rewster
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Originally posted by BarbC:
Bleeding hearts.
You actually like liberals
What's your favorite spring flower?
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You actually like liberals
Sven
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My wife's current spring favorite: Hepatica. I spied it in a roadside ditch driving by at 55mph! I (actually, she) should have a bumper sticker -- WARNING: Wildflower nut on board. I brake at all signs of color!
Hard to pass up the Minnesota state flower -- Pink Ladyslipper, another road ditch favorite.
Hard to pass up the Minnesota state flower -- Pink Ladyslipper, another road ditch favorite.
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Originally posted by CAJUNLAWYER:
Has a nice fragrance and makea a pretty ornamental. Also useful in religious ceremonies
Hey, that's our state flower here in Commifornia. Is that your back yard?
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Mickey D
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The California poppy is now the minority flower here.
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EDITED- duuhhh, a senior moment- when I first posted this, I called them irises....
I have to say my favorite is the jonquils that we first see in the spring. Up north, they are called daffodils, I think.
I know you all think winters in the Southeast are not that tough, and you are right to some degree. BUT, we have humidity that goes VERY high, even when it is at freezing or below, and it hurts. I worked outside a lot of my life, so it was always a welcome sight when the jonquils appeared. They are the first flower up around here, often getting buried by our very few snows or frostbitten badly.
They live forever (or reproduce), so one sees them at old homesites where you can hardly find a foundation stone. I have often paused in my life, when I came upon such a sight, and given thought to some lady, long dead, that planted those jonquils before I was born- perhaps before my parents were born. I bet she longed to see them in the spring, too. I hope she had a good life......
I have to say my favorite is the jonquils that we first see in the spring. Up north, they are called daffodils, I think.
I know you all think winters in the Southeast are not that tough, and you are right to some degree. BUT, we have humidity that goes VERY high, even when it is at freezing or below, and it hurts. I worked outside a lot of my life, so it was always a welcome sight when the jonquils appeared. They are the first flower up around here, often getting buried by our very few snows or frostbitten badly.
They live forever (or reproduce), so one sees them at old homesites where you can hardly find a foundation stone. I have often paused in my life, when I came upon such a sight, and given thought to some lady, long dead, that planted those jonquils before I was born- perhaps before my parents were born. I bet she longed to see them in the spring, too. I hope she had a good life......
f150guy
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cherry blossom
looks much prettier on a group of trees, and even better on the ground when they fall!
DWFAN
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Croakus blooming in the front yard. Tulips, tiger lily, day lily, iris all showing their leaves. Spring is very colorful around here.
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