The view from our window planted 15 yrs ago for my first wife, now being added to by second wife who is a very keen gardener, we don't have any view so we create one in the garden
Witzend I love those ruffly petals, so pretty! Is it scented? And your nails are very nice too 
My lovely Emily Brontë. Only it’s 2nd year, it’s doing a lot better than last year, but that was disappointing. I don’t think I had fed it enough.
I picked these from the garden, they have exactly the type of petals I'd have used sooooo many years ago, to create a perfume for my mother.......in a milk bottle. My creations never did end up on her dressing table 
This was taken this morning - a "Happy Accident" as the poppy self-seeded itself right next to the rose. The rose is called "New Scotland Yard" but I believe it is no longer available.
Here it is - 1950s lipstick pink.
Very amateur gardeners are we! Before we moved here, we had a courtyard garden in West London, just large enough for outside eating and some pots of flowers, compensated by communal gardens, beautifully maintained leading down to the Thames. I love roses, not knowing anything about them a friend bought us a red David Austin Rose, our first summer here. Here are a few of our amateurish efforts, o/h loves pottering in the garden almost as much as he loves being on the golf course 
I have no idea what this rose is called but it smells absolutely beautiful, it was in the garden when we moved here 7 years ago and I’ve nurtured it.
This is my Paul’s Himalayan Musk from last June. It’s just starting to flower. I planted this, as my son is Paul. I also have ‘New Dawn’ after my daughter, ‘Rosa Meg’ and ‘Matilda’ after two of my granddaughters. I’ve struggled with a Salvia ‘Madeline’, another granddaughter, but had beautiful flowers from Tulipa ‘Gabriella’ one year.
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