Fuchsia, onagraceae, at Hidcote Manor Garden

Stained glass panel of bird in window of Great Hall at Stoneacre, a medieval Wealden house in Kent

Glorious blue flowers of Convolvulus tricolor (Ipomoea) at Greys Court, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

A close up of a mallard duck at Lyme Park

A motif of a creature from the Marian Needlework at Oxburgh Hall

A Highland cow with a magnificent spread of horns, on the moor by Lantern Wood

Early Spider-orchid (Ophrys spegodes, previously Ophrys aranifera) at Dancing Ledge, Dorset, in April

Red deer stags (Cervus elaphus) clashing antlers in the medieval deer park at Lyme Park, Cheshire

Lord Wraxall's Teddy Bear sitting on a chair covered with a nursery print in the Day Nursery at Tyntesfield

Pair of Elizabethan gauntlet mittens at Dunham Massey

Two Herdwick sheep, one with shorn coat, the other still in fleece, at Wast Water in the Lake District, Cumbria, Yew Barrow in the distance

A modern Verdure tapestry in the Great Chamber at Lytes Cary Manor