Four favourites are growing in my garden (along with many other favourites that have finished blooming).
The hollyhock is amazing me this year with its flowers and the height of its stalk. It must be at least ten feet tall.
The lily doesn’t bloom for long but is so pretty.
And who doesn’t love the sunflowers which, the Captain hopes, will provide seeds to salt and toast? They are a necessity for cracking and chewing and spitting out while waiting for the fish to bite.
One of my special favourites is the snapdragon. My first experience with snapdragons was when I was a very little girl in Germany and my mother showed me how these flowers could open their mouths. They’re not called snapdragons in German but Loewenmaeulchen (little lions’ mouths), and if you press the sides of the flower together, it opens up like a mouth. As a child I was fascinated by this idea of a little lion flower opening its mouth. Of course in Canada they are dragons who open their mouths to snap.
Do you have favourite flowers in your garden?
wordsfromanneli 
August 3, 2019 at 11:22 am
I don’t have a garden at the moment but I love daisies. 🙂
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August 3, 2019 at 11:47 am
They are easy keepers and very pretty. They bloom a long time, too.
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August 3, 2019 at 11:26 am
Beautiful!!!
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August 3, 2019 at 12:03 pm
Thanks, DK. The best part of summer is the flowers. I feel like I want to say “are the flowers” but “the best part are” doesn’t work.
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August 3, 2019 at 12:16 pm
Your flowers are gorgeous, Anneli. I love the lily! Some of my favorites are red geraniums and red vincas.
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August 3, 2019 at 12:40 pm
I don’t know this red vinca plant. I jut looked it up and it says it’s like a periwinkle (I know that one), and I think it would make a great plant to have growing in certain places where you don’t want to fuss every year. It seems to come back on its own. Is that right?
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August 3, 2019 at 2:49 pm
I think there are some that are perennials, but I buy the hot weather annuals. We have trailing vincas hanging in pots from our arbor, it’s very nice.
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August 3, 2019 at 3:51 pm
I must check them out!
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August 3, 2019 at 2:26 pm
Well, our favourite flowers are in the tummies of the deer! 😉
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August 3, 2019 at 3:51 pm
Oh no!!! I know just how that feels. Too bad!
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August 3, 2019 at 5:40 pm
Well, we take our pleasure from watching the deer then.
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August 3, 2019 at 5:58 pm
That works too.
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August 3, 2019 at 2:30 pm
Beautiful. I loved my mom’s sweet peas and bleeding hearts.
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August 3, 2019 at 3:52 pm
Oh yeah! I forgot about sweet peas. They are one of my favourites too, but I don’t have very good luck growing them.
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August 4, 2019 at 4:18 am
Your flowers are beautiful and look very healthy. My favorite flower is the Echinacea (I´ve sent you a picture of them recently.)
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August 4, 2019 at 7:54 am
Thanks, Ursula. Yes, I remember the echinaceas. Very pretty flowers.
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August 4, 2019 at 6:18 am
So pretty!
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August 4, 2019 at 7:56 am
Thanks, Jennie. I love flowers of all sorts.
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August 4, 2019 at 9:25 am
I do, too!! 🙂
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August 4, 2019 at 6:21 am
You have some beautiful flowers in your garden. I particularly like the sunflower and its many uses😊
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August 4, 2019 at 7:56 am
I’ve been trying for years to get them to grow for me, and this time a friend gave me some small started ones. I’ve tied them loosely to my garden fence so they don’t get knocked down by the wind and they are thanking me now.
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August 4, 2019 at 6:53 am
Wow, that sunflower 🙂
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August 4, 2019 at 7:55 am
I’m hoping it will get much bigger but even so, it’s the best I’ve ever had (as an amateur sunflower grower).
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August 5, 2019 at 7:57 am
Wish I had your green thumb. I planted flowers for the first time in my life this year. My mini rose bush is a blooming beauty. My begonias and geraniums are doing great, too, but I’m especially proud of and in love with the roses. However, my daisies died. 😞
My favorite flowers are lilacs though. Last year we had landscapers plant a lilac bush, but it didn’t bloom this year. There were very few lilac blooms anywhere this year, here.
How’s the garden growing? Maybe you could share a post showing some veggies. Our garden is overgrown with tomato plants, a few we didn’t even plant!
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August 5, 2019 at 8:00 am
I suppose I could show a few things that grew well. A lot of things didn’t even come up, so don’t worry if you aren’t totally successful at first. I’ve been doing this for years and I still have a lot of failures, depending on the weather, timing, the seeds, my (lack of) dedication, etc. Every year is a learning experience.
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August 5, 2019 at 8:32 pm
My favorite flower in my garden is anything that is blooming there.
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August 5, 2019 at 10:45 pm
I think my friends and neighbours shake their heads when they see my garden. Any and all flowers (except dandelions) are allowed to grow wherever they want. So I can relate to your favourite being anything that blooms.
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August 14, 2019 at 8:09 am
It is glorious summer when you have four favorite flowers blooming at once…how very special. I really like that you shared these four special beauties with us, Anneli, and a little about each one. Waiting for the fish to bite while enjoying your homegrown sunflower seeds brought a smile to my face. And I love the snapdragon story. Wonderful post, thank you.
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August 14, 2019 at 8:30 am
Thanks, Jet. I love flowers and it was hard to choose just a few favourites. So nice that you enjoyed reading about them. 😉
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