Think of a world without any flowers

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Sarcelle said:
I love big red zinnias. Hummingbirds prefer the red ones over the other colors.

I usually have a bunch of cut zinnias in a pitcher on my kitchen table.

Watch out for Japanese beetles. They like to eat the zinnias.
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So do deer. I can’t get Zinnias to grow, anyway.
 
I devoted a couple of seasons digging out loose bulbs scattered. As soon as the shoots would appear .They didn’t grow out there again. But it was one by one…
I then made an enclosure to plant and surround invasive bulbs( about three meters diameter). It is a thick type of relatively flexible tin I could hammer very deep ( as deep as a bulb would go)into the ground making a circle. I planted the bulbs there.They grew and multiplied but none has left the enclosure for three years at least.
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Really?? Your deer ate the zinnias?
Ughhh. They didn’t eat mine, but now I will worry! 🤔
 
The first flower I recall helping to blossom was an iris . It was about 1958 and I had started to get to work on the back garden . I put some iris bulbs in the first bed I had tackled and up came this beautiful flower . I did it mainly for the benefit of my grandmother who had had a stroke , and I thought that sitting out the back among some flowers might cheer her up . It did . So thank God for the iris .

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Greenfields said:
Just found this lovely thread 🙂
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This is a Sunflower,mixed packet “shades of bronze” 🙂 here’s more still growing.They have multiple heads and are great for cutting and bringing indoors.
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The teddy bear sunflower. Yes, it’s really called the teddy bear sunflower.

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For those that don’t know what this is … it is a Lantana Bush …

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I am familiar with Lantana – we had a bush growing in our yard when I was a kid in a very rural area of southern California. I understand its flowers are toxic, and maybe the rest of the plant, as well.
 
My mom had 3 or 4 azalea bushes. In my part of southeastern PA, it seems azaleas and forsythias rule. Since it’s February, they’re not in bloom yet. 😞
 
One of my aunts (my dad’s sister) had honeysuckle bushes at her house on Lake Nuangola. We used to actually suck on the honeysuckle. Years later I found out you’re not supposed to do that.
 
Is the nectar toxic?

I used to suck the nectar of hibiscus 🌺 flowers.

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