Fields awash with thousands of colourful roses have been captured in a series of stunning drone shots.

Taken by photographer Trevor Mayes, the pictures reveal a bird's eye view of the rose field located in Starston near Harleston. 

Trevor Mayes took the stunning shots (Image: Trevor Mayes) Mr Mayes, who took the photos last week, commented that the roses had produced a wonderful scent in the sunshine. 

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The fields belong to Whartons Garden Roses, one of the largest growers of garden roses in the UK.

The roses are cultivated by Whartons Nurseries (Image: Trevor Mayes) The field is in Starston near Harleston (Image: Trevor Mayes) The company supplies garden centres and nurseries throughout the UK, cultivating more than 1.5 million roses a year across fields that cover more than 60 hectares of land in south Norfolk. 

It takes nearly four years to take a rose from planting to the point of purchase, and the company has three production sites that take the field-grown roses through grading, potting and dispatch.

Whartons Nurseries was founded by John Wharton in 1947 and is currently run by his son Robert and grandson Paul. 

The Second World War halted production of his early rose crops as food took priority but Mr Wharton was allowed to retain enough propagating material to launch the business after the war ended.