What's your favourite flower?

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“Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.” :roll_eyes:😃🤔
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Here’s another yucca in bloom. Yuccas can often go several years between blooms, so we are privileged to witness this one.

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Is it me or does the center of that flower look like the head of a dove?

Reminds me of the Holy Spirit descending during Pentecost like a bird shaped flame 🔥.

The center is the head and the petals are it’s wings of flame. The bottom of the orchid is the tail feathers.
 
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Sarcelle said:
Is it me or does the center of that flower look like the head of a dove?

Reminds me of the Holy Spirit descending during Pentecost like a bird shaped flame 🔥.

The center is the head and the petals are it’s wings of flame. The bottom of the orchid is the tail feathers.
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The Flower of the Holy Spirit .

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The flower of the Holy Spirit, with photos

Here is a little instant inspiration, in the form of a particular type of orchid found in Central and South America. Named “The Flower of the Holy Spirit”, this orchid looks like praying monks before blooming, and then opens into a flower that in many cases looks remarkably like a dove. My wife...
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“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
  • Walt Whitman.
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Lace-like Wild Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare), growing amidst some ivy. It’s considered a weed here, an invasive species, but many parts of it are edible, and it smells like licorice.

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Another one from this morning’s walk, the small white flowers of Carissa, also known as Natal Plum. We had one of these shrubs in the backyard when I was small. It has formidable thorns, and the flowers develop into small bright red berries. Out of an abundance of caution, my parents warned me not to eat the berries, which were tempting for a preschooler, but now I understand they are not toxic.

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It’s considered a weed here, an invasive species, but many parts of it are edible, and it smells like licorice.
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Thinking of licorice , we used to buy licorice sticks and chew them into pulp .

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"In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish’d dove;
In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Little succulent plant with pink flowers

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Spring is advancing quickly here,the plum ,nectarine and peach blossom almost coming through. So much to do in the garden !So little time to do it in !!
Began dividing and relocating asparagus (there’s so much this year! 😮 )
 
This variety of white rose has become very popular here the last ten years or so, and I see it planted all over when I’m out walking. For my grandparents, a successful rose garden was a great accomplishment, as the roses were prone to aphids and scale and always needed dusting with some nasty chemical. These hardy white roses seem impervious to most pests, and were likely cultivated for that quality.

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In the first photo, behind the rose, I see an Agave Attenuata… has it flowered for you yet?
 
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Reminds me of Iceberg Roses - is that the cultivar in your photo?
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I’m not sure. I see them all around the neighborhood but don’t have one myself.
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In the first photo, behind the rose, I see an Agave Attenuata… has it flowered for you yet?
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Those agaves are great drought-resistant border plants. We have a lot of them around my parent’s house. Just pop a cutting in the ground and it starts growing. My parents jokingly called them cabbages. I’ve never seen one of ours bloom yet.
 
“I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”
  • Emma Goldman
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Me too !!!
Like my mum,I love to pick flowers for Our Lady and place them daily beside her image 🙂
 
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