What is your favorite flower?

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Anonymous wrote:Peonies!

These are my favorite that you can generally get at flower shops! Beautiful.

My absolute favorite is wild violets in the woods. I love tuberose for scent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a terrible gardener, but the flowers I love (usually grown by others) include tubular begonias, gladiolas, moss rose, azaleas, and rununculus. I also love pink dogwoods.

For sentimental reasons, my very favorites will always be snapdragons and peppermint carnations.

My grandmother (who was a gifted gardener) showed me when I was very young how to make the dragon snap. Whenever I visited, she'd let me pick one and snap away. As a child, it was the neatest thing ever.

Peppermint carnations - I can't remember exactly how it started, but I remember getting shots and my Mom getting me one as a treat, and when I was sick, my Dad would bring home one to sit beside my bed and brighten my room. It was a marvel to me as a child that the flower was both red and white. Now, whenever I see one, it's a reminder of how loving my parents have always been.

Aww, sweet story. My mother loved roses and had beautiful ones im her garden. I have never had the knack but would gladly pay someone to get roses in my yard.

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Peonies and dahlias.

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Juliet or Desdemona roses (maybe I just like Shkspr?). But I’m a horrible gardener, so hardly ever see them.

[Anonymous]

Pp: and pretty much every single flower others have listed! They’re all wonderful!

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You would love my garden! It is filled with noisettes, bourbons, and DA roses!!

I can recommend Crepusclue for our area, doesn't mind the soil or the humidity, although sometimes it does ball before a storm. Still worth it! I have it climbing up the back of my house, about twenty feet tall and it blooms from April to December.

That sounds gorgeous! I’m jealous

[Anonymous]

Tulips of all colors

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Iris
David Austin roses: Abraham Darby, Crown Princess Marghareta and Constance Spry are my favorites
Hybrid musk roses
Romantica roses: Traviata is my favorite
Dahlias
Daylilies
Peonies
Hummingbird salvias of all stripes
Erythrina bidwilli: coral bean flower
Agastache
Sunflowers
Zinnias
Tithonia
Flowering vines: cardinal climber, Spanish flag, morning glory
Orchids
Lions Ears
Lilies of all kinds but the *@&$$*# deer have discovered them now

[Anonymous]

Nothing that smells. I like the smells as I pass by randomly (like gardenias) but in my house it’s massive headaches. Lillies are funeral flowers to me. They smell to cover dead body smell.

[Anonymous]

To grow, to look at, to smell, just in general?
To grow: zinnias, peonies, tulips.
To look at: orchids, dahlias, tulips, peonies.
To smell: orchids, roses, peonies, tulips, gardenias.
To see in gardens: perennial phlox, peonies, tiger lilies, lilacs.
To feel dreamy and nostalgic about: morning glories, dahlias, tiger lilies, old roses.

People with sterile yards, who don’t have anything that blooms in their yards, ever, confuse me. Meanwhile I’m over here trying to figure out if my neighborhood would tolerate a bee yard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Iris
David Austin roses: Abraham Darby, Crown Princess Marghareta and Constance Spry are my favorites
Hybrid musk roses
Romantica roses: Traviata is my favorite
Dahlias
Daylilies
Peonies
Hummingbird salvias of all stripes
Erythrina bidwilli: coral bean flower
Agastache
Sunflowers
Zinnias
Tithonia
Flowering vines: cardinal climber, Spanish flag, morning glory
Orchids
Lions Ears
Lilies of all kinds but the *@&$$*# deer have discovered them now

Have you tried bear urine from a hunting supply store?

[Anonymous]

Sunflower

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing that smells. I like the smells as I pass by randomly (like gardenias) but in my house it’s massive headaches. Lillies are funeral flowers to me. They smell to cover dead body smell.

Yes! For a few years my husband would send me flowers for Mother's Day which was very sweet. While I appreciated the sententiment, the arrangements always included lilies. Finally, I asked him to please pick different arrangements because I couldn't stop making the connection.

[Anonymous]

Marigolds

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Hydrangeas- I am slowly added new bushes each spring to our house. It takes a couple of years to get them established. My front garden will be gorgeous in a few more years.

Lillies and hibiscus are in second and third place.

I’m not big on roses, and hate carnations.

Dandelions will always hold a special place in my heart.