What's your favourite flower?

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Here’s the weed that’s common here, I think it came from South Africa…Cape weed.
Do you have it in the states I wonder ? And in England?
At least animals do eat it.
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Do they get invasive? I guess the deer might eat them!
 
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Very.There are paddocks of it.There’s some patches in my gardening mow over it but should really spray it early spring .It dies of soon, but leaves a lot of seed.
Horses ,cows and sheep eat it so I’m sure your deer would 🙂
 
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Rob, you would know well the honeysuckle that grows wild in the hedgerows in Ireland and and England etc…I have some that have the same beautiful scent
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I can remember a neighbour , Bob from Northern ireland arguing with his wife May about fuschias . Bob insisted that fuschias were called honeysuckle .

May said to me , " Trust the Irish ! " 😄

Anyway honeysuckle - - - - - - - -

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I think to eat parts of honeysuckle is poisonous, but as kids we would pluck a flower and suck out the nectar from the end where flower joins stem…it was very sweet.I think that might be where the name came from ?i haven’t googled that yet 🙂
Fusias also grow wild in hedgerows over there, so perhaps that’s how Bob could have confused them I’m thinking.
 
I stopped by our local Home Depot yesterday, and took a hasty photo of the rows of flowers in the garden center. No matter the time of year, it always seems to be Spring there, with flowers always in full bloom.

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What a variety!
I wonder if they are cyclamen on the next bench across,in the red,purple, pink and white?Ours are still flowering at the moment over here,but will dry off soon maybe.
 
This sort of resembles a variety of Black-Eyed Susan, but I have not seen this in my state.
 
The Jasmine is really starting to take off .
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Lilly of the Valley.From the garden of a family friend .
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I’ve never seen honeysuckle growing wild in England but it is a common plant in private gardens. There are a few different varieties, we have a common yellow one which is quite nice but years ago we lived elsewhere and there was a beautiful pinkish white one which had a very strong scent in the evenings.
 
Freesias. I grew some years ago in my conservatory and the scent was heavenly.
 
This is my hydrangea right now, autumn colours!
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To the left is a redoubtable tomato plant I bought from a monastery for forty pence and is still growing!
 
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