What are your favourite garden flowers, either ones you grow admire or associate with childhood?

Shalimar said:
Please, what is a gopher turtle?
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It is a large tortoise...that burrows into a hole. They cannot reproduce until they are around 25 years of age and live to be around a 100. I cannot tell is my friend is a male or female. Civilization has forced them out of most of the US. The only ones remaining are supposedly in sandy Florida.
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Ameriscot said:
They sound so lovely. Wish you could share the pics. I'm guessing you don't have an android or iphone?
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My cell takes pictures...but, cannot get them off the phone. Perhaps because I only have a prepaid service. Just have a cell for emergencies. So love everyone's beautiful pictures. All so lovely. AM...to live so near water and still have all your wonderful flowers....you are so blessed. Do you sit outside to have your morning coffee and just breath in all the beauty surrounding you?
 
ndynt said:
My cell takes pictures...but, cannot get them off the phone. Perhaps because I only have a prepaid service. Just have a cell for emergencies. So love everyone's beautiful pictures. All so lovely. AM...to live so near water and still have all your wonderful flowers....you are so blessed. Do you sit outside to have your morning coffee and just breath in all the beauty surrounding you?
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Hmmm...there must be a way to get them off, otherwise what's the point of it being able to take photos?

Don't sit outside in the morning as it's rarely warm enough to do so. Sometimes it's pleasant by 9 am which is a good time to take photos of the flowers. We have breakfast in bed though and enjoy the view of the water out the windows.
 
Flowers that remind me of childhood are....... Bluebells (in the woods)
Michaelmas daisies in the garden, also London Pride, and Johnsons Blue hardy geraniums and Sweet Williams.
harebells (on the moors)
Also in the garden,pale pink rambling roses and lilac trees.
 
AprilT said:
Sea, I don't remember if it was Hydrendias or marigolds, but, as a teen, I had several neighbors that had the most beautiful big colorful flowers and I always love walking past their yards because the aroma was so glorious.
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Marigolds are much smaller April, but they're pretty too and easy to grow.


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SeaBreeze said:
Marigolds are much smaller April, but they're pretty too and easy to grow.


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I've tried growing marigolds from seed, never once have I gotten past just a few leaves. :( But then, it's difficult to grow many types of flora here in my area, while others thrive. I'm not much of a green thumb, but, I did try my hand at patio gardening for a while, only thing I had any really great luck with was basil and somewhat with green beans, my lettuce always seem to bolt, forget the tomatoes.
 
I sort of like plain old yellow chrysanthemums for two reasons. My mother planted them all around the front of our house where I grew up and they lasted for years, and they bloom in the fall after most everything else is gone, so the yellow cheers you up when summer is over. I've not had much luck with them. The new ones only seem to last a few years, and have smaller blossoms. Maybe it's the clay soil here. Or maybe I should stop shopping at the box stores and go to a nursery.

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"My father grew salvias which I never liked, still don't, but he planted them every year in neat single rows, which I think that generation often did for some reason, all very orderly"

I grow a lot of them because they attract hummingbirds & honey bees.
 
We had a lot of marigolds in our garden when I was very little. They don't seem to be popular anymore.
My garden in Australia had Bird of Paradise and Gardenias growing abundantly. It was the only time in my life that plants didn't croak on me. Having an automated watering system may have helped.
 
RadishRose said:
Childhood favorites
lilacs and marigolds.

Others
peony, hydrangea, iris among many others.
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Love peonies, lilacs and iris too .. used to get prize iris from hubby's late aunt & uncle's garden. We also had lilacs in our backyard when we lived in Niagara Falls. The fragrance was beautiful.
 
I like iris is the spring.....zinnias in the summer, they do well in the scorching heat.
I've just discovered thrift roses and I love them...I planted white ones this spring and they have had bloomed profusely ever since they were planted.

As for flowers of my childhood,,,,,,I remember picking honeysuckle flowers and sucking the sweet nectar out of them, I remember the mimosa trees with their lacey blooms....mimosa trees, you hardly ever see them now and I remember the beautiful iris by the rabbit pens in my grandmother's yard.
 
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This is my wife's memorial flower garden I have out front. She loved to plant & take care of the flowers out there so Now I do it in remembrance of her.

I should say there are two toilets in there. When she got sick with cancer I had to retrofit all bathrooms with HiRISE toilets. I ask her what should I do with them. Jokingly she said put them in my flower bed. So I did & planted flowers in them.

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