in bloom

To find out who aids B. subcupularis in its reproduction, he and his team watched the plants for more than 100 hours and took tens of thousands of automated night photographs while the flower was in bloom or bore fruit, identifying the visitors.

Because isn’t that what beauty is, in all of its prismatic totality — hard to kill, always in bloom?

Helen Marshall, 71, is one of the Lord Street in Bloom garden volunteers who have been looking after the floral tributes.

Mr Clarke said the raised bed was planted to "brighten things up" as part of the Britain in Bloom competition.

“I wanted to have a bold effect when things were in bloom,” she says of the homeowners’ request for a colorful landscape.