Bird of Paradise - just a simple gorgous flower with all the vibrant colors.
C'mon gang - the most beautiful flower is the daffodil!
You CAN'T help but smile when you see their bright yellow blooms chasing away the gloom of winter!
And I have a passion for those folks who naturalize them all over their yard or pasture - it takes your breath away.
Well, I love all sorts of flowers, so choosing a favorite is hard. If someone is giving me flowers, I love yellow roses or a bouquet of tulips. For years I mostly had a brown thumb but I admire others' gardens - especially Irises. However, when we bought our most recent house there were lots of flowers planted, and the only flower that grows and looks beautiful despite my lack of gardening skills are Day Lilies. I have them growing in several colors, but this is my favorite one.
It makes me sad that the flowers don't last longer, but they are beautiful when they are here!
(You can click on the picture to see the full photo. . . I can't get it formatted to fit in the blog view fully!)
Looking through the various entries for this contest, I thought I could easily pick my favorite flower, but then I would go "Oh, but I love that one too!" Any flower, I think, is more than worthy of becoming a favorite. So my entry is a sentimental favorite. My family has for many years planted the simple sweet pea in our various gardens every spring. Their abundant flowering, always made them a favorite picking flower and who doesn’t love their "sweet" scent. My father, being a child of the depression, would harvest the seed pods and sow them the following year. Over time, his sweet pea patch was overtaken with purple blooms. Although it was probably a more-dominant and hardy seed, I couldn’t help but tease him that he had purple dirt. He even tried buying new seed, but purple always seemed to prevail. My father passed away a couple of years ago, and we miss him dearly. But it is always a good day when the sweet peas start to bloom... and still there are always more purple than any other color. It may even be that one day we plant only the purple seeds to pay tribute to Dad and his "purple dirt."
It did it twice, sorry! Maybe soon I'll be able to post finished socks on here!
And just because I hate it when people delete stuff before I can see it, I'll leave the picture on here until someone asks me to remove it. I can't decide if it's a cute baby or not....
What do you think about my little new baby Baby?
MakeMeBabies.com - What will your baby look like?
Umm, sorry about that to anyone who saw the baby picture.... it posted to the wrong blog and I'm not sure how to delete the post entirely.
For as long as I can remember the Pansy has been my favorite flower. I love that the blooms come in many different colors and they make a perfect tiny bouquet. I also LOVE that they can be planted in the fall and then survive a mild winter to bloom again in the spring. The perfect lazy gardener's flower. :)
I have several favourite flowers (what's not to like about flowers).... daisies, echinacea, peonies (I LOVE peonies) and so many more but I have to say that one of my true loves is the Rugosa Rose. We have several bushes we started from seedlings and they are wonderful for so many reasons.
Living in a Canadian zone 4A these babies are hearty and thrive despite wind, snow, spells of no rain, too much rain, my son Nick's multiple attempts to mow them down with the riding lawnmower.
The flowers are delicate, beautiful, plentiful and bloom more than once. The fragance of the flowers is sublime - there is a purity to the scent of the rugosa never quite captured in any rose fragrance I have ever smelled. The bushes grow well and the leaves are a beautiful dark and shiny green so it looks wonderful even when there are no roses to behold.
Besides being hearty and aesthetically pleasing, the rugosa rose is incredibly giving. The petals can be used for jelly....and it is sooooo delicious. They can also be used for pot-pourri. After the summer, the rosehips can be harvested and used for tea that is both flavourful and full of Vitamin C, iron and antioxidants, as well as jelly, marmalade and even mead.
I sure do love my Rugosa Roses.
I love flowers, all flowers really.
And their names hint at their rich and mysterious pasts --The lily is my absolute favorite flower. There are a lot of varieties of lily and I have yet to see one I don't like. Of course I had a peace lily with a beta fish until the fishy died, but the flower never bloomed. I love the smell of lilacs too
Imagine my surprise when I opened my sock club kit and not only did it have my favorite flower but also one of my very favorite sock yarns! That is what I call "providence"!
