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I've been taking photographs of plants in and around my garden since I bought my first digital camera in 2001 (three years after I has started this website). So whilst wondering where to keep the pictures in the days before Flickr and cloud storage, I thought I'd create a little database of them on my UK Gardening website, and I've been taking photos and adding them to my site ever since.

Below is a very small, random selection of photographs I have taken over the last 26 years. To see a larger version of a photograph, click the image. You'll then be able to scroll left and right through the current selection.

Camellia japonica with frost damage

Lunaria annua (Honesty, English honesty)

Agapanthus africanus (African lily) dried seed heads, about to drop their seeds

Arum maculatum (cuckoo pint, cuckoo-pint, jack-in-the-pulpit, lords and ladies). The berries are produced in summer, turning orangey-red in late-summer, early autumn.

Belted hoverfly Volucella zonaria. One of the largest flies of Britain. It mimics a hornet or wasp, but is harmless to humans. The adults are great polinators and their larvae are believed to eat wasp grubs.

Belted hoverfly Volucella zonaria

Lilioceris lilii (lily beetle, scarlet lily beetle, red lily beetle) including damage to the lily leaves.

Anemone coronaria 'The Bride' syn. 'Die Braut'

Camellia japonica 'Gloire de Nantes'

Salix caprea Goat willow, pussy willow, great sallow (male catkins)

Salix caprea Goat willow, pussy willow, great sallow (female catkins)

Salix caprea Goat willow, pussy willow, great sallow (male catkins)

Ulex europaeus (Common gorse)

Primula, polyanthus

Pinus sylvestris (Scots pine)

Pyracantha 'Orange Glow' AGM (Firethorn)

Gerbera

Large rose sawfly (Arge pagana) larva

Clematis montana Anemone clematis

Dicentra spectabilis (Bleeding heart, Dutchman's trousers)

Red admiral on Sedum spectabile syn. Hylotelephium spectabile (ice plant, stonecrop)

Anemone coronaria 'The Bride' syn. 'Die Braut'

Glandora prostrata 'Heavenly Blue' syn. Lithodora diffusa 'Heavenly Blue' Lithospermum diffusum 'Heavenly Blue', Lithospermum 'Heavenly Blue'

Mushroom

Pulmonaria officinalis - Common lungwort, spotted dog, soldiers and sailors, Jerusalem cowslip

Helleborus orientalis (Christmas rose, Lentern rose, Hellebore)

Blue tits feeding in winter snow

Song thrush sitting on vibunum in the snow

Osteospermum 'Glistening White' syn. Dimorphotheca pluvialis (Cape marigold, Cape daisy, Rain daisy, African daisy) with hover fly

Flesh fly Sarcophaga nodosa

Chrysolina americana (rosemary beetle) on lavender flower stem

Pentatoma rufipes (forest bug, stink bug, shield bug) on a lavender flower stem

Tropaeolum (Nasturtium)

Blue tit on feeding station

Ilex aquifolium 'Argentea Marginata' AGM (silver-margined holly, variegated holly)

Sedum spectabile syn. Hylotelephium spectabile (ice plant, stonecrop)

Eupeodes corollae syn. Metasyrphus corollae (Hoverfly). Whilst it may look like a wasp, it is actually a hoverfly.

Ismene x fetalis (Peruvian daffodil, spider lily)

Ismene x fetalis (Peruvian daffodil, spider lily)

Sarracenia (North American pitcher plant)

Heuchera

Eryngium giganteum (Miss Wilmott's ghost)

Frozen shrub

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