David

Cultivated ornamental species.

A tractor adds colour to this view of the tower and spire of Worfield church emerging from the surrounding trees.

They look almost good enough to eat: supposedly this is possible once they have been cooked to break down an unpleasant alkaloid they contain. I haven’t tried it.

This bee was one of many insects attracted to the gorse bush in the Dutch Garden at Bantock Park on a warm midday.

As I was out early one morning I came across a bush where it seemed that every other leaf had a different snail feeding on it.

The warm weather at the end of May brought on the flowers – and the insects which feed on them.

A hawthorn hedge was covered with flowers, which were attracting a crowd of honey bees.

The bees had already gathered so much nectar that it looked like they would be overloaded for take-off.

The hawthorn nectar (in the combs on their back legs) is a pale straw colour.