Beauty of wildflowers

When in 2012 the conservation charity Plantlife published its Vanishing Flora report, which highlighted the dramatic loss of wildflowers across the UK, it inspired its Patron HRH The Prince of Wales to call for the creation of a series of Coronation Meadows to celebrate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Images of the resulting new meadows, together with their wildflowers, from glorious orchids to humble cowslips (above), formed the basis of photographer Hugo RittsonThomas’s beautiful recent book Wildflowers for the Queen, and are now on view in a new exhibition at the Garden Museum. Until 17 October, entry included in museum admission. gardenmuseum.org.uk