Machairs (meadowlands behind the beaches) are sprinkled with wildflowers and make for fragrant picnics and camping.
Wildflowers grow among the grasses and butterflies flutter against the boom of distant artillery fire.
Wildflowers in Cumbria's hay meadows are "thriving", thanks to a restoration project by volunteers.
BBC: Cumbria wildflowers thrive after hay meadow restoration
The ground was then spread with green hay and meadow grasses before about 4, 000 wildflowers were planted.
BBC: Cumbria wildflowers thrive after hay meadow restoration
By harrowing the ground, they reduced the dominance of grasses and created germination sites for the wildflowers.
BBC: Cumbria wildflowers thrive after hay meadow restoration
Salamanders and wildflowers fade away, crowded out by invasive plants that are altering the soil they need to thrive.
With minimal noise pollution on the empty trails, it is even easier to hear the birdcalls and smell the fragrant, colourful wildflowers.
Finally, What the Wildflowers Tell Me is lifted from Mahler's Symphony No. 3.
Nature lovers will enjoy the plantings, inspired by the naturally growing grasses and wildflowers that sprouted up after trains stopped running in 1980.
He made a return visit to Gallipoli in later life and found a trench used by the Anzacs, now overgrown by wildflowers.
Along its length, high grasses, wildflowers and even trees sprang up, creating a nine metre-high streak of greenery in the Lower West Side.
Meadows filled with wildflowers nestle in with the forest and give the furry residents the perfect places to strike a pose for photographs.
The gravel-pit is very large and wide, with grass growing round the edges at the top, and dry stringy wildflowers, purple and yellow.
When spring limbers up and the first wildflowers start to bloom, bees get ready to suck up nectar and transform it into honey.
Wildflowers encouraged by a rare recent rain brilliant red buckeye and purple larkspur peppered acres of grass, still brown from the winter dry season.
The park has 4, 000 trees and 150, 000 perennial plants, including many golden wildflowers, which can be clearly seen scattered around canals and among the distinctive Games venues.
British wildflowers have been planted including cow slips and yellow rattle.
Visitors to the Olympics and Paralympics will have noted the wildflowers and waterways alongside huge works of art, which will now mingle with new housing, schools and office complexes.
In summer, fields of wildflowers and crystal-clear rivers are almost as intoxicating as the black diamond trails on Aspen Mountain or the hard-earned majesty of the Highland Bowl in winter.
Covering more than 6, 000sqm, the garden is awash in ferns, wildflowers and bushy undergrowth, while a tranquil pond is home to wildlife such as frogs, newts and dragonflies.
Born in 1908, Ruth Petersson Bancroft, the daughter of a UC Berkeley classics professor, would wander the open fields behind her family's Berkeley home to collect trilliums and other wildflowers.
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano's 2008 landmark green building, the California Academy of Sciences, houses Pierre the Penguin and 38, 000 other weird and wonderful animals under a "living roof" of California wildflowers.
But the hills used to be sown with maize and the wildflowers are a sign that the workforce has left the fields fallow to toil in more profitable ones in the United States.
The Gap a glorious mountain pass with crystal-clear streams, rugged peaks and wildflowers is best explored by walking, cycling, or, most atmospherically, jaunting car (horse and cart) with entertaining commentary from a jarvey (driver).
In June last year, the yard was ready to be seeded with grasses and wildflowers selected by the company's meadow specialist, Ed Yates, to work well with the region's hard-packed soil and dry conditions.
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Discover the astonishing variety of Himalayan wildflowers, quaint village hamlets, pristine forests, yak herder camps and mountain vistas, culminating at the Selela Pass , the only location in Bhutan where the wild red poppy is found.
In lieu of alone time, spend the day outside with the whole family picnicking at Piestewa Peak, a 2, 608-foot hilltop filled with wildflowers, almost every type of Arizona cactus and brilliant views of the valley.
Float silently down rivers, past trees and wildflowers (canoes are also available from Mutinondo Wilderness Lodge for the swimming-averse), and you will feel as though you are somewhere that has been untouched for hundreds of years.
The droppings that cowbirds and other invaders leave behind can also contain seeds from invasive plants that will sprout, spread and ultimately change the soil so much that some forest salamanders and wildflowers can't survive, experts note.
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