ALT A collage of six photographs of flowers comprising: small white funnel shaped flowers with a black & orange striped bumble bee & black & yellow striped hover fly feeding from them; a Perennial Cornflower with delicate long blue petals radiating out from a pink & black centre; a mass of rosette like red petalled Roses; a cluster of rounded peach petalled Roses; a mass of rounded red-pink Rock Rose flowers with yellow centres; three pale pink Astrantia flowers made up of narrow pointed petals at the base of a dark pink dome-like centre made of up of tiny flowers on fine stems.

ALT Nine-panel collage of June garden flowers. Clockwise from top left: a pink peony with golden stamens, a cluster of white ox-eye daisies, an apricot rose, violet-blue hardy geraniums, a close-up of pale pink astrantia, pink carnations, a white peony with blush-pink outer petals, a soft pink rose, and a drift of pale pink astrantia among purple salvia spikes. All are photographed against fresh green summer foliage.

ALT Collage of nine rose photographs arranged in a three-by-three grid. The roses range from deep crimson and scarlet to golden yellow and pure white. Some are fully double and richly layered, while others are simpler, open blooms revealing golden stamens. Fresh green foliage forms a soft background, highlighting the contrasting colours associated with the legend of Venus’s blood, tears and the setting sun.