Her flower painting are assured,delicate, precise and immaculate, with glowing colour tones.

Dr Shirley Sherwood, Author and Collector of Botanical Art

One of the best observers of fruit at the present day.

Dr Brent Elliot RHS Librarian and Archivist

This is the area in which she excels and achieves artistic brilliance and pomological accuracy with such felicitous results

Dr Joan Morgan, Chairman of the RHS Fruit Trials Committee

Horse Chestnut - Aesculus hippocastanum

Widely planted on European estates, this magnificent tree is also found in town squares and streets, and often planted as avenues. The emerging shoots are covered in wooly bown hairs, and the large sticky buds are especially eye catching. The flower spikes are composed of up to ninety flowers, borne upright, and of an attractive pink and yellow colour. In Autumn the huge palmate leaves colour beautifully, followed by shiny brown conkers encased in spiny green shells.