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.

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.