I called in on the exhibition on Ladybird Books at the Garden Museum. For some reason, I didn’t have them in my childhood, although now I see them, I clearly should have done, not just for the quality of the information about garden and wildflowers, but for their illustrations, including books on the Seasons, written by Elliot Lovegood Watson and illustrated by Charles Tunnicliffe RA:-

The Ladybird Book of Garden Flowers was illustrated by John Leigh-Pemberton:-