This field, at Bamburgh on the Northumberland coast, has been sown with wild and nectar rich flowers, as part of a wonderful EU Environmental Stewardship scheme to boost bumblebee numbers and to provide food for game birds like partridges.
Most of the colour that can be seen now is due to red campion and the blue-flowered Phacelia, but the colours will change through the season as other species come into flower.
Click here for pictures of a similar planting, with different species and on a smaller scale, in Norfolk.
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