This is the blooming marvellous sight of a house completely covered in a rainbow of summer flowers - and it's been a labour of love for 26 years.
Anne and Robin Strange, who devote every spare hour to their luscious house-garden, say they are still adding to the display almost three decades after they began.
The pair spend hundreds of pounds every year on seeds and plants, nurturing them inside a greenhouse before putting them on display in mid-June.
Colourful: Anne Strange amongst the thousands of rainbow coloured blooms almost covering her house in North Yorkshire
Mrs Strange, 65, said: 'We were in York one day looking at all the beautiful hanging baskets and we were inspired to create our own.
'We have been planting more and more flowers ever since.'
The couple, of Coniston Cold, North Yorkshire, have had an amazing response from motorists who drive past their multicoloured home.
Inspired: Motorists adore looking at the couple's home and one woman even sends a gift voucher every Christmas to express her appreciation of the spectacle
Bright and beautiful: Even back in 1988, left, and in 1980, right, the Strange's house looked stunning but over the years it's become even more beautiful
One woman even sends them a gift voucher every Christmas to express her appreciation of the spectacle.
Mrs Strange added: 'People think its great, we get cards from people we have never even met.'
Mr Strange, 65, who works for Tree Tops Forestry, spends every weekend and evening seeing to the garden.
Dedication: Mr and Mrs Strange spend hundreds of pounds every year planting seeds and nurturing the blooms inside a greenhouse
Mrs Strange said: 'I dread to think how much money goes on the garden, but it definitely all adds up.
'It is worth it though, we are both very pleased with what we have created.'
An irrigation system means the couple do not have to worry about the mammoth task of watering the flowers as it is done automatically.
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This is what our homes will/can look like oh so effortlessly in 5D
!!!!!Flower Power!!!!!
How beautiful - the garden and the gardeners!
The flowers look happy and healthy to be there. Goodness all the way around.
simply beautiful!!
that couple obviously has alota free time & money to maintain that home !!
You're right - it does make you smile
Their love and dedication that they have put in embeds in your heart
Wow, what a labour of love, and what beautiful results...it sounds like an unconditional gift to their neighbours and people who they don't even know.
Thanks for posting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So much love and dedication....truly amazing...THOSE WHO LOVE NATURE LOVE MOTHER EARTH AND GET HER BLESSINGS
Totally breathtaking. I would love to live in a place filled with flowers like this. A home filled with flowers all in and around it is a home filled with love. Thank goodness they have an irrigation system. Otherwise they would be watering all day...
Thaniks for sharing this, it makes my small flower garden look so inadequate, lol. Maybe it is time for me to plant more flowers..
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