ladybird poppies (Papaver commutatum) - just one of the plant trends we’ve picked out from this year’s Chelsea Flower Show. Photograph: Jacky Parker/Alamy

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Photograph: Picasa/Alan Margerison

Kyoto in bloom: the cherry blossom season – in pictures

These pictures first appeared as a blogpost on the Shibuya246 blog

Photograph: Sukree Sukplang/Reuters

Monkeys enjoying a cold bath during a hot day in Ayutthaya, Thailand. Nearby Bangkok is seeing the hottest average temperatures in the past 30 years - part of our environment site’s Week in Wildlife gallery.

Photograph: Kerstin Joensson/AP

For anyone having a bad hair day today, this is the gallery for you:

Alpacas on a farm in Goeming, Salzburg, are shorn in the spring to make the animals more comfortable for the summer months.

Photograph: Gerry Ellis/Corbis

Koalas under threat in Australia - in pictures on our environment news pages

Photograph: Jamal Nasrallah/EPA

A caterpillar lies on a wild flower at a farm at wadi Al-Sheta, west of Amman, Jordan - one of the stunning images in this week’s wildlife gallery from our environment team

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Photograph: Jeff Horner/AP

It’s always hard to choose which photo from our week in wildlife gallery we should Tumble - but this week was especially tough! Check out the other photos here

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