Verbena, Brazilian verbena, Verbena Bonariensis, With a cabbage white butterfly.-

Verbena, Brazilian verbena, Purple top, Verbena bonariensis in front of a wall of stacked cut logs. Part of Wild in the City garden designed by Charlotte Murrell, Hampton Court flower show 2011.

Verbena, Brazilian verbena, Purple top, Verbena bonariensis, with Veronicastrum, Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' and Gaura, all tall plants in a late summer prairie style planted mixed bord...

Verbena, Brazilian verbena, Verbena bonariensis skeleton covered with snow.

Yarrow, Achillea millefolium 'Pretty Belinda, Close view of the mass of tiny pink flowers that make up each flowerhead.

Brazilian Verbena, Verbena bonariensis, with a Painted Lady butterfly.

Brazilian Verbena, Verbena bonariensis with a Painted Lady butterfly, backlit.

Brazilian Verbena, Verbena bonariensis with a Painted Lady butterfly, backlit.

Anemone 'Wild Swan' close view from side showing stamen and grey-blue streak on the underside of the white petals.

Brazilian verbena, Verbena bonariensis, a mass of transparent stalks interspersed with Golden oats, Stipa gigantea.

Salad.

Forsythia.

Spurge, Sikkim Spurge, Euphorbia sikkimensis, A mass of bright red new shoots emerging in the spring.

Black false hellebore, Veratrum nigrum, A group of new shoots and leaves emerging in the spring.

Tradescantia, Purple Tradescantia, Tradescantia 'Purple sabre', One mauve pink flower seen from above, with some leaves sharp focus against soft focus foliage behind.

Mallow, Lavatera 'Barnsley', Close view of one front facing open flower with pale pink petals with deep pink where they meet the pink protruding stigma and white stamen.

Tree mallow, Lavatera x clementii 'Rosea', One unfurling flower, its pink petals twisted around each other. Accompanied by a single leaf.

Yellow flag iris, Iris pseudacorus, Brown seed pod spliting open to reveal disc shaped seeds packed inside.

Iceland poppy, Papaver nudicaule 'Champagne Bubbles', Close side view of the crinkled red petals of a flower emerging from the sheath that protected it as a bud, fine hairs visible along the stem.

Iceland poppy, Papaver nudicaule 'Champagne Bubbles', Close side view of the crinkled red petals of a flower emerging from the sheath that protected it as a bud, fine hairs visible along the stem.

Iceland poppy, Papaver nudicaule 'Champagne Bubbles', Close side view of the crinkled red petals of a flower emerging from the sheath that protected it as a bud, fine hairs visible along the stem.

Iceland poppy, Papaver nudicaule 'Champagne Bubbles', Close side view of the crinkled red petals of a flower emerging from the sheath that protected it as a bud, fine hairs visible along the stem.

Allium, Butterfly on an emerging from bud.

LKwaslelie, Boophone haemanthoides, leaves emerging from the bulb making graphic shapes.