This week, the WordPress WeeklyPhoto Challenge is Vivid. I’m not sure these roses are the most vivid colours I have seen, but I found the names a cut above the ordinary. A vivid imagination could transport you through time and place.
Going clockwise from the left, the names are Fantin Latour, Rose Gaujard, Cardinal Richelieu….
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‘Fantin Latour’. A name to conjure with Sue. I am thinking of a gay man in a Guy de Maupassant story, or a dancer at the Folies Bergere at the time of Lautrec.
Nice roses too.
Best wishes, Pete.
I love your ideas for the name! Ignace Henri Theodore Fantin-Latour was actually a French artist who painted flowers…. 😀
Should have looked him up first…Just did. He gets a mention in ‘A la recherce du temps perdu’. Impressive.
And all that because of the name of a rose….
Love your comment Pete 🙂 And I saw an Ollie lookalike today in St Ives, with a bald headed man too 😉
!!
As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits: kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
(I should re-write this, about Shar-Peis and elderly men!)
A bald-headed man? Not me then, as I have at least 100 hairs left…x
🙂
Hahaha… not sure you have tattoos either 😀
God forbid! x
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Sue, they’re beautiful. I have only two or three blooms lingering on one bush. They’ll be gone in the next southerly change.
Well, may I say up front that these are not my roses! And despite the loving care they get, with all the wind and some rain that we have had recently, a lot of them are looking quite blown about.
Vivid roses with beautiful names! Love the colours too.
I was struck by those names!
Superb names. So beautifully photographed too!
Thanks, Jude! I just loved the roll-call of names!
Lovely Sue. Vivid indeed 🙂
Well, there were even more vivid colours, but with more mundane names, so I chose these 😦
Lovely colours, Sue. Thanks for joining the challenge this week.
Thanks, Drake….I usually do this challenge, always enjoy seeing what I can come up with!
They are so extraordinary especially the names. Would be interesting how the names originated. Guess, I will be researching the history of the names.
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I think these varieties have been around a long time, they are beautiful!
Aren’t they just! 😀
Beautifully vivid and the color really pops on the dark backgrounds. Gorgeous!
Thanks, Susan! 🙂
Fantin Latour is particularly lovely 🙂 What’s your favourite?
The Fantin Latour, as it happens! 🙂
I Found a lovely rose garden in the Broads this afternoon 🙂 (as well as all those boats!)
Fabulous – where? Look forward to the pictures 🙂
Lovely roses Sue and interesting names. I chuckled when reading the 3 way conversation with you, BP and Jude… I think the most vivid one is the Rose Gaujard and it is the black background that makes it sing…
😀😀 and glad you like the Rose Gaujard contre jour….I wanted plenty of negative space around the bloom
The flowers are beautiful, and really beautifully composed. Well done.
Many thanks, Tina – much appreciated 🙂