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.

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.