What are your 'happy flowers'?

Thank you @shiney I will have a look.

 

What a wonderful list, Mrs. B, and I especially like the reason of the perennial phloxflowers smelling like the seaside. I need to seek them out to smell the flowers now! Penstemon are truly lovely and give some height too. Fuschias I do love as well, and them going on a long time is something I want.

 

shiney that way you will get the best out of them - a garden of happy plants

 

I grow flowers that are good for the bees and butterflies.
Cosmos, pot marigolds, verbena bonariences and snapdragons, but the snapdragons aren't good for the butterflies unless you grow the open flower ones.

 

I have a little verbena bonariences ready to plant out, hoping it will do OK. Anything for the bees and butterflies is good in my book . Thank you for reminding me about snapdragons, such joyous little blooms, and I'll look out for the open ones too.

 

Your welcome @Pink678

 

Out in the garden between the rain showers the primroses really stood out. Got me thinking...we often have a few in flower in December and the numbers then increase. March is the best time and our garden has self seeded primroses all over the place. Another reason for making us enjoy them so much? I start making primrose wine in Feb. (3 demijons on the go now). Taking the flowers seems to encourage the plants to keep producing more flowers. They brighten up the garden in the grey days and this year the sparrows haven't picked the flower heads off. A bonus.

 

Every flower is my happy flower ,at this time of the year for me is Forget-me-nots but don't tell @longk

 

Thank you @Pink678

 

All flowers make me happy, especially sweet peas and wildflowers.

 

My happy flowers are akin to a weed, the small purple flowers of Ivy Leaved Toadflax, also called Kenilworth Ivy (Cymbalaria muralis). They grew everywhere in a city where my formative years were spent, coating whole walls with purple beauty. It took me 2 years to convince it to grow in my own garden, it has survived a Scottish winter and already started flowering in March, and will continue to do so until October.

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@RoisinMcGuire how lovely. We have this in various places in our garden. Again another one that has just "come into our garden". I used to use this when teaching biology to students about how leaves allow the input and output of the gases needed for growth. The underside of the leaves have the tiny holes (stomata) which allow the exchange to take place. They can be so easily seen under a microscope. A lovely plant but it does need to be watched as it does spread.

 

How interesting! I never knew any of that, thank you for taking the time to reply. Tempted to buy a microscope now .

 

On The Levels, primroses sound very forgiving and easy to grow, I will look into them. I like the ones with the different coloured edges like the picture I attached. I've never heard of primrose wine, sounds interesting!

 

lolimac, I love forget-me-nots, I remember seeing them around a lot when I was a child. I love how tiny they are.