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If you could have only 1 flower in your garden, what would it be?
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Posted by Danica 6b (danimart@pathcom.com) on Sun, Apr 8, 01 at 20:54
| If you could have only one type of flower in your garden (annual, perennial or biennial), what would it be - and why?
My hands down favorite is mertensia virginica, "Virginia bluebells" - beautiful nodding bells that start out pink and end up being the most gorgeous shade of lavender blue.
What's your favorite? |
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| Garden heliotrope - tall, stands up to wind, heat, rain. Blooms ALL SEASON until frost, and SMELLS HEAVENLY! |
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Ipomoea z7b/8a (My Page) on Mon, Apr 9, 01 at 19:52
| Well, if it would have to be perennial, I'd say columbine, but naturally, if I could pick any plant at all it would be my friend the morning glory. |
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- Posted by
Maria_Perez VA9 (My Page) on Mon, Apr 16, 01 at 13:34
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| Cal Native Matilija Poppy. It would take over the place and I wouldn't have to do any weeding! The huge white crepy flowers are spectacular! |
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| I have to agree with Maria - if I have to choose, it'll be roses. Chris |
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Meghane 7b NC (My Page) on Sat, Apr 21, 01 at 13:55
| Hibiscus. Any and every color of them. Do I get to choose the location of the garden too? Cause I really love tropical hibiscus, but they are only annuals here in zone 7, so I'd love to move to Hawaii to have tropical hibiscus. But the periennal varieties are just fine for here. |
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- Posted by
Palottii IL 4 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 29, 01 at 22:32
| It would have to be a canna outside or a epiphytic cactus in the greenhouse |
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- Posted by
toddb (My Page) on Sun, Apr 29, 01 at 23:24
| I love boltonia snowbank. Nothing can beat it in the early fall. Well....maybe |
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- Posted by
Jayne 6a (My Page) on Mon, Apr 30, 01 at 22:14
| Nasturtiums. They bloom like mad and color your garden and your salad! |
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| Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spectabilis), adults and children alike swoon over mine every time they stop over. I've conveniently placed them so they are the first things I see when i get home from work each day. |
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| Portulaca. Beautiful blooms like multicoloured roses, and I love how they close up at night and when it rains. Mine grow well in the shade, in the sun, between the patio stones, and in the lawn LOL! |
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| Daylilies, without question. |
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- Posted by
Sadie_z5 z5 OH (My Page) on Mon, May 21, 01 at 17:29
| My lavender. It's an old friend that comes back every year, with a scent that carries on the wind. Interesting question. |
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Lilies. All varieties, from lemon, to daylilies, to asiatic
to LA hybreds. Adore them all! |
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| I second the Portulaca. Especially the mix, so you get a different show every week. |
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| Portulaca. just beautiful. |
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| Irises! SO many colors to dazzel the eye & so easy to grow! :) |
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| Sweet peas, naturally. Every year I grow some of my old favourites, and one or two new ones as well. |
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| Salvias, for the (most species that I have) long bloom time and drought tolerance. |
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| This is a very tough question to answer. I guess that it would be Anhemis Tinctoria - Grallagh Gold. But, hostas come in a very close second. |
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| I vote for salvia, too! So many neat shapes and colors! Have you ever seen "Apricot Sunrise" in full bloom? Scrumptious! |
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| If an acceptable answer to this would be "geraniums because there are so many different colors and smells" I would say that. Otherwise, I would have to pick one that smelles good, looks great and attracts butterflies - probably purple butterfly bush. |
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| Daylilies--so many different ones! |
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| Gotta be a salvia - particularly S. coccinea; great all-summer red blossoms - hummingbirds prefer that over the feeder. After one year in this house we've gone from one plant to eight; may have nothing but that next year! CJ |
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| Two natives we have in our garden: Purple scorpionweed! Second, our Wood Lily. |
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| Mine would be Roses first.. then.. secondly the tiny blue flower that I have so far been unable to identify!! I picked it up at a nursery that is far away from me and it was the only plant like it there. Nobody who works there knew it. I will try to take a decent photo and post to see if anyone knows what it is. MG |
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| It would have to be 4 O'clocks for me. It's just a flower that makes me smile and gives me fond memories........and with the way it self seeds, I always have a smile in my garden. Gail in NC |
