Includes:

• A wide range of vegetables, and many fruit and herbs, photographed as in situ plant portraits and as still life (good for cut-outs).
• Named vegetable varieties.
• Crops portrayed at all growth stages, from sowing and germination to ripening and harvest.
• Unusual varieties of common vegetables, such as coloured carrots and radishes grown for their pods.
• Unfamiliar and tropical vegetables, including those that are typical of ethnic cuisines, like water spinach, bitter gourds and lotus root.
• Other aspects associated with horticultural production, such as erecting and cladding polythene tunnels, land preparation, harvesting and ‘how-to’ techniques.

Sea Spring Farm
Sea Spring Farm is the home base of Sea Spring Photos. It acts as an outdoor photo studio where crops are purpose grown for photographing. Records are kept of all varieties grown, and full management details can be supplied with submitted photographs if requested.

Organic systems
All commercial horticultural holdings visited for photographing are certified organic. Thus, the library contains a wide range of organic images, all of which are supplied with the holdings’ organic registration number.

Home gardening
Home vegetable production and allotments are well represented in the Sea Spring Photos collection.

Ethnic vegetables
A wide range of unusual, unfamiliar and tropical vegetables are an important part of the Sea Spring Photos collection. Many are in still life, but an increasing number are now also shown as growing plants.

For ornamental species and gardens see www.andrewlawson.com