Favorite Flowers

This is my favorite Peony Obsession, Designer by Farida Floral

Hi AlishaRose and !

Fun to see this thread resurface. I was thinking about it last nite as I received a newsletter talking about fragrant, southern winter bloomers.

Kristi (who is dreaming of springtime)

My most favorite flowers are tulips!
Recently visited the tulip fields in Washington, did not know that there is such beauty here! I have a video about this trip!

I didn't find a separate threat to say hi. So - hi, I'm new here (but have been reading this forum for some time now) .
I would say that peonies and lilies, but there are so many wonderful flowers that it's so hard to choose .
I'm waiting to see some lilies in my garden!

@jasmil2 I agree, I grew up with the fragrance of peonies and loved them but sadly they won't grow well in the south.

I agree with you,

there are so many wonderful flowers that it's so hard to choose

I think my fav is whatever is fragrantly blooming at this moment!

I love the earliest blooming light blue-purple iris that smells like grape juice. I've heard them called passalong iris, and they are all over E. TN. If you've got a good clump of them, go outside in the morning or evening, especially, and the wonder of them... I also adore lilacs, but they haven't done well here. Invasive honeysuckle, Mr. Lincoln roses, fragrant lilies, and oh, so many other wonderful flowers!

pod said: @jasmil2 I agree, I grew up with the fragrance of peonies and loved them but sadly they won't grow well in the south.

I agree with you, I think my fav is whatever is fragrantly blooming at this moment!

haha, I always have the same.
Anyway, here is a funfact: My name is Jasmina. My Mother had never been allergic to anything. I was born and my grandma brought my mother some jasmine flowers to her room. Mum started coughing and sneezing. It turned out that she got allergic to jasmine .
And jasmine is blooming right now at my mother's street (it's wonderful!) and she can't go for a walk in the direction where it grows .

Hmm if it goes to my favourite flowers I have got many of them! https://gardenseedsmarket.com/... However, I love cactuses which are really beautifull, but sometimes dangerous (because of spines ). Furthermore, I am more satisfied with plants I have growed, so they are my favourites and the most beauties! I also felt in love with carnivorous plants which now are mysterious for me. I need to find out more about them!

My favorite seems to be the one blooming and adding a wonderful sent to the garden

Today it is the phlox



The butterflies also find it a favorite

Nice! What is not to love about that!?!!

My favorite flower is Rose and Jasmines. I have both flowers in my garden. Their fragrance is hypnotizing. I have so much fond of flowers so i wear floral dresses, flower pin, flower accessories.
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Both great smells

I don't grow many roses but refuse to grow ones with little or no sent .

Evening fragrance, nicotiana Alata is heavenly! Self sows, year after year.

Carolina Jessamine & Night Blooming Jasmine (cestrum) are my all time favorite intoxicating fragrant flowers. The 1st is about to bud here in zone 9 for 2019's Spring color & fragrance delight. Then May thru Nov. nights my patio will permeate with night cestrum's exotic aroma.

A new addition to our fragrant plants are a couple of the small dianthus. They are in pots and now we don't have to worry about them being destroyed by moles or gophers. These pictures aren't great but the flowers are pretty and very fragrant. I have never mentioned that we have had dianthus "Firewitch" for years used as a ground cover in one small spot and we love it. It is budding now and is wonderfully fragrant when in full bloom. It also has the ability to do some repeat bloom in fall.



Dianthus--one of the Sunflor variety. Purchased at Walmart but no specific name. I found out the Sunflor dianthus has quite a lot of different varieties, hope to eventually add more.


Dianthus--no name of any kind, another Walmart purchase--it is a lovely color, dark reddish pink. My camera doesn't do justice to it.

Now we are going to take a chance and try to grow some of the large carnations. This may be an exercise in futility but we love that fragrance. I bought a seed packet of Chabauds' Giants at Lowe's so we shall see. They are planted in pots right now, hope to see seeds sprouting within ten days.

Another small diathus planted a couple of weeks ago: This is Earlybird Sherbert. The form is like a large carnation--but in a small flower--and the fragrance also seems to me like the carnations I used to get for special occasions when I was a kid. Right now in a small vase I have one of the little flowers I removed a couple of days ago and the fragrance is still there.


Earlybird Sherbert--the color is really pink. The flowers have held up very well in all the rain and wind we have had the past couple of weeks.

The next one is probably a cross between a diathus plumarius (name unknown) and Firewitch. I was very surprised when I walked out and saw this one because of the difference in the color. It is a very hot pink, totally different from the others. It does have the fragrance, of course.


Unfortunately my camera just doesn't get the color right.

Nice plants , I too like the smell of dianthus (rather unique smell)

Did your seeds sprout?

Cinda, so far the seeds have been a flop. I am going to try again, although it may be too late, but I just have to give it one last try.

Here is a photo of woodland phlox that was growing on the property when we bought it. The flowers are fragrant and so pretty to see. They last about a month and then they go completely down, no foliage to be seen. The big plant in the middle is our fragrant crinum lily which blooms in the fall.