I decided to play by the rules for The Gallery today so instead of sitting on the sofa browsing through old snaps, I removed by bum from the seat and have wandered round ‘My Backyard’ to bring you a few photos of the roses which have started to bloom. It’s a fabulous day here in South Lincolnshire and for once the wind seems to have died down so the plants aren’t being battered.
On my little jaunt I also came across a rather interesting display left by the kitchen fitters on the back step. I think they’ve tried very hard to design a contemporary look and I’m so pleased I’ve asked them to fill the vases in the living room too.
What pretty flowers you have in your garden
Beautiful flowers…not such a beautiful display on your doorstep though!
Looks like someone is green fingered
Lovely! And your garden must be sheltered… either that or those burly builders have been standing in the way of your roses. The wind's played havoc with ours, if you know what I mean!
@Jenny – Thank you, we always seem to have good roses. Have done no pots or hanging baskets this year so great to have some colour in the garden.
@Inside the wendy house – That doorstep display doesn't float your boat then? đ
@Vicky – erm, I have to admit I'm not. Husband sprays them and I dead head them but that's about the limit of my talent. Thankfully they are very hardy!
@Dotterel – I'm amazed I have any blooms at all, it's been very windy here too. One lovely rose bush was damaged by a flying garden chair.
Bloomin' lovely.
Naturally.
@Steve – Aren't they just! And they stayed still for the camera.
Beautiful….just lovely.
LOL! The roses are really gorgeous, and the kitchen fitters very creative indeed… Do they take orders from abroad? ;o)
Oh lovely – there really is nothing like a real rose growing in a real garden. I also love your second installation, you are becoming a veritable Tracey Emin what with the elephant trunk inside too!
I love your roses, my favourite flowers, can almsot smell them đ @Kahanka
They are gorgeous. Particularly like the blue one with strange White stem. Still on iPhone size viewing so hope I've guessed right this time! Seriously the White one is a lovely photo. Flying chairs? Blimey the weather must have scooted around our area or I slept through it!
All gorgeous, but my favorite is the yellow with the peachy edges… does it have a fascinating name, too?
I think the little display that the pipefitters left you would be written up in very chi-chi and edgy design journals as something like, 'still life with PVC'
Or maybe not.
Nice contrast, anyway!
@Libby – Thanks, missus.
@Funky – I'll have a word. They are fitting German appliances so I'm sure they'll be more than happy.
@About Last weekend – thanks Jodie. I knew you would appreciate my arty farty installations. I think I may soon charge visitors.
@Mirka – most of the rosebushes were planted by the previous house owners: the white ones have masses of heads in the summer.
@Kelloggsville – Ah I knew you would appreciate the blue and white combo. As for the chairs, they are quite lightweight aluminium frames but even so it travelled a fair distance!
@MsCaroline – I dodn't know the name of the yellow one; it's been there a long time, certainly before we came along in 1994.
I do think you're right about the pipe-fitters artwork – it's just so now.
Nice flowers! And I think the bullet holes in your house wall – final photo – add quite a Tripolian look.
@Troy – Ah you spotted them! It seemed such a simple decision to move our utility room sink by 90 degrees. Maybe if they fill the holes with pipes I can have a Pompidou back doorstep!
Gorgeous colourful roses. I bet the air was colourful about the other display though! đ
Oooooh, I miss roses. It's just too hot for them here. Yours are simply beautiful!
@SAHMloving it – they seem to have removed it today: It must have a space in another exhibition.
@Kate – Everything else in the garden is a bit lacking in colour to be honest but the roses are always fab.
What beautiful flowers. I love roses. I have a friend though who hates them and won't have them in the house or garden. Don't know what they've done to offend, but she hates flowers which are red too.
I was given a red rose bush by a (now) ex-boyfriend. It's still in my garden but is totally neglected. As I can't bring myself to pull it up (cos it reminds me of him), I just ignore it. No pruning or anything. Yet it bravely put out one beautiful flower recently.
Shame it makes me think of him.
@sarah – roses are very hardy: we're not great gardeners but we don't have to do much to keep them alive.
An old flame re-ignited through a rose blooming: very symbolic and sense a little sadness?
Roses are my most favourite flower, grown in whatever capacity. I just love their shape and the way they fall when on a bush.
CJ xx
I love roses and have got some beauties here in the new house. Smelt a particularly gorgeous one in the private courtyard at Penshurst Place the other day – where one is not usually permitted don't you know! THE most sensuous fragrance. I actually gasped. It smelt of my birthday. Weird how I usually hate things associated with my birthday – except roses. Love them. Love the petals enticing the innocent towards the thorns mwa ha haaaa…!!!!