They make such a mess , I prefer Fresia.

I love flowers..... all flowers..... but roses and freesia's are probably my fave cur flowers...... I like lilies and have them in the garden

I can take or leave them, although I do have some imitation white roses in a vase in the dining room 

My garden is full of Lavender .I do have Honeysuckle and Nellie Moses on my back fence.

I have honeysuckle too Erinp..... and used to have a clematis but it got wilt....... and I have tried lavender a couple of times, but for some reason it doesn't seem to grow well in our soil....

Maybe you could put it in a container/pot.I think every garden should have Lavender in it

I was told that Clematis dont like wet feet so I always put some peeble at the bottom .

I love white lillies...  even if they are funeral flowers and very pungent... and I love tulips and daffs too.    I don't have flower beds where I live now though - it's just all grass.      Erin, you reminded me of my mother in law with your post... she was a devil for getting her words mixed up and she came in from the garden one day and MEANT to say 'Something's been nibbling at my clematis'      

I absolutely LOVE lillies.  And Stocks.  And tulips.

I'm a saddo that likes gardening.

'Something's been nibbling at my clematis'      

 

 

Was she smiling?

Our clematis had had a great spring. It's covered loads of fence and plants. Delightful perfume. However I love fuchsias and roses, you can do so much with them.

Us Viz readers have difficulties with the term "clematis" mind.

hahaha... my father in law was...

Too much information.

What have I said

Talking about mix up's.My friends father in law was a window cleaner and an old lady he cleaned for asked him if he would like an orange .He said "not for me I don't like fruit" .She then said to him "What about a wee half" and being a drinker he said yes ,she returned with.... a half of the orange.

I lurve lillies...    I used to have loads in the garden, but I had to pull them all up cos of bleedin lily beetles!!!

 

I HATE LILY BEETLES!!!

 

 

I am having a few lily free years -  and then I am going to plants some new ones out there...   and keep on top of picking the buggers off this time!! 

Oooooooh I've never heard of lily beetles - sounds very scary.

 

I love Fressias, Gerberas and Lilys too.

 

I have several clematis in the garden - I have two planted at the bottom of trees and they grow up through the leaves I love that. Er had a honeysuckle outside the patio doors but lost it some years ago - this thread may have spurred me into planting another one.

 

When we moved in here years ago we had a huge Pampas Grass in the garden - when the kids played to near it cut like a razor - horrible thing - we injured ourselves ripping it out. 

erin!  ! 

I've got petunias growing at the moment, i love the different colours i can't stand lavender, i hate the smell

i like most flowers but especially  fresia, roses, sweet peas, fuschia and  carnations

oh i forgot about sweet peas, machel - they're lovely.  

 

I don't like lavender either Aimee - smells of old people and funeral homes to me.   I used to have it in the garden and it took over - spent a horrendous afternoon one year hauling every last scrap of it out. 

Lily Beetles:

 

 

They are bright red & quite brazen...   they come out in the sunshine & tend to bonk right there in front of you on the leaf.

 

They have really good eyesight, & see you coming so if you don't sneak up on them they fall off & burrow into the soil.

 

The beetle eats chunks out of the leaves, but the main problem with them is that they lay their eggs on the underside of the leaf...  which hatch & the larvae then secret themself in a pile of lily beetle poo to hide...   

 

They devastated my lilies 

 

Twas ok when I kept ontop of it & picked them off by hand, but I was laid up one summer & they had a free reign & chomped their way through them all..    my beautiful lilies ended up chomped stalks covered in lily beetle shit! 

 

They overwinter in the soil..    its been a couple of years now that since I have got rid of the lilies and I am still seeing the odd beetle emerge in the summer.

Ewwwwwwwwwwww - I was just eating a Scotcg Egg - that put me right off.

We were inundated with lily beetles last year..... and had to pull up some plants.... the remaining ones seem ok... so far

We are inundated with foxes and they dig up everything I plant hence wanting astro turf..I shall be gardening in pots..

Sorry 

Go out when the sun is shining Baz...     that's when they come out for a brazen bit of copulating!!   

awwww...  but foxes are soooo cute!  

 

I'll swap ya...   my lily beetles for your foxes 

Other flowers/plants in my garden I love are:

 

my shasta daisies...   bought one plant a few years ago & have now divided it 4 times!!!   Its the plant that just keeps on giving...   and I love the big daisy flowers.

 

I also love sunflowers...    pain in the butt having to stake the bigger ones etc..   but I do love them!   They are what started me off gardening...  the first year I was skint so just planted 140 sunflower seeds (loads of different varieties)..    it looked mental & fab when they all came into flower 

 

I love my zebra grass as well (but obviously not a flower)

 

I had beautiful stargazers in pots in my garden, and these evil beetles eventually destroyed the whole lot. I tried everything, the little feckers would even see me and run and hide when I was on a mission to pick them off the stalks!

 

I love flowers but don't have the time to cultivate them at the moment. Freesias are my favourite cut flower, and I love Anemones, Azaleas, Sweet Peas, Violets, Red Hot Pokers, aah I love them all.

 

The coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show is ace this year, saw some of it last night. Would love to go there and have a mooch around.

My two favorites (can't decide between them ) are tulips and Gerbera daisies.

I had forgotten about sweet peas, though...I do love them--they might be 3rd! 

I could never name favourite flowers as I can never think of any I don't like - Lori my hubby bought me a pot of gerbera the other day, sunny yellow ones and they make me smile when I look at them - then again all flowers do lol. I even like what some call weeds, like dandelions and daisies

although not a flower, my son always called rape seed oil "sunshine grass"  especially today when the fields looked golden yellow in the sun

haha....I always ALWAYS brag about my chlamydia.  My back fence is blossoming 

Lillies are my favourite flowers.  I just love them, even though they make me sneeze like A MASSIVE sneezy thing when they are in the house, they are worth it.  Next stop Cherry Blossoms *sighs*

rape fields always look so beautiful

I did mean the rape plants and not anything untoward.

 

Sorry, very big.

Anyway, my favourite.