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| I wouldn't be without my dahlias. Just don't ask me, "If you could have only one dahlia...." |
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- Posted by Evert Finland (My Page) on
Mon, Jul 9, 01 at 18:48
Here is a link that might be useful: My Website
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| This is a really tough question!!! First, Lantana--We are really lucky in Clinton, Ms, a local nurseryman has propagated several different colors and varieties,Sunrise and Sunset. Second, Salvia--Wonderful!!!!!These two and Russian sage look wonderful!!!!! |
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| johnny jump ups! Guaranteed to make you smile! |
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| I have to say daffodils and alas they won't grow here in my subtropical area but I have thousands in KY where I came from when I married...I used to pick them every year and watch for them anxiously when I was a child I have always loved them best of all...bedazzled |
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| Our native Calypso orchids. We are overrun with them but the more the merrier. |
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| It would have to be roses. But not just any roses-- I'm talking about the heavenly fragrant and exquisitely shaped old European once-bloomers like 'Madame Plantier' and 'Königen von Dannemark'. Perfectly hardy, completely healthy, vigorous and wonderful. After my roses, it would have to be my sweet violets (Viola odorata), lilies of the valley (Convallaria majalis) and scented honeysuckles (Lonicera sp.). |
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| Hostas. Since they come in just about every size, leaf shape, and color (other than red), the variety is endless. |
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- Posted by Zena z7 NC (My Page) on
Fri, Jul 20, 01 at 10:56
| White daffodils, the fragrant kind. |
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| It would be the oxypetalum. I love this plant... the tiny aqua marine flowers and milkpods late in season... |
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- Posted by dafla z10 SWFL (My Page) on
Sun, Jul 22, 01 at 20:30
| If I could only have one flower, I would DIE! Anyway, if I could, I would vote for the thing I miss the most from my home in SC - azaleas. So many different colors and sizes. Love the wild ones too. They just aren't the same here in FL. Only a few colors and have to be grow in the shade. Don't bloom like those good old SC ones either. (Heavy sigh) |
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PhoenixFire (Mmm@mmm.com) on Wed, Aug 8, 01 at 22:23
| Mmm...it would have to be one of these three....Lavendar, roses or shiasta daisies (if that is the correct name....they are tiny daisy-like white with yellow centres....they start out white and then as they age they turn pink then purple, then they die. As a result you have a little mass of white, pink and purple daisies as the flowers are always in various stages of ageing. But really....lavendar is pretty handy...roses a close second and the shiasta daisys third. |
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| One plant? First I thought of my gallardia plant blooms forever, and then I went and walked through my flower beds and decided it would be my Helioptis and came in to reply to this foolish question and would have to add snapdragons, Madame Butterfly and Rocket. |
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| Blue hydrangeas! Fond childhood memories of these shrubs...my grandmother had them growing in front of her white wood frame house in woodsy east Texas. I lived in the deserts of west Texas where these plants don't grow. The hydrangea shrubs were always in bloom in early summer when I came to visit my grandmother. Now I'm a grandmother---and have a whole hydrangea hedge growing along my back fence. |
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| Floribuda roses because of the three reblooms and color mass. |
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| Dwarf Dahlias in a wide variety of bright colors and white. They don't stay dwarf very long if fed with 'Schultz' plant food once in awhile and kept watered. Mine are 1 1/2 ft. to 2 feet tall this year and very bushy..have bloomed all summer long, next to Gerberas and the most gorgeous Gaillardia. Best summer garden I've ever had! Many are interplanted with my oriental poppies and bring color when the poppy foliage dies,..and the Dahlias will come back each summer just like the poppies in spring! Yea! |
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| gaillardia "burgundy" June to frost; really red and really floriferous, excellent growth habit 3' non-woody bush. |
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Freesia...and guess what? its starting to come up outside. I cant wait for december to smell that lovely smell....
ahhhh Freesia |
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| sunflowers but Id still try to get others in there ha |
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| Agree with last post - SUNFLOWERS - every shape and size. Who woudln't like a huge vase full? Now with the pollenless varieties its even better!! |
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| Tulips. They come in so many different shapes and colors, and if your lucky, they will get tuip breaking virus and come up with the most beautful patterns of all! |
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Ylang-Ylang;- For its unusual flowers and intoxicating scented blooms.
