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

merlin

merlin

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I have three I particularly associate with childhood:

Michaelmas Daises

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Love in the mist (Nigella) which readily self seed on the terrace here and are growing rapidly now, I love the lacy foliage and the intricate flowers.

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Nasturtiums which I particularly love as they will grow on very poor soil, which we had in our garden when I was a child.

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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 :confused:

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What are your favourites and what do you grow now, or would if you could?
 

I didn't read the OP carefully and failed to see that it specified favorite of childhood, in which case I must pick the pansy. I can vividly remember the early spring tradition of going with my mother to a local nursery to buy a flat of pansies.


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4 O'clocks.. Remember them? My mother had them planted all over the yard and I used to go out and harvest all the black seeds

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I remember loving pansies my mother grew.

I couldn't really pick my favourites now - but I'd say orchid, iris, clematis, aquilegia, magnolia, rhododendron, azaleas, daffodils, and a dozen or so more.

A few from our garden.

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A few of our April flowers

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My grandfather grew Iceland poppies and my dad grew dahlias and gladioli.
These flowers always bring back very warm emotions whenever I see them.

Golden Wattle lifts my spirits because it is in bloom when it is still Winter and it is a sign of warmer weather on the way.

This is the wattle tree outside my bedroom window when it is at its most glorious

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Dame Warrigal said:
My grandfather grew Iceland poppies and my dad grew dahlias and gladioli.
These flowers always bring back very warm emotions whenever I see them.

Golden Wattle lifts my spirits because it is in bloom when it is still Winter and it is a sign of warmer weather on the way.

This is the wattle tree outside my bedroom window when it is at its most glorious

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Yes a gorgeous tree, I looked it up and see its in the acacia family, which I like a lot, though the more exotic ones won't survive here, we have a false acacia Robinia Frisia, which I like but the last couple I planted died after a few years.

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Ameriscot said:
I remember loving pansies my mother grew.

I couldn't really pick my favourites now - but I'd say orchid, iris, clematis, aquilegia, magnolia, rhododendron, azaleas, daffodils, and a dozen or so more.
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I would have all those on my list Annie, the beautiful magnolia stellata variety particularly, flowering on the bare branches in spring and the delicate flowers make it special. The problem is they grow so slowly that if I planted one now by the time it was six feet tall, I would be six feet under.
Its a time of life when fast growing plants seem much more attractive :)

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Gorgeous!

We have a big magnolia tree and a couple of small ones of a different variety. Don't know the names, have to ask DH as he's our gardener.

Really love the Michelmas daisies.
 
Ameriscot said:
Gorgeous!

We have a big magnolia tree and a couple of small ones of a different variety. Don't know the names, have to ask DH as he's our gardener.

Really love the Michelmas daisies.
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The one that is often planted in gardens near me are what we call tulip trees, due to their tulip like flowers

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I remember the delicate scent of Michaelmas daisies, it always brings back memories of my childhood autumns, with leaves and the smell of bonfires and and the slowing down of everything
 
I can't say that I have one favorite flower, I really love them all. Thanks so much for this thread Merlin, the photos here are amazing. As a child I remember liking to see the Hydrangeas very much, especially the blues.


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SeaBreeze said:
I can't say that I have one favorite flower, I really love them all. Thanks so much for this thread Merlin, the photos here are amazing. As a child I remember liking to see the Hydrangeas very much, especially the blues.


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I love hydrangeas SeaBreeze, though not from childhood, never noticed them then. I have bought several as house plants, all blue and I plant them out in the garden eventually. The problem is because of my soil alkalinity they slowly turn a purplish pink. I am watering them with an acid soil liquid feed and vinegar, but everything is so slow so I am getting used to various shades of purple
 
April lilies are so beautiful and calla lilies are so designer decorative and artistic looking.

My mother was a flowerholic - she loved flowers and had everything you can imagine in her garden. She had gorgeous peony bushes that grew very fat and full. Apparently they are considered very auspicious with the feng shui people.

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