Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
The forget-me-not is a British native wildflower that is also popular in gardens, often mixing well in borders with tulips as it flowers through the same period from late March, through April into early May. The evocative name comes from the legend of a romantic tragedy.
The attractive fishing port of Whitby is a favoured destination amongst members of the Goth subculture due to its connections with Bram Stoker's "Dracula" novel. Once there, they may find some suitably sombre items of jewellery - as Whitby is also famous for its jet gemstones.
Dating from 1185, the Temple Church in central London was once the English headquarters of the legendary Knights Templar, and the site of their mysterious initiation ceremonies. Since the downfall of the Templars in 1307, it has been regarded as the church of the legal profession, whose offices are concentrated in the surrounding area.
Most people can tell the difference between honey bees and bumble bees, but perhaps fewer people are aware of how varied bees in Britain can be. Sometimes that slightly annoying little fly on your plant photos is actually a tiny bee!
The semi-tropical Abbey Gardens, located on the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly, benefit from the warm flow of the Gulf stream, being set in the Atlantic 45km (28 miles) from Land's End. The 17-acre gardens were established by the nineteenth-century proprietor of the islands, Augustus Smith, around the ruins of a Benedictine Abbey.
The grey seal is the larger of the two UK seal species, and are particularly abundant around the coasts of the Outer Hebrides and the Orkney Islands in Scotland.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.