You love sweet fragrances. Me too.
Two more of my favorites. Lilac and honeysuckle.
Flowers
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Oh gosh yes. I can get lost in a sweet scent.
Ages ago my dad planted a hybrid tea rose (a hybrid tea is like two roses in one, consisting of a rose of a certain variety tending to produce beautiful blooms and having other good qualities grafted to the hardy root stock of another rose variety) in the front yard of the house I currently live in. Due to the climate here hybrid teas are difficult to keep alive and the grafted part died while the root stock survived, resulting in a plant the variety of the root stock. Hardy root stocks are chosen from roses which grow in the wild. These roses tend to be fragrant (some resembling a tea fragrance; hence, the name). So, the rose which ended up in the yard would grow into a huge, exceptionally fragrant shrub rose but one subject to disease and insects, and it would bloom only once per season. For a long time I let it live, mostly due to the wonderful fragrance, but because of its location next to the driveway I finally had to cut it down. I miss it and its fragrance. But wild, "natural" roses are very subject to a terminal rose virus which can infect all other roses in a landscape and pros recommend destroying them within a certain radius of other roses.
My favorites are peonies, magnolias, lily of the valley, and pale pink roses.
These are peonies from the garden about three years ago, and the other is night-blooming jasmine outside my place in California. It literally awakened me at night if I slept with just the screen door closed.
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Those flowers look beautiful.
love tulips. reminds me of the Tulip festival back home.
One of our neighbor's had passion flower vines growing on the back chainlink fence and once a year the fence would turn totally bright orange with butterflies that liked passion flowers. It was spectacular.
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dang! I'd like to see that.One of our neighbor's had passion flower vines growing on the back chainlink fence and once a year the fence would turn totally bright orange with butterflies that liked passion flowers. It was spectacular.
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...I love irises, just wish their beauty wasn't so fleeting.....
I used to take care of the leaves just as well as the flowers. Trimmed out the dead growth periodically, kept them watered, all that. And they stayed looking green and healthy well into Fall. Maybe not flowers, but still better to look at than dirt! 
Just watched The Wizard of Oz this morning. Can ya tell?
Popppppiess...poppies will put them to sleep.Just watched The Wizard of Oz this morning. Can ya tell?
Yup, that's what she said.
Beautiful dangerous.
It occurred to me that Judy Garland, the person stayed in that poppy field long after Dorothy escaped it. Though it wasn't heroin that got her in the end, it was addiction.
((((Judy))))
...wow!....the sheer power and imagery in that post is stunning Pats!...Yup, that's what she said.
Beautiful dangerous.
It occurred to me that Judy Garland, the person stayed in that poppy field long after Dorothy escaped it. Though it wasn't heroin that got her in the end, it was addiction.
((((Judy))))
I love where I live, but I sure do miss having a piece of dirt to dig around in. I have a few house plants and grow catnip, lemon balm and wheat grass for the cats, but about this time of year I start Jonesing for some big dirt.
Maybe I'll do the community garden this year.