Mid Wales Road Trip: Part Two (Botanic Gardens)

It was on the sunniest day of our road trip that we stopped off at one of my favourite attractions in Wales, the National Botanic Gardens, just a short drive from the town of Carmarthen. I could happily spend all day here capturing all of the wonderful colours, textures and forms of the thousands of…

Her majesty the queen

A queen buff tailed bumblebee warms up on my buddleia bush after getting caught out in an earlier rain shower. She is a giant among our British bees, measuring around two centimetres long with distinctive mustard yellow stripes and a distinctive buff coloured tail which gives her species it’s name. Like her namesake the queen…