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Mine is Queen Anne’s Lace

Roses and Rose of Sharon, the only ones that I can identify. (seriously)
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I like tulips.

We're cultivating Queen Anne's Lace around here. Being that it's historically been treated more as a weed than a flower, it's been hardy enough to survive the horrid heat wave.

Queen Anne’s Lace is indeed a native wildflower

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I like peonies.

whippoorwill wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 6:50 pm Queen Anne’s Lace is indeed a native wildflower

It gets a shoutout in line two of perhaps my favorite Peter Case song. It's one of those songs that owns me from the first couplet.

　　On the hills outside of town, there's a hiding place
　　Where the green fields sway with lavender, mustard, and Queen Anne's lace

When you get the first two lines right in a song, you can go anywhere with it.

I like sunflowers.

The deer and rabbits have destroyed by backyard garden this year. I did some research about what flowers the rascals don't eat. So I've been planting lavender and foxglove and a few others.

Any purple or black flower. And yes, there are black flowers.

I have some black petunias

I love flowers that attract birds. Columbines are great; the hummingbirds love them.

I love columbines!
They come in awesome colors.

I just remembered we had a really pretty one back by the woods that I want to get some seeds from so thanks metirish!

I don't think I have a favorite flower. They're all nice I guess

Fman99 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 8:58 am I don't think I have a favorite flower. They're all nice I guess

I'm also on team they're-all-nice.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 10:19 pm

whippoorwill wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 6:50 pm Queen Anne’s Lace is indeed a native wildflower

It gets a shoutout in line two of perhaps my favorite Peter Case song. It's one of those songs that owns me from the first couplet.

　　On the hills outside of town, there's a hiding place
　　Where the green fields sway with lavender, mustard, and Queen Anne's lace

Purple clover, Queen Anne's Lace,
crimson hair across your face
You could make me cry if you don't know
Don't know what I was thinking of
you might be spoilin' me too much, love
You're gonna make me lonesome when you go.
-- B. Dylan

Dylan always wins.

It's sometimes cruel and arrogant, but he's always gonna.

Wasn't aiming to start a lyrics contest. Merely noting the use of QAL in (at least) two different songs.
Whenever I hear Queen Anne's Lace mentioned my mind immediately goes to Purple Clover. It's a reflex.

How about Crimson Clover? That seems to be my husband’s high school class’s theme song

That's more inspired by the colors than flowers.

I'm also a fan of the lovely columbine. Blue and white and purple and white. The name of the first plane to bear the call sign "Air Force One" was "The Columbine." I think it was Mamie Eisenhower's favorite flower.

I remember "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation" from my high school dances.
Later

A beloved flower of the Baltimore region is the black-eyed Susan which, as you can see below, flourishes zestily when they are in season.

In fact, while The Kentucky Derby is famously nicknamed "The Run for the Roses," The Preakness Stakes is less celebrated for its nickname "The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans."

Part of this is the embarrassing reality that the race occurs when the flower isn't yet in bloom, and so wreath awarded to the winner only looks like it's made up of black-eyed Sues, but a closer inspection will reveal those flowers to be Viking Poms that are bred to look like Susans.

This is actually an improvement in our history of wreath fraud, as they previously adorned the wreath with daisies that were hand-tinted yellow to look like Suzies, because people are crazy.

I remember the proliferation of wild growing Black Eyed Susans at my grandparent's place in Central Virginia.

Quite a bit of these growing at my Aunt Susan's house in Ellicott City, MD

They were my sister’s favorite. I used to have scads of them but they seem to have died out although I see them in an odd place around the yard sometimes and I leave them there hoping to get them going again