Banner Sponsors
For artists and collectors sponsored by Intercal...your mohair supplier and Johnna's Mohair Store
Jellybelly BearsJared I love DOuble Delight! Ours is just outside our kitchen. You know that the more sun that hits them the more red you get. I love old english roses too, beautiful!! and smell so good 
Swan Valley BearsJared, I wonder if what you had was really an Angel's Trumpet if it smelled bad. Mine had a very pleasant flowery fragrance. I bought it at Long's Drug store and it was about 18 inches tall. I replanted it into a bigger pot and it didn't do very well, so I planted it in the flower bed and it took off. Within the year it was at least 10 feet tall and bloomed like crazy. I had another one in the back yard in a pot that was the prettiest pale pink color but it didn't do as well as the one in the ground. We moved from the SF bay area to the foothills where I can't grow any flowers because of the deer. 
I love the Double Delight too, but my favorite rose is the Chicago Peace. It's huge and yellow and pale pink.
Jellybelly BearsI love the Double Delight too, but my favorite rose is the Chicago Peace. It's huge and yellow and pale pink.
Patty, thats the rose photo I have on the 1st page 
It's my favourite too, the pinks yellows and apricots are a mix of my favourite colours...i love the changes it goes through and the colour blends...wow, isn't it beautiful!!!
I love all flowers and especially wildflowers. Sunflowers and daisies are favorites of mine as are shade loving flowers which I can NOT grow here in scalding hot Chico; things like delphinium, hydrangea, and foxglove which scorch in too much sun.
My absolute favorite flower, though, is the Stargazer Lily. It's strong and beautiful and sophisticated and exotic, all at the same time.
Swan Valley BearsYep, Sarah, that's it. Absolutely gorgeous ! ! !
Shelli, I love hydrangeas too. Have you seen them in Washington state? The soil must be perfect for them there because the colors are so intense; dark blue, purple.
Here's a pic of a bouquet of roses I picked in our yard when we lived in the SF bay area a few years ago. I think there's a Chicago Peace or two in there.
I love flowers but my favourite has to be roses ( the old fashioned English roses.
I have two pale pink rose bushes Queen Mary which are simply beautiful and have such a wonderful fragrance. I also love lilly of the valley.
I have to agree with Kim - I love pansies which I have growing in my window boxes - love
the colours.
Hugs
Carolyn
Jellybelly BearsPatty that photo is gorgeous!!!!!!
Shelli I'm the same here, so many I would love to grow but can't coz of the heat I love foxgloves and hydrangeas! We actually have pansies out now, beginning of winter, and the daffodils will be up soon...spring in winter 
If we want to grow nice bulbs we have to put them in the fridge during the summer and plant out as soon as the weather is cool enough 
I love pansies too, so cheery, like little faces
BruinwerksDefinitely Peonies!
They are so huge (the flowers can be up to 8-10" across) and I guess for me, when they start to bloom, it means summer is really here. Apparently they need cold winters to bloom to their full potential...that's one in our favour!
Cheryl
Flowers come in such wonderful colours, shapes and sizes so a little bit of a toughie this question and there are so many that I like so I reckon I will just name a few - Carnations, Proteas, Bird of Paradise, Orchids, Hibiscus........
Hugs Lyn
Back Road BearsCheryl - those peonies are georgeous!
We were give a plant when we bought our house 3 years ago. I couldn't keep it alive 6 months!
Poppies are another favorite of mine... I just planted some this spring and they are now starting to bloom... a gorgeous deep peachy color! Yum!
Brenda - lupines grow wild here.... we have fields of them... I started some from seed this year... tiny little things... they'll bloom next year I hope... all colors.
Posts: 1,836I'm not a flower gal...the smells get to me big time. I don't like any floral perfumes/scents (at all).
But I do have some simple favorites...all from being a kid and needing to use my imagination in the back yard. I love plain old white daisies....buttercups....johnny jump ups and snapdragons. Snapdragons were instant puppets and the others were woven into chains for decoration and necklaces. I'll still pick a Johnny jump up from a side walk crack...they always look like they could just start talking, they have those little "faces" painted in there 
:hug:
~Chrissi
Bears by Jodi
