A good thing

Tulip spring

Leafy ladybird love

Cowslip (Primula veris) and its hybrid with primroses (Primula vulgaris), the False Oxlip (Primula veris x vulgaris - what a surprise! - or P. x polyantha).

Capertillar!

April 2020

April 2020

Water Boatman (greater) | Notonecta glauca

Oh to be a chicken in a field of corn. Mar, 2020.

Cacti and their spiky differences. I love all the textures in my plants, even Stan in the middle there whose spikes are so fine they are indistinguishable from my arm hairs - which makes pulling them out fun if I’ve brushed him when leaning over to water the ferns...

Piglets in the sun. Mar, 2020.

Water droplet in a lupin leaf! Each almost-circle of leaves is actually one palmate leaf! Palmate means a leaf that is divided from a central point (palm- coming from the palm of your hand), with lobes or leaflets radiating out. The classic palmate is a sycamore or maple leaf, with five lobes. These lupin leaves have defined leaflets that are covered in very soft hairs!

Sheep sheep baa baa. Mar, 2020.

Red dead-nettles being pretty at the roadside. Mar, 2019

Anemone, April 2019

Orange-eyed fuzzcat, Jun 2019

Bun, Apr 2019

Crocuses, Feb 2019