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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsApril showers will bring May flowers. What is/are your favorite flower/flowers? Mine are sunflowers.🌻
a kennedy
(36,354 posts)debm55
(61,803 posts)debm55
(61,803 posts)electric_blue68
(27,348 posts)In one of my nabes we a had a climber around the other side of the block. 🩷
I loved them on the arched trelises at the BGs.
OAITW r.2.0
(32,617 posts)Freaking grass goes nutz up here all of May. My lawns really want to be fields. Should have mowed a week ago. Will be mowing early next week....again.
debm55
(61,803 posts)and a mess. However, It is supposed to rain the next three days.
OAITW r.2.0
(32,617 posts)debm55
(61,803 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(32,617 posts)Hey. I have a sister born in 1955. She was teacher of the year in Maine sometime ago. Life goes on - Obladi Obladah.
Grim Chieftain
(2,055 posts)They are so gentle and so fragrant.
debm55
(61,803 posts)Frasier Balzov
(5,108 posts)And all the petals have fallen off by one week later.
debm55
(61,803 posts)yellowdogintexas
(23,763 posts)Our house in Evansville came with 3 lovely peony plants. I miss seeing them.
3catwoman3
(29,810 posts)...Gerbera daisies, lilies of the valley, bleeding hearts, geraniums, violets, hyacinths, lilacs, moss roses, begonias, and, although not a flower, coleus plants.
debm55
(61,803 posts)Bayard
(30,295 posts)They're just starting to bud here now. I have them in a wildflower bed in my garden, along with blue Bachelor Buttons, Blackeyed Susans, and not-so-wild, Hollyhocks.
debm55
(61,803 posts)LoisB
(13,493 posts)debm55
(61,803 posts)electric_blue68
(27,348 posts)I really love plenty of flowers, but these are my most favorites. 🤔 Hydrangeas probably are my 3rd favorite .or maybe hibicus are and hydrangeas 4th.
debm55
(61,803 posts)But top tier are gladiolus, lilacs, sunflowers, roses, lilies and lily of the valley.
debm55
(61,803 posts)applegrove
(133,123 posts)cloudbase
(6,317 posts)Bristlecone
(11,191 posts)CanonRay
(16,275 posts)We have lots of them here.
MIButterfly
(3,149 posts)I also like hydrangeas.
But my absolute favorite flowers to have in pots are begonias and New Guinea impatiens because they are so pretty and low-maintenance.
Aristus
(72,528 posts)It isn't really silver. It's a very pale lavender. But it's beautiful. You don't see it around much, because it's very difficult to cultivate. That gives it rarity value, as well.
yellowdogintexas
(23,763 posts)I would love a variety which would bloom all summer. There are reblooming iris but they do not do well here because our summers are too hot and too long.
I wish daffodils would last longer too.
Wicked Blue
(9,024 posts)I'm unable to choose just one of them
Figarosmom
(13,427 posts)But the only flower I insist on for formal occasions is the Lily of the Valley. Had them all over the church and in my bouquet for my wedding ( got married in May just because that is the time of year for them).
I also like Roses and Dalhias.
debm55
(61,803 posts)here.
ProfessorGAC
(77,303 posts)And hour & a half to 2 hours southeast of Budapest, I visited an edible oil processing plant that was almost exclusively sunflower oil.
The squeezed the seeds for oil, the ground the rest for livestock feed.
For the last 25 miles or so, the fields were sunflowers for as far as the eye could see in every direction.
All we could see was yellow!
As to your question, I think roses, but I have liked snapdragons since I was a little kid.
debm55
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