For the spring picture (top left-hand corner), I used some small wild clematis leaves, tendrils of old man's beard, snowdrops, sprays of forget-me-not flowers, red and white hawthorn flowers and some Alchemilla alpina leaves.

There are two stories: A wild clematis, viticella, found growing in Spain, was brought back to England during the reign of Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen.

The fluttering stopped and there was something else down there with her at the bottom of the field where the dead elms stood, their roots a mass of underbrush, of brambles and nettles and fuzzy wild clematis.

The wispy lines of one of her most popular prints of the mid-Seventies, wild clematis, were ideally suited to this reversing treatment.

A sign on the gate post was overgrown with tendrils of wild clematis.

Mist hung in the valleys and above the river, silvering spiders' webs and the tendrils of wild clematis.

It was rich with lupin, honeysuckle, campions, and ragged-robin; bed straw, hops, and wild clematis twined and hung among its branches, and all along its ditch border the starry stitchwort lifted its childish faces, and chorused in lines and masses.

In the warm months, the salt air mixes with the perfume of flowers that bloom in almost every yard - lavender, wild clematis, blue sage and roses.

The swift growth of the wild with briar and eglantine and trailing clematis was already drawing a veil over this place of dreadful feast and slaughter; but it was not ancient.