This time it's about flowers, but not just any flowers. About the flowers in your garden.
From the start, I have to say that I love all the flowers you talk about here!
Sunflowers. I don't think there's anyone who doesn't like this flower. A little sun on the ground, grown from the earth. Although it is one of the hardy plants that are not too pretentious about living conditions, I have not managed to have specimens that please me. I must have done something wrong because I don't want to believe that the flower I like so much might not like me...
Petunias, likewise, I love both the multitude of colors, the velvety petals, and the invaluable fragrance, especially in the evening. I'm still not happy with how they grow in my pots.
Phlox, the flower of my childhood (I saw, with pleasure, that it is the flower of your childhood too!). My grandmother had a garden full of them. I remember with much nostalgia the evening games among these flowers, enveloped by the slightly sweet fragrance, as you rightly say. I don't have Phlox in the garden now but I really must put some in next year. Whenever I see Phlox I am reminded of my childhood, of the best part of childhood.
Black-eyed Susans. I have them too but they are suffering this summer from the excessive heat. I also have memories of them as a teenager, when I used to paint and they were a favorite subject.
Geraniums are my wife's favorite flower and she is handling it. We generally buy new plants in the spring.
Clematis. I especially love climbing plants, even though I am sometimes annoyed with them for being so cruel to the other plants that they sometimes suffocate. Clematis is, of course, perennial but they have something I don't like. The older stems are very brittle and because I usually (but I know it's not good) move plants in the spring, I have lost many clematis because the stems have broken.
Which do I prefer more, annuals or perennials? I think the perennials, not only because they are more advantageous as an expense, but more because these plants, bushes, and trees, growing over several years become more beautiful. Besides, every spring I pay a lot of annuals for the pleasure of having those flowers or to make certain arrangements.
The perfect market topic at this point, Denise! I enjoyed seeing your flowers and was glad they triggered nostalgia and memories of the beautiful and unique childhood years at my grandparents.
I can't put, yet, the link to my post, because it is now in the "throes of making"...
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