What's your favourite flower?

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I love cyclamen THT, 😃 Mum has some in pots given to her as gifts over the years…they’ve dropped seeds that have grown io nice corms and so we have lots of little plants this year to give away.
I think in town I’ve been seeing early camellias …ill have to get up closer to make sure 🙂
 
Having spent a few days in Liverpool , I took the opportunity to visit the remarkable Port Sunlight after which the Port Sunlight Rose is named .

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I love these type of roses.

I bought some soap and lotion from Crabtree & Evelyn, rose water scent.

The scent reminded me of lychees.
 
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I agree. It is so lovely. 🙂

It’s actually hard for me to pick a favorite. I’m highly allergic to almost all pollen… and yet I love love love flowers.
 
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When I was a little’un the house at the top of the street had a garden full of cornflowers . They attracted bees , so we would wait until the bees settled on the cornflowers before placing jam jars over them to capture the bees .

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That’s a nice memory 🙂
I really hope the seedlings that have come up here survive,sometimes they have a disease or something and grow a bit twisty 🤔
I’ve planted some in my parents garden too Rob.
The jonquil and daffodils have shot up ,but it will be about late July perhaps before the jonquils flower.
I noticed the woodbine is getting flower buds 😃
 
Looking for something associated with Pentecost I found this which I think is already on here somewhere . It’s quite something . 😄

An orchid species called “Flower of the Holy Spirit” starts blooming during Pentecost each year. Before it blooms, the flower looks like praying saints. When the flower blooms, it looks like a flying dove.

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Some flowers that caught my eye on my walk this morning
Not sure what kind these are

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But these I know are nasturtiums. I understand they’re edible. We can serve them with those big mushrooms @Greenfields has been collecting 😁

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I’ve had those nasturtiums in salads. They’re not the main ingredient but those with lettuce, basil and papaya seed dressing make an excellent salad. They have a nice peppery taste.
 
Although it’s now Winter here there are roses still blooming,camellias,plumbago,Boganville ,and some varieties of wattle and eucalypts I notice on drives.
Lavender,violets and marigold ,some salvias and African daisies are about all I have flowering at the moment,but thank God for them 🙂
The local shire has pruned its roses in the little city although they still had leaves and flowers.I was too shy to stop and ask for pieces 🙃
 
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there are roses still blooming,
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Now that you mention it, here are my roses blooming 😄. I am surprised that it is doing so well. It was a gift in a pot that someone gave my niece. We kept it in a window box in the kitchen for a while, and then I planted it in the shallow flower box outside the house two or three years ago.

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Every Ascension Day in the village of Bisley in Gloucestershire they have the Dressing of the Wells .

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It’s cheering to know that these quaint customs still take place .
 
Luckily, the aphids haven’t found it yet. Yes. it is surprisingly hardy, since other plants don’t last long in those flower boxes. I haven’t noticed a fragrance.
 
I used to get my children to sniff flowers so I wouldn’t be bobbing up and down all the time when we walked through gardens and along paths by houses 😅
 
Roses without scent are a disappointment to be honest.

It’s like taking a bath during a cold winter’s night only to find out that the water isn’t hot enough.
 
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I’m not sure what kind of flower these are, but I notice them whenever I walk by.

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