Favorite flower and why

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Lighthouse_7
Lighthouse_7 Member Posts: 1,566 Member
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
I just love the little relief topics like, favorite food, color or origin of name. They bring nice thoughts.
So I thought I'd ask what your favorite flower is and why? I love flowers and they are very calming to me to take care of them.
Thanks and I hope I get a lot of responses.
I need more than one....sorry,
Rose- is first because of their incredible beauty and smell.
Wisteria- makes me happy to see the weeping grape-like flowers.
Also love the way they form and shape to whatever arbor they are on.
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  • Marcia527
    Marcia527 Member Posts: 2,729
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    I like daisies. Cause they
    I like daisies. Cause they look so happy and simple.
  • Emilyfimily
    Emilyfimily Member Posts: 141
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    daisies! I love to go down
    daisies! I love to go down into my Dad's hay meadow in the late spring because of all the daisies. They're the happiest most innocent little flower, and I love how they just spring up like "hey, here we are! just happy to be here!" Love 'em :)
  • Emilyfimily
    Emilyfimily Member Posts: 141
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    Emilyfimily said:

    daisies! I love to go down
    daisies! I love to go down into my Dad's hay meadow in the late spring because of all the daisies. They're the happiest most innocent little flower, and I love how they just spring up like "hey, here we are! just happy to be here!" Love 'em :)

    wow, hey Marcia great minds
    wow, hey Marcia great minds think alike, and apparently we have good timing, too, haha
  • SamuraiMom
    SamuraiMom Member Posts: 295
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    Yellow Rose
    I grew up in Texas (don't live there any more) but I've always been partial to the Yellow Rose of Texas!

    So bright and strong. Just thinking about them makes me smile. :)

    xxoo,
    SamuraiMom
  • Boppy_of_6
    Boppy_of_6 Member Posts: 1,138
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    SamuraiMom said:

    Yellow Rose
    I grew up in Texas (don't live there any more) but I've always been partial to the Yellow Rose of Texas!

    So bright and strong. Just thinking about them makes me smile. :)

    xxoo,
    SamuraiMom

    I love tulips and to be
    I love tulips and to be honest not sure why, they have just always been my favorite! God Bless
    (((Hugs))) Janice
  • Menda
    Menda Member Posts: 128
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    Yellow Roses. They smell
    Yellow Roses. They smell wonderful and are beautiful, bright and cheery maybe I love them because I am a Texas girl.
    Magnolia. They smell incrediable and will make several rooms smell. Just don't touch them.
  • Rague
    Rague Member Posts: 3,653 Member
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    I don't have "A" favorite flower.
    IF I had to say one - Tulips! (They are the first flower I remeber seeing in the spring the first year we were in France)

    BUT they aren't far ahead of roses (smell so good), gardenias (Smell so good and pretty white), rhodies/azalea, pansys, sweet peas, larkspur, delphinium, daffys, hollyhocks,

    In flowereing trees - Royal Poincianna and Jacarnda (Probably spelled both wrong).
  • Rague
    Rague Member Posts: 3,653 Member
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    SamuraiMom said:

    Yellow Rose
    I grew up in Texas (don't live there any more) but I've always been partial to the Yellow Rose of Texas!

    So bright and strong. Just thinking about them makes me smile. :)

    xxoo,
    SamuraiMom

    The first flowers a young
    The first flowers a young man ever sent me were yellow roses for my 7th birthday. I can't heard "The Yellow Rose of Texas" without thinking about a very special time in my life while living in France and Jean Francois.
  • Hope 2010
    Hope 2010 Member Posts: 62
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    Stargazers, always loved
    Stargazers, always loved their smell and Easter Lilies they have an lovely but strong smell.
  • step@atime
    step@atime Member Posts: 17
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    DAISY
    Daisy--They bloom smiling.
    Sunflowers--Their faces beam toward heaven and follow "The Light"
  • sea60
    sea60 Member Posts: 2,613
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    Mountain Laurel
    Not only does the bloom look like a cluster of grapes...it smells like one. Here in Texas it blooms for only about a month in Feb/Mar...then it's gone.
  • Lighthouse_7
    Lighthouse_7 Member Posts: 1,566 Member
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    sea60 said:

    Mountain Laurel
    Not only does the bloom look like a cluster of grapes...it smells like one. Here in Texas it blooms for only about a month in Feb/Mar...then it's gone.

    They sound so beautiful! I
    They sound so beautiful! I planted one in my yard but it has yet to bloom, just healthy green leaves.
    Thanks!
  • Lighthouse_7
    Lighthouse_7 Member Posts: 1,566 Member
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    So far daisies and yellow
    So far daisies and yellow roses have it! Thanks, this is fun. My Grandmother loved Gardenia's as well, awesome smell but very delicate.
  • jnl
    jnl Member Posts: 3,869 Member
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    Boppy_of_6 said:

    I love tulips and to be
    I love tulips and to be honest not sure why, they have just always been my favorite! God Bless
    (((Hugs))) Janice

    I love daisies! They are
    I love daisies! They are just a beautiful, simple flower that make me smile!

    Hugs, Leeza
  • greyhoundluvr
    greyhoundluvr Member Posts: 402
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    I love....
    Anything that blooms and even more any flower that smells good. But the one I seem to plant the most is Echinacea or coneflower. They are shaped like daisies (which I also love) but have lots of vibrant colors. They are hardy and can withstand just about any type of treatment and they even have a medicinal value. No matter what you throw at them, they just hang in there and bloom - maybe I'm just seeing some parallels to life:)
  • Dot53
    Dot53 Member Posts: 239 Member
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    Lilacs
    Lilacs have always been my favorite... we had a tree in our yard and my mom used to pick a couple bunches and place them around the house... such a beautiful fragrance... when I smell them now it brings back memories of those simpler times...

    Dot
  • Third_Generation
    Third_Generation Member Posts: 121
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    Daisies! Those were our
    Daisies! Those were our courtship flowers. Then our wedding flowers, 41 years this coming Monday.
    Brenda
  • natly15
    natly15 Member Posts: 1,941
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    I absolutely love Gardenias.
    I absolutely love Gardenias. They bloom in May, and rightly so because that is the month of mothers. They also remind me of my mom. My gardenia bush died :(, but I have a friend who shares her blooms with me each season.
  • Alexis F
    Alexis F Member Posts: 3,598
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    sea60 said:

    Mountain Laurel
    Not only does the bloom look like a cluster of grapes...it smells like one. Here in Texas it blooms for only about a month in Feb/Mar...then it's gone.

    Wildflowers
    I love so many flowers that it would be hard to pick just one. My husband always brings home big bouquets of wildflowers, so, I would say those.

    Lex♥
  • CypressCynthia
    CypressCynthia Member Posts: 4,014 Member
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    I LOVE gardening! Ilove this post!
    I love any of our native wildflowers. Ask me sometime about the many benefits of planting natives: decreases introduction of awful plant diseases, attracts native bugs that feed our native birds, pride in our own wonderful USA plants, etc. I could talk about the subject forever. And will probably bore you to tears--lol!

    One of my favorites is coral bean (Erythrina herbacea). It has these strange heart shaped leave and suddenly shoots up a huge spike of red flowers and then later has beautiful red seeds in weird pods. I also love rudbeckia maxima--it looks like a black eyed susan on steroids (about 6 feet tall)! False indigo (Baptisia australis) is a beautiful blue and has the most awesome looking seed pods. All of them are perennial and come back without coaxing every year.

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