Supannee |
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| ONE? Just one?! Hmmm...I would then choose HOSTAS for my parents' home in NY...and for here in Central Florida: HIBISCUS!! Good choices? :)
Mark |
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| Hardy geraniums, both 'Johnson's Blue' and plain old bloody cranesbill. Long blooming and also evergreen with great winter leaf color. Who could ask for more? |
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| ONLY ONE?????? It can't be done. I think my favourites are all the woodland flowers of spring: erythronium, bloodroot, trillium, hepatica etc... |
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- Posted by Che_ KY z6 (My Page) on
Sat, Jan 19, 02 at 22:27
I do have many gardens of only one type:
Che |
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Blanket Flower the RED kind. They bloom all summer long with not much water. The only work is taking all finished blooms off so blooms continue all summer long.
Second tall feathery grass all winter long. |
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| One won't work for me. But Penstemons in the sun, Columbines in the shade. |
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| Hydrangeas - all colors - but especially the blue. |
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Roses, lillies, sunflowers, daisy, camellia, sweet william, hydrangea, dogwood, magnolia, . . .
I guess that I can't decide.
Kat |
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| I just revisited this thread, and it occurred to me that it would have been neat to see a photo of each poster's favorite flower growing in their garden. Here's a shot of last year's hydrangeas. I've put ammonium sulphate on them this winter in hopes of a deeper blue.... |
Here is a link that might be useful: Hydrangea
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| The gangly awkward sunflower. I feel such wonderful emotion when I grow something so huge from that little seed! It says to me, "yes, your thumb is green - even if it's only mint green" I love all the staples in my garden, but sunflowers say "you did it!". Saucy |
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| Mexican Hat - Ratibida columnaris! It blooms most of the growing season and is nearly care-free. Fireraven9
Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession. - Shakespeare, Hamlet V,i |
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| Che- You are my hero. Don't tell the other gazillion perennials that I worship daily in my garden but the Daylilies have to get my nod. Of course since gardeners have trouble with plant fidelity the peonies and the baptisia would be included in my 3 part answer... |
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| I salute you for your question. I got all kinds of ideas from the other answers and will incorporate these ideas to have a even more wonderful garden. Thank you so much. And...my favorite all time faithful flower: DANDELIONS! A field or yard full of Dandelions of course!!! Nothing is more beautiful then a dense carpet of Dandelions. I feel like Dorthy from the Wizard of Oz running threw them. : ) |
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no body said purple passion flower???? There georgous!! and smell heavenly!! That or the cardinal vine since the hummingbirds go nuts for it. I'm planting 20 of them all around our 55 acres this year so they don't get into so many fights.
sassy |
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- Posted by Tris z3/4 MN (My Page) on
Tue, May 14, 02 at 9:52
| Poppies for mr oe of the first things to bloom in the spinfg and one of the last in fall and of course daylilies and cosmos and phlox OOOPS ONLY ONE |
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| I second the dandelions, carpets of yellow dandelions. Stay away weed man!!!! christine, toronto |
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| How about Clematis? Normally I'd say roses but clematis would give variety and long bloom time because there are so many types that bloom different times of the year and oh! the seed heads some have are so interesting! |
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| I second the gardenias. Hardy, evergreen and such a sweet, sweet scent!! But technically, that's a shrub. So I still get to pick a flower....hummmm.....let me choose.... probably pinks for their sweet scent and pretty blue foliage. |
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- Posted by phlip Taranaki NZ (My Page) on
Mon, Nov 18, 02 at 4:42
| Oh wow that's a tough question!! There are soooo many but I think if I had to chose one it would be Meconopsis regia. It has scrumptious large very hairy leaves and I just love the formation of the foliage. Wow! Now can I mention the other million plants??? Philippa |
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| If I could have only one it would be black-eyed susans, but I also really love burgundy and goblin gaillardia--even longer blooming than b-e s. Then there are my 4 kinds of coreopsis...Oh..it's so hard to decide. |
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| The full spectrum of Rhododendrons! |
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| Good ol' fashioned blue hydrangea |
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If I could only pick one flower, it would start with the letter D. My picks would be daffodils, day lilies, daisies,
and dahlias.
