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April showers will bring May flowers. What is/are your favorite flower/flowers? Mine are sunflowers.🌻 (Original Post) debm55 Monday OP
Daisies. a kennedy Monday #1
Thank you for sharing daisies with us, a kennedy. debm55 Monday #4
Roses 🌹 anciano Monday #2
thank you very much, anciano. for sharing the lovely rose.🌹 debm55 Monday #5
Some roses - I guess the tea kind rather bore me BUT seen many beautiful ones at the Botanical Gardens. .. electric_blue68 Yesterday #16
April Showers bring grass, and lots of it in Maine. OAITW r.2.0 Monday #3
Thank you OAITW r.2.0. Here in Pittsburgh we have been mowing every week. I was out taking the dog out and it is high debm55 Monday #6
Disabled my riding lawnmwer today....so push mowing my 3 acres of lawn by hand now. Freakin' great. OAITW r.2.0 Monday #7
Oh no, I'm so sorry that happened to you debm55 Monday #12
That's life debm55. OAITW r.2.0 Monday #13
I love lilies of the valley and lilacs Grim Chieftain Monday #8
Those would by next two favorites. Thank you Grim Chieftain.🌼 debm55 Yesterday #24
Peonies bloom here on June 7. Frasier Balzov Monday #9
🪷Lovely flowers. Thank you for sharing with us, Frasier Balzov. debm55 Yesterday #23
I don't know where you are, but peonies do not grow well here in Ft Worth yellowdogintexas Yesterday #31
Can't pick just one - I love daffodils, pansies... 3catwoman3 Monday #10
Wow what a selection, 3catwoman3.🪷 debm55 Yesterday #22
Purple Cone Flowers Bayard Monday #11
That sounds beautiful. Thank you, Bayard.💐 debm55 Yesterday #21
Carnations. LoisB Yesterday #14
Thank you very much, LoisB.🪷 debm55 Yesterday #20
Peonies! Later...at the Botanical Gardens (has to warm up more) - Lotuses! electric_blue68 Yesterday #15
Thank you very much for sharing with us, electric_blue68.💐 debm55 Yesterday #19
So many u4ic Yesterday #17
Thank you very much , u4ic for sharing your favorites.🌹 debm55 Yesterday #18
Tulips. applegrove Yesterday #25
Bluebonnets. cloudbase Yesterday #26
Probably Lilacs for the smell, Columbine and Indian Paint for the color and their wild nature. Bristlecone Yesterday #27
Rhododendrons CanonRay Yesterday #28
I love the smell of lilacs and hyacinths MIButterfly Yesterday #29
The Sterling Silver variety of rose. Aristus Yesterday #30
Iris are my favorites, even though they only bloom for a short period in the spring yellowdogintexas Yesterday #32
Irises, roses and peonies Wicked Blue 19 hrs ago #33
I like all flowers, but for different reasons. Figarosmom 16 hrs ago #34
Then You Would Have Loved Eastern Hungary ProfessorGAC 3 hrs ago #35

electric_blue68

(27,326 posts)
16. Some roses - I guess the tea kind rather bore me BUT seen many beautiful ones at the Botanical Gardens. ..
Tue May 19, 2026, 01:38 AM
Yesterday

In one of my nabes we a had a climber around the other side of the block. 🩷

I loved them on the arched trelises at the BGs.

OAITW r.2.0

(32,606 posts)
3. April Showers bring grass, and lots of it in Maine.
Mon May 18, 2026, 09:29 PM
Monday

Freaking grass goes nutz up here all of May. My lawns really want to be fields. Should have mowed a week ago. Will be mowing early next week....again.

debm55

(61,763 posts)
6. Thank you OAITW r.2.0. Here in Pittsburgh we have been mowing every week. I was out taking the dog out and it is high
Mon May 18, 2026, 10:19 PM
Monday

and a mess. However, It is supposed to rain the next three days.

OAITW r.2.0

(32,606 posts)
7. Disabled my riding lawnmwer today....so push mowing my 3 acres of lawn by hand now. Freakin' great.
Mon May 18, 2026, 10:23 PM
Monday

OAITW r.2.0

(32,606 posts)
13. That's life debm55.
Mon May 18, 2026, 11:34 PM
Monday

Hey. I have a sister born in 1955. She was teacher of the year in Maine sometime ago. Life goes on - Obladi Obladah.

yellowdogintexas

(23,763 posts)
31. I don't know where you are, but peonies do not grow well here in Ft Worth
Tue May 19, 2026, 05:06 PM
Yesterday

Our house in Evansville came with 3 lovely peony plants. I miss seeing them.

3catwoman3

(29,808 posts)
10. Can't pick just one - I love daffodils, pansies...
Mon May 18, 2026, 10:42 PM
Monday

...Gerbera daisies, lilies of the valley, bleeding hearts, geraniums, violets, hyacinths, lilacs, moss roses, begonias, and, although not a flower, coleus plants.

Bayard

(30,283 posts)
11. Purple Cone Flowers
Mon May 18, 2026, 11:09 PM
Monday

They're just starting to bud here now. I have them in a wildflower bed in my garden, along with blue Bachelor Buttons, Blackeyed Susans, and not-so-wild, Hollyhocks.

electric_blue68

(27,326 posts)
15. Peonies! Later...at the Botanical Gardens (has to warm up more) - Lotuses!
Tue May 19, 2026, 01:31 AM
Yesterday

I really love plenty of flowers, but these are my most favorites. 🤔 Hydrangeas probably are my 3rd favorite .or maybe hibicus are and hydrangeas 4th.

u4ic

(17,135 posts)
17. So many
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:06 AM
Yesterday

But top tier are gladiolus, lilacs, sunflowers, roses, lilies and lily of the valley.

Bristlecone

(11,189 posts)
27. Probably Lilacs for the smell, Columbine and Indian Paint for the color and their wild nature.
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:41 PM
Yesterday

MIButterfly

(3,144 posts)
29. I love the smell of lilacs and hyacinths
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:56 PM
Yesterday

I also like hydrangeas.

But my absolute favorite flowers to have in pots are begonias and New Guinea impatiens because they are so pretty and low-maintenance.

Aristus

(72,525 posts)
30. The Sterling Silver variety of rose.
Tue May 19, 2026, 03:14 PM
Yesterday

It isn't really silver. It's a very pale lavender. But it's beautiful. You don't see it around much, because it's very difficult to cultivate. That gives it rarity value, as well.

yellowdogintexas

(23,763 posts)
32. Iris are my favorites, even though they only bloom for a short period in the spring
Tue May 19, 2026, 05:10 PM
Yesterday

I would love a variety which would bloom all summer. There are reblooming iris but they do not do well here because our summers are too hot and too long.

I wish daffodils would last longer too.

Figarosmom

(13,404 posts)
34. I like all flowers, but for different reasons.
Wed May 20, 2026, 02:30 AM
16 hrs ago

But the only flower I insist on for formal occasions is the Lily of the Valley. Had them all over the church and in my bouquet for my wedding ( got married in May just because that is the time of year for them).

I also like Roses and Dalhias.

ProfessorGAC

(77,290 posts)
35. Then You Would Have Loved Eastern Hungary
Wed May 20, 2026, 02:49 PM
3 hrs ago

And hour & a half to 2 hours southeast of Budapest, I visited an edible oil processing plant that was almost exclusively sunflower oil.
The squeezed the seeds for oil, the ground the rest for livestock feed.
For the last 25 miles or so, the fields were sunflowers for as far as the eye could see in every direction.
All we could see was yellow!
As to your question, I think roses, but I have liked snapdragons since I was a little kid.

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