seed pods.

Bluebell sketch Hyacinthoides non-scripta showing blue flowers and strap-like leaves

Plum Prunus domestica line drawing with detail of half fruit and plum blossom

Primrose Primula vulgaris plant showing pale underside and darker top of leaves

Cherry Prunus avium pen and ink botanical illustration.

Daisy Bellis perennis pen and ink illustration with details of the ray and disc florets

Wood forget-me-not Myosotis sylvtica with pink buds and blue flowers, and showing the hairy leaves

Wild Plum Prunus domestica fruit and blossom

Wild daffodil Narcissus pseudonarcissus straight on and in side view

Violet Viola riviniana plant

Primrose Primula vulgaris

Oxlip Primula elatior

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

Forget me not Myosotis plant

Forget me not Myosotis flowers with leaves

Damson fruit Prunus domestica individual lone fruit

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