I have at least 2 dozen "Faves"

I just picked these fresh from my Dad's garden ( Peonies )

They smell INCREDIBLE !

Machaela said:

I have at least 2 dozen "Faves"

I just picked these fresh from my Dad's garden ( Peonies )

They smell INCREDIBLE !

that is his view? Incredible beatiful!

dJJ said:

Machaela said:

I have at least 2 dozen "Faves"

I just picked these fresh from my Dad's garden ( Peonies )

They smell INCREDIBLE !

that is his view? Incredible beatiful!

Thats my front deck railing ~ he lives down the hill a bit from us

I have lived in this house for 19ish yrs and never tire of walking out and gazing at Mother Nature's gifts

I like taking flower pics. Thailand has some beautiful ones

this time of year, only silk/wax flowers...

Machaela said:

I have at least 2 dozen "Faves"

I just picked these fresh from my Dad's garden ( Peonies )

They smell INCREDIBLE !

They are beautiful and smell incredible! I used to grow them myself, but Minnesota is not the

best place for them. Our spring can be very harsh....windy and rainy, so the poor flowers really

don't stand a chance. Lilacs do much better in our neck of the woods, and they smell incredible

as well!

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Fauxie said:

I like taking flower pics. Thailand has some beautiful ones

Gorgeous!

I have so many favorite flowers, it's hard to pick just one....but here's a few that I adore,

besides the lilacs I posted above.

Daffodils

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Cockscomb or Celosia

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Hibiscus

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Roses

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Tulips

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Hydrangeas

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Tulipssssss.

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vainandy said:

It's hard for me to pick just one.

I absolutely love columbines:

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Sweet peas:

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Phlox:

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Forget-me-nots:

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And of course, violets:

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In the park where I walk, there are solid purple and solid white violets that are mixed together in one bunch. They look really pretty, especially when the sun is out.

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novabrkr said:

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Did you know you can eat dandelions from root to petals? Its a great cleanser for the blood and good for asthmatics like me... I like to make tea from the yellow fowerheads. The leaves make a good bitter salad and the roots are good in teas also, though I never tried them.

Look at the sparrows.... they eat the seeds off the dandelion heads after they pop open.

When I was a kid I picked some dandelions and gave them to my first grade teacher as a gift. Later on I wondered where they went, and happened to glance in the garbage can, and saw she'd tossed them in there at some point... I never did feel the same way about her after that .

I had no idea at the time that dandelions weren't technically considered to be a flower. I still kinda don't get how a lot of people can't stand them and go nuts when they see them; as far as weeds go, they're pretty nice to look at.

armpit said:

When I was a kid I picked some dandelions and gave them to my first grade teacher as a gift. Later on I wondered where they went, and happened to glance in the garbage can, and saw she'd tossed them in there at some point... I never did feel the same way about her after that .

Damn, that was not a nice thing for that teacher to do. She could have at least waited until the school day was over, and after the kids had left, before throwing them away.

^ So you learned at early age to refrain from looking in a woman's garbage

pomegranate

castle celosia

(sorry unable to post pics)

dJJ said:

^ So you learned at early age to refrain from looking in a woman's garbage

I *am* a woman.

And actually at the time I remember it feeling like a huge slap in the face, like I tried to express fondness or affection to someone and they just....threw it away lol.

paintedlady said:

novabrkr said:

[img:$uid]http://www.kolumbus.fi/auroran.koulu/voikukka.jpg[/img:$uid]

Did you know you can eat dandelions from root to petals? Its a great cleanser for the blood and good for asthmatics like me... I like to make tea from the yellow fowerheads. The leaves make a good bitter salad and the roots are good in teas also, though I never tried them.

Look at the sparrows.... they eat the seeds off the dandelion heads after they pop open.

I know that people in Europe used to make "coffee" out of them during the second World War when regular coffee wasn't available. I suppose there isn't much of a difference between the "coffee" and "tea" varieties, ha.

novabrkr said:

paintedlady said:

Did you know you can eat dandelions from root to petals? Its a great cleanser for the blood and good for asthmatics like me... I like to make tea from the yellow fowerheads. The leaves make a good bitter salad and the roots are good in teas also, though I never tried them.

Look at the sparrows.... they eat the seeds off the dandelion heads after they pop open.

I know that people in Europe used to make "coffee" out of them during the second World War when regular coffee wasn't available. I suppose there isn't much of a difference between the "coffee" and "tea" varieties, ha.

i think the roasted dandelion root tea tastes good

Plumeria.... I love the smell of them...in Hawai'i, they grow on almost every tree...

ThruTheEyesOfWonder said:

Plumeria.... I love the smell of them...in Hawai'i, they grow on almost every tree...

I don't have a favorite, they're all beautiful!

SUNFLOWER

BLEEDING HEART

CHERRY BLOSSOM

TIARE

WHITE GINGER

ROSES

CONEFLOWER

GOLDEN POPPY

CORNFLOWER

VIOLET

PEONY

DAHLIA

MUMS

PLUMERIA

HYDRANGEA

HIBISCUS

There, hope that's better.

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omg, resize your photos, you're killing everyones bandwith! :angry:

XxAxX said:

hey that's the one I always post

IamFunkay7 said:

ThruTheEyesOfWonder said:

Plumeria.... I love the smell of them...in Hawai'i, they grow on almost every tree...

are they the same as frangipani?

I got a lei made of them last week at the kava ceremony in Fiji

ZombieKitten said:

IamFunkay7 said:

are they the same as frangipani?

I got a lei made of them last week at the kava ceremony in Fiji

Yup, they're one and the same. Frangipani is the common name for plumeria.

Yeah, they make leis out of them. When I was in Hawai'i last week, they were everywhere. They just made the air thick with perfume...

Wish I could have a plumeria tree growing in my backyard.