There were cool weeds, flowers, clover, dandelions.
Now I was on a dirt road; I stopped to move a dozing tortoise to a patch of flowering clover.
The beauty of raw-milk cheddar is that it can taste of flowers, clover, chocolate, pecans, loam, herbs, thistle and sweet onion; acolytes of raw cheese say pasteurization kills those flavors, along with healthful bacteria in the milk.
Farms thus provided flowering clover and flower-rich meadows, favouring bumblebees.
The insignia is framed by ears of wheat, each ear ending in flowers; clover on the left and flax on the right.
We examined whether addition of late-season flowering red clover affected worker, queen and male bumble bee densities.
Martin Randall, the site manager at the reserve, said: "The most important thing we've had to do to get this ready for the bees is to encourage wild flowers, like clovers and vetches.
Last week I held a short-haired bumblebee queen in my hand, stretched out my arm and watched as she clambered on to a red clover flower to take her first sip of wild, English nectar.
Instead of sending her a bouquet of roses, attach a small clover flower or wildflower that you picked yourself.
Making efforts to plant flowers, flowering plants, alfalfa, and clover in urban areas can make a big difference in urban biodiversity.