Chrystal |
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Well I love my roses but since they are a shrub, they don't count.
I love my Snowflake oakleaf hydrangeas but since they are a shrub, they don't count.
I love my decidious azaleas, but since they are a shrub, they don't count.
I love my magnolias but since that is a tree, it doesn't count.
I love my witchhazel but since that is a tree, it doesn't count.
So I guess its my columbine, or maybe the daffodils, oh wait, its my Coral Charm Peony, those toadlilies were refreshing, then there is that one dark foilaged hot pink dahlia I grew from seed...oh, then there are those little yellow dainty flowers on the Tutsan that turn into red berries, then dark purple with the burgandy and green foliage but that is a shrub and that doesn't count... |
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| It would be sweet peas for me. Nothing to beat the delicate look along with the heady fragrance and vast colors! Yep....sweet pea it is! |
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Pee gee hygrangeas. And that is not all paniculatas, but only the common, grandiflora, or plain ol' pee gee. My all time favorite smell in the garden. Why can't they make a perfume that smells this way!
And of course, the dried arrangements last til the next season. #2 is gardenia...ahhh! |
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| Only one.... I Looove roses, but I think I would have to go with Dianthus instead. They smell great, look great, and remind me of home. On the other hand, the question was "in your garden." Now, as for my lawn.... Hepatica, thyme, mint, yarrow, oregano, catnip, prickly-pear, yucca, native wildflowers... Never said the LAWN had to be only grass! Besides, it would make a nice contrast to my neighbors mini-wanna-be-golfcourses! |
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| Peony! Heart-stoppingly beautiful blooms (I love my "Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt") and the wonderful "dear rosy snouts" of emerging shoots in spring (thank you, Gertrude Jeckyll for that image); artfully dissected foliage all summer with great fall color. |
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| Salvias and Daylilies and Columbines and....... Sorry I got carried away. |
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Roses, I have a beautiful Mme Alfred Carriere that has survived against all the odds and two ruby red, highly fragrant bushes that were here when I moved in so I have no idea what they are, but they're glorious! Also, Helichrysum. My house is full of bunches of these small jewel-like flowers hanging from light fittings and edging the top of my kitchen cupboards, they're easy to grow and I love them!!
Lisa |
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| Peonies. THAT’S a scent I’d wear everyday! I just wish they lasted longer, but maybe I can extend the bloom period with many varieties… So far I have my great-grandmother’s unnamed 10 pink ones, that have traveled from her house to my parents’ house to my house. I also have bunches of Festiva Maximas, a bunch of el-cheapo unnamed ones from White Flower Farms, and last year I got 6 "Silver Dawn" peonies. Have two tree peonies, but for some reason, they have never taken off like the others. Peony season is my idea of paradise… |
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| I can't choose, but it would be a toss up between orange blossoms, gardenias or frangipani, all of which I have growing out there and don't know how I would have just choose one of them! |
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| Bush daisies. They are so generous with their blooms and are so easy to grow. |
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Have you people even ever seen a Camellia Japonica??
