Love-in-a-mist, Nigella sativa, View of a mass of leaves.

Mushroom, Shaggy mushroom, Chlorophyllum rachodes, Side view showing scales on the cap and the ring on the stem.

Mushroom, Shaggy mushroom, Chlorophyllum rachodes, Side view showing scales on the cap and the ring on the stem.

Currant, Blackcurrant, Ribes nigrum, Ripe fruit on a bush.

Currant, Blackcurrant, Ribes nigrum, Ripe fruit on a bush.

Great desert spoon, Dasyliron achrotrichum, Dramatic spikey mass of silvery narrow leaves standing out against a dark background.

Hornbeam, Feather reed grass, Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster', Side view of a mass of flowering stems with a ladybird.

Blackberry, Rubus fruticosus 'Loch Tay', Berries in several stages of ripeness with leaves.

Asparagus, Asparagus officinalis, Several stems at different heights growing in gravel garden among flowers.

Hosta, Spring shoots of a mature plant sprouting up among cut off spent stems of the previous year.

Ferns overhanging a small pool or stream which is reflecting the blue sky above in its rippled surface.

Plantain, Ribwort plantain, Plantago lanceolata growing in a crack in concrete.

Lambs' ears, Stachys byzantina, Side view of several spires of this soft fluffy plant with silver foliage and buds and small pink purple flowers and bumblebee collecting nectar from a flower.

Lambs' ears, Stachys byzantina, Side view of several spires of this soft fluffy plant with silver foliage and buds and small pink purple flowers and three bumblebees collecting nectar from a flower.

Lambs' ears, Stachys byzantina, Side view of several spires of this soft fluffy plant with silver foliage and buds and small pink purple flowers and bumblebee collecting nectar from a flower.

Thyme, Mother of thyme, Thymus praecox, Close side view of some flowers rising above soft focus foliage with a bee collecting nectar from one flower.

Lambs' ears, Stachys byzantina, Close side view of one spire of this soft fluffy plant with silver foliage and buds and small pink purple flowers.

Lambs' ears, Stachys byzantina, Close side view of one spire of this soft fluffy plant with silver foliage and buds and small pink purple flowers.

Daffodil, Narcissus cultivar, Plant emerging through frosted leaves and dead foliage.

Fern, Ostrich fern, Shuttlecock fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, surrounded by Milk parsley, Selinum wallichianum, Back view of a single frond in focus, showing the dark spores.

Epimedium, Epimedium x versicolor 'Sulphureum', Winter frosted foliage with a heart shaped red leaf contrasting older dark red and green ones behind.

Epimedium, Epimedium x versicolor 'Sulphureum', Winter frosted foliage with a dark heart shaped red leaf contrasting older green ones behind.

Fern, Hart's tongue fern, Asplenium scolopendrium with shuttlecock fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris and others, unfurling in spring, in a garden with natural dry stone wall.

Honesty, Lunaria annua seedheads, with snow on them.