Researching a wildflower
Researching a wildflower involves gathering information on the anatomy, distinguishing characteristics, family, and [...]
Common Grass species identification: Some easy shortcuts
As you may have noticed, I’m rather obsessed with grasses, and have blogged [...]
Illustrating the Cannock Chase Berry Vaccinium intermedium
Cannock Chase Berry Vaccinium x intermedium is a really tricky subject to illustrate, [...]
Bird’s-foot Trefoil: An Excellent Plant
Bird’s-foot Trefoil: Where to find it? This blog is in praise of [...]
Monocot and Eudicot variety: Illustrations
Monocots and Eudicots are enormous groups, making up over 80% of plants on [...]
Sedges, Grasses and Rushes: Telling the families apart
I recently went on another excellent FSC course, this time on identifying grasses [...]
Geraniums, Crane’s-bills and Stork’s-bills
Geraniums, Crane’s-bills and Stork’s-bills is a guest blog from the wonderful Stewart Roberts, a [...]
Cow Parsley: All about an Umbellifer
Cow parsley Anthriscus sylvestris was on the list of plants I recently illustrated [...]
Comparing Periwinkle Species
Periwinkle species feature on the list of a recent job of invasive plants [...]
Comparing Common and Japanese Hops
A recent job involved highlighting differences between the Japanese hop Humulus japonicus, and the [...]
Comparing Hogweed Heracleum Species
A recent job involved trying to show the differences between two species of [...]
Comparing Goldenrod Species
Comparing Goldenrod species was one of my tasks in a recent commission for [...]
Garden Lupin Sketchbook study
The Garden Lupin, Lupinus polyphyllus, is one of the invasive plants I was [...]
Invasive & Japanese Knotweeds: Telling species apart
Invasive and Japanese knotweeds are incredibly successful plants. Originally from Japan, China and [...]
What’s the difference between Virginia creeper and False Virginia creeper?
Virginia creeper Parthenocissus quinquefolia and False Virginia creeper Parthenocissus inserta are common and [...]
Telling Gunnera species apart
Gunnera is an extraordinary looking plant. With its gigantic leaves, and ability to [...]
Telling Cotoneasters apart
My recent botanical illustration work for a Field Studies Chart (as yet unpublished) on Invasive [...]