Country diary: There’s a new star in the garden – the tree bumblebee | Ed Douglas

Abbeydale, Sheffield: With the bees returning, spring has truly arrived, and they’re attracted particularly to our neighbour’s cherry plumThrough the winter I went out every day to get my fix of nature. Now, though, it’s practically breaking into the house. I need only open the bedroom curtains. Beneath me, as happens every spring, the neighbour’s cherry plum is having its moment in the spotlight. Some years, in fact most, this is a fleeting glimpse of pink that disappear