The large scabious mining bee only collects pollen from field scabious flowers. Ms Larkin said: "We've also worked with some local nurseries to grow thousands of field scabious plug plants.

scabious and fringed pink have been combined to create Rhapsodia Petalorum Alpinorum (The Rhapsody of Alpine Petals), known as the 1931 Golden Thistle. Each of the flowers has been digitally rendered ...