The Beauty in nature textures and patterns

These are a collation of images that I have taken of nature that have inspired some of my concepts. 

A mushroom patch growing out of a rotten tree.

Pilea peperomioides in the Eden project Mediterranean dome

Striking bamboo showing the impact of structural plants in landscape 

Fine trailing leaves 

A Hosta with huge leaves, this would be beautiful as a backdrop to a small textured plant. 

Wood grain of a fence post

Beta vulgaris - a Chard plant 

                                            Teasel Dipsacus fullonum

Lines of Quartz through a rock in Snowdonia 

Cacti 

a section of a tree, showing the rings and layers 

climbers across a wall and fence