Gardeners and Nature Lovers: Favorite FLOWERS!
 

After some hiatus from home ownership, it looks like this summer I will have a garden again (joy!)

My favorite flowers in order:

Tulips!

Such an eligant and perfect shape and what colors!

http://www.tulips.com/flowers/Apeldoorn1102.jpg


Ah, roses! Queen of all flowers. The sharpness of their thorns matches their beauty...

http://armchairgardener.com/subject....hofclass2.jpeg

Darling columbines, mountain flower!

What a joy to be strolling down a mountain meadow path and unexpectedly come upon you!

http://www.canoe.ca/LifewisePlantGar...olumbines1.jpg

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Not into gardening, but these flowers always make the park look nice:

Magnolias:

http://www.princeton.edu/~gressman/nikon/ImgB04.jpg

and good ol' daffodils:

http://www.princeton.edu/~gressman/nikon/daffodil.jpg

I've always really like Tiger Lillies :)

http://www.rrvgardenclub.org/images/...gerlilies2.jpg

My favorite flowers of all time- IRISES!!!

http://www.public.asu.edu/~ajfox/Peachiris.jpe

http://www.public.asu.edu/~ajfox/cascadeb.jpe

i was about to say that.... i have some around a bird bath... i love em.
dont have a picture at the moment...

Lebell, you read my mind!

I was just thinking about starting this thread last night!!!


http://www.foldedspace.org/photos/purpletulips.jpg
Tulips- especially purple, pink, and white

http://www.dufresh.com/images/large%...-pink-vase.jpg
Roses- especially unusual colours boughten for me from *moon*

http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/woody/graphics/hydrangea.jpg
Hydrangea

http://www.recarr.com/images/Gerbera...e%20Peachy.JPG
Gerbera Daisies (I have some in my back yard)

http://www.silkarthawaii.com/images/...f-paradise.jpg
Bird-of-Paradise

http://www.lafayettetravel.com/images/magnolia.jpg
Magnolias

http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/vb/lotus.jpg
Lotus

http://thecrazymonkey.com/images/hybiscus.jpg
Hybiscus

i thought hibiscus had an i? ohwell maybe im wrong

i dont like any flowers or plants :O they torrment me... but maybe i will recover from the hatred in a few years

most of you listed common ones though.. the ones everybody likes i was expecting to see some odd balls but ohwell not my thread im ranting sorry just got home from a new job at 213 am and am in a wierd mood... lalalala

We are lucky to have a yard in which a new flower blooms from March thru October. My favorite, by far, is the Calla Lily; although I enjoy them all.


http://isaac.wedin.org/images/Flowers/Calla_lilies.jpg

:icare:

Out of respect for HalX, I'm not going to upload photos of every flower in my magnificent garden. Every Southern gentleman should have an upscale knowledge of flowers, and the garden my wife and I have created is our pride and joy.

We have four basic areas of enjoyment:
1) Something is blooming every month out of the year.
2) Something fragrant is blooming every season.
3) Butterflies love our garden.
4) Native 19th Century Southern flowers are featured.

Many of these areas overlap, obviously, but here is a teeny-tiny smidgeon of a partial list of our very favorites from our yard (leaving out the many multiple varieties we have of several of these).

Native azalea
Daylily
Grancey graybeard
Tea olive
Rose
Peony
Iris
Spirea
Eleagnus
Hosta
Verbena
Viburnum
Amaryllis
Mock Orange
Pussy Willow
Forsythia
Lorapelatum
Hyacinth
Dogwood
Autumn sage
Yoshino
Speedwell
Dianthus
Dahlia
Althea
Magnolia
Crabapple
Peach
Fig
Redbud
Lady Banks Rose

Oh good grief, I could go on all day. If anybody ever referred to one of our babies as "just plants," my wife would likely hit them.