Hi all, I'm new to this forum but have always been interested in wildflowers. When spring finally gets going here I may have pictures to post, but at the moment I'm just pleased to see brown grass having appeared after the snow melted! I'm just wondering, though, what the definition is for this forum since I notice not all the plants pictured above are native (to the country from which they are posted). Can I ask, please, what's the definition of wildflower for this forum?

I would say that the definition for this forum is any flower that grows wild with no help. I know that is very loose, but that is the way it has been. We really can not expect everyone to know which plants are native to their area and insisting that they be only native would limit a lot of people.
Maybe @dave and @Trish could shed some light on the question. I hope they can help us/

Generally a wildflower will be a flower that you didn't grow. It is uncultivated and grows entirely without human intervention.

That is what I was thinking Dave

I buy seeds of any type flower i find pretty, and sow half of them outside in the fall. So, now they are starting to bloom.


and i sow the second half of the seeds in the spring to extend the blooming season and fill in the gaps.




most of them never germinate, but poppies, larkspur, and toadflax are booming so far.

I'm afraid if I planted seeds of mixed wildflowers, I might not know the difference between the wildflower plants and weeds! But those flowers sure look nice!

Ah, what i do is pull up anything that i dont like the bloom, or if i recognize it as a weed already.

My first delphiniums of the year.

This is my backyard wildflowers each month 2015:
march


april





may




the boards are for repairing my back stairs. Yes, they threw the boards on my wildflowers.
This is my front yard delphinium and larkspur:




the bare patches, i planted caladium and gladiolus bulbs.
and this is an update on the mystery flower:






i think its bishops flower, but it is really sloooooow blooming

My front yard wildflower garden:

That looks really pretty, congratulations!!!

On our way to Monterey last Saturday 16May, took some photos of ice plants growing wild:

Went hiking at Land's End in San Francisco last 09May:
As we stand on the cliffside, saw that there seems to be some nice vegetation down by the beach, so we went down to check:


On closer view..oh lovely wildflowers!

Are the flowers in the second pictures Calla lilies?

Yeah..calla lilies! So pretty and tall over the other smaller flowers.

That is amazing!! I didn't know that Callas could grow wild, but I guess things are different in California than Texas

Memorial day weekend, this time hiking along Lake Chabot regional park..saw these lovely drought tolerant wildflower beauties. Sorry don't know their names, but I just kept taking photos along the way. Allowed me to rest as I take the shots I am happy to see there are still some wildflowers left as the dry brown landscape is all around now, only the most heat tolerant trees and shrubs are making it. Lucky are these plants near the lake indeed.

The view at Lake Chabot and some stone markers about the dam:



And the wildflowers we saw during the hike:





I like the natural arch formed by this tree:


More wildflowers:




I really loved this one, like little dangling white bells, growing on a shady side:



More patches of yellow:


wild california poppy

Simply adorable and magnificent!!

Thank you