Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Goldfinch’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

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Red dead-nettle and Groundsel for todays offering, not much else apart from gorse in flower at the moment. #Wildflowerhour

‘Footprints in the snow’ What to look for in Winter, 1959 Artist: CFTunnicliffe

Other work of the Ladybird artists ‘Thaw’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

‘At the edge of the mere’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Winter, 1959)

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Winter Landscape’ Artist: Rowland Hilder

Robin Uncle Mac’s ABC (1950) Artist: Septimus Scott

Gorse flowering under a blanket of snow, always in flower! #Wildflowerhour

Pictures that explain things. Trees in Winter (back endpapers) Artist: SR Badmin, 1963

Hawthorn - a little confused about the season it seems. #Wildflowerhour

Teasel at sunset with a dusting of snow and ice.

“To the left of the stile a hawthorn tree, bent by the prevailing wind, has a rich harvest of berries”. Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson

Other work of the Ladybird artists. Winter scene Artist: SR Badmin

Before it was all on our phones “If we want to know if it is going to rain or whether the rain is likely to stop, we look up at the clouds” Artist: Robert Ayton The Weather (1962)

‘January’ (Shell Guide, Flowers of the Countryside, 1955) Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder

Common Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale a welcome ray of sunshine in the midst of winter. #Wildflowerhour

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Gusty Twilight’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

“Hedge-banks and ditches are russet with the browns and yellows of the dead bracken fronds. The distant trees show mistily in the winter air” Writer: EL GrantWatson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Ladybird Nature Corner. Yellowhammer Artist: Allen Seaby

Velvet shank - Flammulina velutipes growing on a gorse stem in a newly cleared area of scrub. #Fungi #Fungifriday

“In the holly tree, which is rich with red berries, fieldfares, redwings, and mistle-thrushes are busy feeding” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Winter, 1959)

Mistletoe - Viscum album growing on an apple tree and glowing in the afternoon sun 🌞. #Mistletoe #Wildflowerhour

Hairy curtain crust and Turkey tail fruiting well on an old oak log #Fungi

'Stag in the birches' by printmaker Celia Lewis #WomensArt ❄️

Red dead-nettle laden with dew on a cloudy solstice morning. #Wildflowerhour

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 21 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Winter, 1959)

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 17 ‘Winter Pastoral’ Artist: SR Badmin

'Winter hares in conversation' by UK contemporary printmaker Angela Harding #WomensArt #ArtAdvent

Hazel - Corylus avellana, just one or two specimens in flower this afternoon between the showers, I usually don’t see catkins in flower this side of Christmas here but the weather has been very mild of late #Wildflowerhour

Other work of the Ladybird artists Redwings in Winter Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Bush vetch - Vicia sepium still flowering in the copse where the mower missed earlier in the year. #Wildflowerhour

Wild strawberry-Fragaria vesca just about the only wildflower I spotted today after the frosts. #Wildflowerhour

“Autumn, with its heavy rains, has filled the pond to the brim, and has flooded the track to the farm.” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson

Common oak galls en masse laying on the woodland floor.

“Across this cloud-dappled sky skeins of wild geese are flying” (What to Look for in Autumn, 1960) Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Energy of Starlings - by Somerset artist and printmaker, Jackie Curtis More of Jackie's fabulous artwork, here: www.jcurtisart.com

First bird of my day: a pair of Buzzards perched on the telephone poles overlooking the fields on a frosty morning. #Firstbirdofmyday

“The beech is one of our largest and most beautiful forest trees” (Trees, 1963) Artist: SR Badmin

Hogweed and bramble still flowering in mid November and even a few ripe blackberries still hanging on. #Wildflowerhour

“On a willow twig a kingfisher perches. It watches the eels with interest, but these are well-grown and too big for him to catch” ‘What to Look for in Autumn’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson

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Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘November on the Dorset Coast’ Whitbread calendar 1971 Artist: SR Badmin

Other work of the Ladybird artists. The Beech Wood Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Wild carrot and White dead-nettle shining bright on the dull days. #wildflowerhour

'Nature's bounty' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Bays #WomensArt

“Among the fallen beech leaves” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)

Other work by the Ladybird artists Red Squirrel Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

“A tawny owl is looking down from its high vantage point at the great bonfire” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson

Oxeye daisy and Wild strawberry back in flower after the August cut and lots of rain and mild weather. #Wildflowerhour