What is your favorite flower?

Anonymous
Pansies
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Anonymous wrote:Pansies


Awww - so sweet they are
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Anonymous wrote: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.

Oooh, respectfully, revisit carnations. I’m growing them in my garden this year, if my seed starting is successful.
Anonymous
I know it's not a flower, but I love flowering trees. Cherry, apple, dogwood, redbud--love them!!
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Anonymous wrote:I know it's not a flower, but I love flowering trees. Cherry, apple, dogwood, redbud--love them!!


Have you seen a blooming mimosa tree? I encountered them for the first time a few years ago on a trip to Georgia. They're beautiful and unique. I almost put them on my favorite list.
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know it's not a flower, but I love flowering trees. Cherry, apple, dogwood, redbud--love them!!


Have you seen a blooming mimosa tree? I encountered them for the first time a few years ago on a trip to Georgia. They're beautiful and unique. I almost put them on my favorite list.


They are horribly invasive. We had one sprouting in the back yard and had to grind the stump, as it kept coming back.

http://mdinvasives.org/iotm/may-2009/
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Anonymous wrote: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.


I have a certified polinator and bird habitat on my 1/3 acre. I have an incredible amount of native bees growing and feeding on my plants (aromatic asters and oakleaf hydrangea are their favorite). For butterflies, I have host and nectar plants for monarch, pipervine swallowtail, tiger
swallowtail, giant swallowtail, mourning clock, viceroy, buckeye, tons of skippers, painted lady etc. A bluebird male found and took over my first bird nest box and is looking for a girlfriend. A hummingbirds is nesting in the spring in an oak. I can't imagine a yard without life.
Anonymous
Flowers: tuberose, marigolds, ranunculus, wild onion
Trees: redbuds, southern magnolia
Shrubs: hydrangeas, lilacs
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