Maybe not the right cultivar!? I'd would tear up 100 bushes of roses to plant ONE Camellia. hehehe |
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| Sacred Lotus.....They are worth growing for their magnificent leaves alone...but when they BLOOM....Oh my goodness...they will take your breath away!!....Oh there is no way I could only have one though:)...I would HAVE to squeeze in the Climbing Iceberg Rose(a Clean White floribunda, sometimes with the palest blush of pink)or Climbing New Dawn(Pale Pink), together with a Gorgeous Blue variety of Clematis winding its way through it(Such as The President, Ramona,General Sikorski,Mrs Cholmondley, or Perle d'Azure)...I would have to sneak in the Old garden rose garden, and some Helleborus growing happily along with the violas..I guess I did not stay on topic, but to me, Flowers and plants are some of Gods most miraculous calling cards....its too hard to only pick one!!!!...haha....I am SO excited that spring is just round the corner...take care all!...GardenLove |
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| I love all flowers, but I simply cannot imagine a southern garden without azaleas. |
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| This is much too difficult to pick just one...LOL...but I will...Hosta |
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| B L E E D I N G H E A R T ........just because they are the most amazing bloom I have ever seen......and mine are beaking ground as I type this. |
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| Oriental lilies; they are so interesting looking and the smell is just hypnotic! |
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| jacob cline monarda gets my vote |
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| Only ONE? That's just not possible -- roses, peonies, clematis, and chrysanthemums, if I absolutely have to narrow it down. Add scabiosa for its non-stop, all summer blooming. |
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| Dianthus with the evergreen/blue gray foliage that forms a mat and looks great year round. Sue |
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| A daylily called Gem. Steve in Baltimore |
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| Interesting question...mainly because my 2 picks I don't even have! It would either be Morning Glories or Plumeria. Me thinks I need to work on that! haha |
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| Phlox of most any tall variety but my fav is 'Nora Leigh' for its vareigated foliage and wonderful fragrance. 2nd choice would be Oxalis (Burgandy Shamrock with pink flower) |
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| BLUE EYED DORAS WOULD DO JUST FINE ha ha ha |
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- Posted by phylrae z5a/centralNYS (My Page) on
Sat, Mar 25, 06 at 19:02
| Roses/Oriental & Orienpet lilies/Spuria & Siberian Iris/Crazy Daisies/Peonies/Bleeding Hearts/Lupines/Double Daffs/Double Sunflowers/Rudbeckias & Zinnias Like Lay's potato chips, nobody can have just one! :0) Phyl |
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| I would choose which ever plant that would drive out my creeping charlie! |
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| It would be Hibiscus- Syriacus- Rose of Sharon 'Blue Bird' |
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| Feverfew. I know, it's really an herb, but I just LOVE it! :) Arum |
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| Daffodils because they ask so little, start blooming here in February (12/30 this freak winter) and go on and on until mid May. Pest proof, and multipliers. They give me an excuse to tour to pick, and deadhead and admire every day. Nice also as I lose the energy to garden. |
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| Its a toss up between irises and roses. I love them both. I think i will have to go irises though. Wait, no, roses. irises. roses. irises. roses. I dont know. |
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| With a name of RoseClaire....you guess! |
RE: If you could have only 1 flower in your garden, what would it
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| Anemonella thalictroides pink form. I love the burgundy emerging foliage, the perfect little flowers, the columbine-like leaves, the neat seed heads. My only complaint is that they die back towards the end of summer. I just can't have enough of them. The double forms are great too. |
RE: If you could have only 1 flower in your garden, what would it
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| If shrubs count, it would have to be lilacs. If it has to be a flower, I'd say lily of the valley. But there are so many I like! There's at least half a dozen that I wouldn't want to cross off my list: roses, peonies, pansies, irises, daffodils, tulips, crocuses.... |
RE: If you could have only 1 flower in your garden, what would it
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| How am I supposed to choose one after reading all of your posts?? Not Possible!! |
RE: If you could have only 1 flower in your garden, what would it
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| SUNFLOWERS!!!! and wild pholx. Sorry, I had to do both those. I just love them both so much!!! : ) |
RE: If you could have only 1 flower in your garden, what would it
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| For me it has to be baptisia australis - brilliant twelve inch spikes filled with light and iary floiage and then amazing pea spaped blooms that dance in the gentle breezes of spring. Even the black pods of the seeds are attractive. |
RE: If you could have only 1 flower in your garden, what would it
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| It changes every season. Today - Japanese Anemone. |
RE: If you could have only 1 flower in your garden, what would it
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| Gladiolas!!!!!!!!!! They obviously are my favorites. |
RE: If you could have only 1 flower in your garden, what would it
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| Lonicera - a vigorous (to the point of invasive) plant, but not at all fussy, takes dramatic shearing and pops back, and I will never tire of the fragrance. I keep it in bounds by growing it as a standard, which has the extra advantage of keeping the flowers at a convenient height for sniffing. |
RE: If you could have only 1 flower in your garden, what would it
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Banana flowers, Uh Ohh, wait..., do they count?
Moonflowers, oh, right, they're only at night!
how bout' Sunflowers? No too tall.
ummm daylilies? no, too much deadheading.
ummm I cant pick!!!!! |
RE: If you could have only 1 flower in your garden, what would it
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| irises,heavenly blue morning glories,colombines,camellias.that's the least i can narrow it down to.and johnny jump ups,they are such perfect little flowers. |
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