The Cherry Blossom Tree produces the most delicate flower yet stems from a strong and sturdy tree, in so many different varieties! There is a very long and rich history of the Cherry Blossom tree seated very deep in US history as well as Japan and has reached out across other countries. Cherry Trees embody culture, history and goodwill.
Since I was a child I have always had a fascination with this gentle flower. I have many tea pots with the flower on it. Cherry Blossom Bonsai Tree sitting next to my desk at home! I'm not quite sure where or how I became so enamored with this flower as I am from Texas and it is not usually found in that area... but it made its way into my world, I think it would be so wonderful to have a lane lined with this spectacular tree. What a site that would be? Someday...
Druanna
OOOOOOOO-aaahhhhhhhh How wonderfully beautiful! I'm talking about the blossomly awesome sock club shipment I received today. I don't know how you do it...but I love my sock club shipments.
Tulips are my favorite flowers. I have had the wonderful experience of traveling to Holland and enjoying the fields upon fields of tulips. What a sight to behold. It is my reminder that after Winter, Spring is coming and gives me a sense of being refreshed and renewed along with the rest of nature.
Tulips
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
Genus: Tulipa
Surprisingly, the tulip did not originate in Holland but in the Ottoman Empire and is indigenous to Turkey and other parts of Central Asia.
I love them because they are beatiful, come in so many interesting colors and varieties and almost everyone can recognize it when they see it. Classy, sassy, cool, and calming.
My favorite flowers are lilacs. Everytime I see or smell them they bring back memories of living with my grandparents when I was young. My Mam had huge old fashioned lilac bushes scattered all over the yard and, when the wind blew, you could smell them no matter where you were in the house. Happy memories. :)
Gladiolas are my favorite flower. They remind me of my mom. She liked to have them fresh on the table and I loved to count the blooms and anticipate the blooms opening all the way up the top of the stem. I love them in every color, from the vibrant purples to the soft coral pastels like this one.
My favorite flower is also the hydrangea. I love them in all colors, all forms and varieties. I first took notice of them when I spent a year studying in England during college. English gardens are infamous for a reason, and hydrangea bushes abound everywhere you look! I love the fact that the flower itself tends to be big, puffy and dense, yet when you look at the individual petals, they are so sweet. And the colors range from vivid, bright blooms to subtle shaded blossoms. I have never managed to keep one alive for long. Maybe it's the Houston heat that does them in. I may have to relocate one day, just so that I can have a hydrangea garden.
I'm patiently waiting for the new shipment... In the meantime, I finished up the August socks!
I can't wait to see what's in the October package!
My favorite flower is the gerbera daisy. These flowers inspire me to wear my personality on the outside, by being bold, and happy and full of laughter. The colors are vibrant and intense, the way all people should be. I don't know if it is coincidence or not, but this became my favorite flower the same time I learned to love myself for exactly who I am: Loud and vivid!
My favorite flower is the peony (unfortunately, I don't have a picture). I just love the color and the fullness of the bloom, as well as the fragrance. I have a friend who has a fragrant old hybrid peony growing in his yard. Way back in June 1994, when I was stuck inside all day studying for the bar exam, he brought me a bouquet in a vase made from a cut-off milk carton that I put on my desk. I still can't believe how much that bouquet lifted my spirits!
My favorite flower is the Dogwood. I am from Virginia and there are lots of them around. The first house I lived in was on Dogwood Lane. I like both the pink and the white varieties. They remind me of home.
I have enjoyed being in the club this year so much! I am looking forward to the 2009 club!!!
Kelly N.
I finally finished a pair of club socks! Yay! Here are my Dog Days socks.
I loved the construction with the strip! It enabled me to get a super perfect fit by adding additional stitches where I needed them so that it was snug but not too taut anywhere. I would totally make this pattern again, but I'd skip the flower lace cuff and do something simpler. I don't think you get much bang for your buck because you can't really see the pattern in the yarn.
Thanks, Kristi & Woolgirl!
