Becki
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What's your favourite flower?I love sweet peas. And Fucias and roses and Daisies, although they are a weed. 
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Aqui
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guess what? Aquilegias!
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Lizzie
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I love sweet peas too, and aquilegias.
In fact it's next to impossible to find a single favourite but I think I'm always most pleased to see Daffodils.
Although the bluebells are looking pretty good at the mo...
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mc55
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cowslips, bluebells, freesia and peony.
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Cabbagepatch
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This one is almost impossible to answer.
It has to be old fashioned cottage garden flowers, all chaotic and muddly. (I have an afinity with them!!)
Rambling roses, honeysuckle, delphiniums, stocks.......
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Bovey Belle
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Oh ditto CP, very ditto. I have a soft spot for Sweet Williams and Nasturtiums too, as my mum always had them growing in the garden when I was a kid. I've always grown Nasturtiums in every garden I've ever had, every year . . .
Wild flowers, um, lots to choose from there too. Bluebells, because they are so stunning en masse and smell wonderful. Ramsons, because they remind me of springtime walks in Dorset, especially one particular walk on the Encombe Estate when a friend and I sat down for a rest - in a patch of Ramsons!!! Wild roses, because they are so beautiful. Violets in big clumps, wild Aquilegia which grow around the Welsh lanes. I think the overall vote has to go to Viper's Bugloss, which looks so exotic with its pink and blue flowers and was the one flower in my Observers' Book which I longed to find, but never did until I was 30 and found it on a Dorset cliff.
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Somerset Lad
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Snowdrops, primroses,bluebells, pasque flower and sophrolaeliacatlea. a beautiful orchid i have. 
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Cabbagepatch
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| Somerset Lad wrote: | | sophrolaeliacatlea:lol: |
 Is it entirely legal SL?
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nanny-now and forever
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| Cabbagepatch wrote: | | Somerset Lad wrote: | | sophrolaeliacatlea:lol: |
Is it entirely legal SL? |
i think that SL is a bit of a dark horse on his off moments don't you CP?
i love lilllies and sweet peas and wildflowers of all sorts and i adore honey suckle as well and dahlias and violets and all sorts of things
couldn't pick a favourite i am afraid
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Cabbagepatch
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One of the honeysuckles here is scrambling up one of the trees, it must be 20ft high in places, with long tendrils trailing down, covered in beautiful flowers. A sight to behold.
Ooh, forgot about violas, gorgeous little faces. And I spotted a peony in full bloom this afternoon, hidden away and I had forgotten it was there. A bit showy and blowsy really, but beautiful all the same.
OOh dear, waxing lyrical again, I'll be quiet now shall I?
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Somerset Lad
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SLC, for short and it is legal and it is a truly stunning orchid about 5 inches across and a vivid magenta colour.
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Dizzy
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Gosh I have so many its hard to know where to start. I guess snowdrops and daffs because they herald the warmer days and they cheer me up so much after the bleak welsh winter. I love good 'doers' if you know what I mean. Something which does very very well with minimum input like Lavatera.......flowers its heart out from April to October. Dahlias because they last well into the autumn but I think that my real favourites are fuschias love the little dancing ladies with their blowsy skirts.
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alison
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I think I love geraniums the most.
I love the heady smell, when you go into the greenhouse and there are some in there, and they last all summer with their pretty flowers.
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Dizzy
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MMMmmm Alison , talking of smells in the greenhouse how about the smell of tomatos growing and the taste of a lovely warm Gardeners Delight straight from the vine. Delish
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Libby
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Couldn't possibly choose, I'm like a butterfly I like to flit between flowers
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Haize
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Love in the mist, lovely dainty little things.
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lloyd
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| Somerset Lad wrote: | | short and legal and truly stunning about 5 inches across and a vivid magenta colour. |
Some things might be better kept private, SL?
My overall favourite is the simple little Lilly of the Valley. Scent, appearance, it's got the lot.
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willow
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One of my favorites is the humble old Rose
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Obsidian
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I'm not a big flower person, but do love freesia's (if I've spelt it right) I love their smell and the funny shape. I also like the variety of colours.
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Emma Jane
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I can't think of a flower I don't like, but if I have to have to choose a garden flower, then the snakes head Fritilaria.
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Daisy Bell
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lilly
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Jellycakesforme
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At the moment wintersweet because it is just about to come out, and I love it.
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Jojo
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I love small carnations in a vase because they look lovely and last a long time,but flowers in the garden thats hard,I just love seeing them grow 
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browneyes
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Red Rose buds in the gatden or in a vase,also sweet peas they smell great.
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Jojo
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Yes sweet peas smell lovely in the house,I always have trouble growing them 
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janowl
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Fuschias are my favourite. There are so many varieties, and they look lovely. I've had one in flower for months.
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morlan75
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I love White Lilly's... VERY bad luck to recive them hence I don't ever get baught any
But close second's are Orchids and Lilly Of The Valley
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Libby
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Why is it bad luck??
You will have to grow some when you get your allotment
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morlan75
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In flower "Lore" aparently to recive white lilly's means "death"
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Old Lob
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| morlan75 wrote: | | In flower "Lore" aparently to recive white lilly's means "death" |
Thanks for that!!! It was my late wife's favourite and I bought them regularly!
But I like jasmine
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morlan75
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Ooops... lol xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Jasmine is very nice... lol
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baggy
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poppies, really great to see a field full on a bright summer day, also sunflowers especially in france where the fields are full, and daisies
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