Wiltshire in Pictures: Bees, parks and mazes

17 hours ago

This week's cooler temperatures have come as a relief to many getting out and about, including these bumblebees

WeatherWatchers/TAG Two bumblebees compete for pollen, clinging onto a bright pink flower. — This week's cooler temperatures have come as a relief to many getting out and about, including these bumblebees

There is a distinctly natural feel to this week's Wiltshire in Pictures, with a bumblebee duo, maze trimming and an award-winning park all featuring in the round-up.

This week has also seen the completion of a walking sports festival in Melksham and a celebration of businesses which support Special Educational Needs Education (Send) in Trowbridge.

Here is some of the best pictures from across the county this week.

South Swindon Parish Council A group of people hold a green banner with the words "Green Flag Award 2025/26" in front of a bandstand in a park. Leafy green trees can be seen in the background but the grass around the bandstand is patchy and dry in places.

Blooming marvellous: A historic Wiltshire park has been recognised for its exceptional management and environmental standards. Swindon's Town Gardens has received a Green Flag Award for 2025-26, which has recognised its well-maintained Victorian features and active community engagement programmes.

Tom Anders/Longleat A large maze made up of thick green hedges is pictured from above. About a dozen twisting pathways can be seen. A person, who is dwarfed by the maze, can be seen using a trimmer to cut the pristine hedges into shape.

Tom Anders/Longleat A gardener with an electric hedge trimmer trims a section of hedge maze. The hedge is about waist height and his trimmer is level on the top of the hedge.

A-maze-ing: A team of 12 gardeners have completed a weeklong hedge cut on the gigantic Longleat maze. The maze, which is made up of more than 16,000 English yew trees, is one of the largest in the world and needs regular attention, but can only be trimmed at certain times of the year.

Wiltshire Council Seven people stand around a vertical banner which reads "Active Wiltshire Walking Sports". They are inside a leisure centre foyer and are all wearing activewear, with most of them in shorts and dark blue T-shirts.

Game, set and stroll: More than 90 people laced up their trainers and joined the fun at a Walking Sports Festival held at Melksham Community Campus on Sunday. The free event gave people of all ages and abilities the chance to try out walking versions of tennis, rugby, football, netball and badminton.

WeatherWatchers/Chully A gravel track with long grass on either side captured in the golden sunlight of an early morning. Fields are on either side of the pathway and are a rich yellow/orange in colour. Hills can be seen in the background.

County roads, take me home: With the county's fields at their golden peak, Weather Watcher Chully was able to capture this shot of a pristine Calne morning earlier in the week.

WeatherWatchers/Lupin A sweeping valley of long grass and crops extending as far as the eye can see below a blue sky.

Over the ridge: Another of our Weather Watchers has been busy in the south of the county, with Broad Chalke's majestic hillsides captured by Lupin.

A partial rainbow appears in the distance behind trees and houses on the side of a hill at dusk.

True colours: With the wetter weather at the start of the week, observant photographers had the opportunity to capture a number of fleeting rainbows, such as this one in Malmesbury.

Wiltshire Council A large group of people stand in a foyer with a couple of yellow balloons in the foreground. Rooms and walkways with glass walls can be seen on the second storey of the building above them.

Stellar support: 16 companies across Wiltshire have been recognised by Wiltshire Council for their outstanding support in offering workplace opportunities to young people with Send.

Wiltshire Council's Send Employer Champion Scheme celebrated its one-year anniversary with companies from across the county being acknowledged.

Follow BBC Wiltshire on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to us on email or via WhatsApp on 0800 313 4630.