Diane McAllister / Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus), Bachelor buttons / Cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus), and Common poppies (Papaver rhoeas) in a small meadow. Nevada, USA, July

Michel Poinsignon / Wind turbine with oil seed rape flowers in the foreground, Sarre, Germany

Mark MacEwen / Hanuman Langurs (Semnopithecus entellus) in floweing Bougainvillea Mandore Garden, Jodhpur, India.

Alex Hyde / Spring Gentian (Gentiana verna) floweing on mountainside in Aosta Valley, Monte Rosa Massif, Pennine Alps, Italy. July.

Alex Hyde / Spring Gentian (Gentiana verna) floweing on mountainside in Aosta Valley, Monte Rosa Massif, Pennine Alps, Italy. July.

Nigel Cattlin / Young flowering plant of hairy bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta) annual arable garden weed