Freesia, because it reminds me of my childhood and Spring.

Hellebores (aka Lenten Rose) because they flower early in the spring, and their flowers stay for a few months and change color during that time.

I also love Virginia Bluebells because the blossoms are so durn pretty :)

For flowering shrubs, I love lilacs. I planted four of them along the side of my house. They were maybe a foot tall when I planted them 7 years ago, and now they’re at least 10 feet tall. The blooms are so fragrant - I love opening the windows to let the scent into my house.

For annuals, lantana are one of my favorites and every year I put a bunch of them in my pots and planters. In some zones they’re perennial and invasive, but in mine they die out in autumn. They have such bright, happy flower clusters, it always makes me smile to see them :)

Gardening season is starting soon and I’m excited in case you couldn’t tell!

Most of the time it’s tulips. They’re classic, not overly fancy, come in a ton of colors and a few different petal shapes if you need something a little extra, and they just remind me of spring and the shape makes me happy.

The one I like that’s out of my league is the fuchsia. I wanted one for a few years, kept forgetting to buy one, and last year I finally got one. It was about double what I like to spend on plants because half of them die because I’m an over-waterer. The fuchsia lasted a week. 😣

This thing looks magical though, and I still can’t believe it’s from this planet.

u r 😳

I tend to go between classics like Sour Diesel or Blue Dream.

Gardenias. My grandmother had a huge gardenia tree/bush monstrosity that my mom took a cutting off of when grandma died. That cutting turned into the same tree bush monstrosity in my backyard.

Love me some dahlias, they have such an intricate petal pattern when they bloom!

I’ve always loved a Frangipani (especially the white ones)

I have a soft spot for flowering trees, and these always remind me of fun times by the coast (plus some part of me thinks they look like a delicious forbidden food).

Mānuka flowers, millions of tiny flowers dropping petals on the wind, absolutely beautiful.

Gerbera, to me those are the “floweriest flowers” I know.

Hibiscus flowers typically last less than 48 hours but have some insanely beautiful varieties.

Two of my favorites that I have in my yard are the:
Imperial Dragon

Midnight Tryst

Firefly Petunia, because it glows in the dark.

Indica.

I’m a simple man and enjoy the sheer size and simplicity of the sunflower. Plus a field of them is just gorgeous.

Jade vines, they’re pretty but also local to my old culture.

Lavandula smells nice and is Purple

That giant one that smells like a festering corpse. Because it’s funny but also I don’t have to deal with it.

Black-eyed Susan. They grow in big bunches and expand outward each year in a ring where the seeds fall. Just a simple flower that stands out in late summer in my area and lasts through fall. It’s low maintenance too.

Gaillardia

I love the colours. These flowers grow naturally where I leave in southeast France. They’re very resistant and bloom all year long. They where my father’s favourite and mine too.

Couldn’t tell you my favorite, but I could easily tell you I absolutely HATE rafflesia because it kinda creeps me out in a similar way that mushrooms do.

I love Lily of the Valley. They are so tiny and cute and smell amazing. Breaking Bad taught me they are also poisonous

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_of_the_valley

Anything with just a really good purple. Deep purples and indigos and such that are so purple they’re blue and so blue their purple.

politics be damned, I like the alberta wild rose

Peony because I like the way it looks like a ruffled ball of fabric

I don’t have a huge oppinion on this, but whenever I think about it, I constantly find myself liking the snake’s head:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritillaria_meleagris

Snapdragons. My wife sometimes plants them to attract bees to her vegetable garden. The sight of bee butts wriggling to get inside those flowers never fails to make me smile.

Dandelion. F**k yeah, concrete!

Smell-wise, night blooming jasmine. Effortless beauty, rain lilies and the black eyed susans. Pollinator attracting, I don’t know what it’s called but there is a lanky bush in my backyard with flowers like morning glories and when it blooms, it is a bee club, absolutely stuffed full of bees. So many bees come to that one plant every year late summer.

Venus fly traps because they’re one of the only flowers that will fight you

Roses, but only the heirloom types that have a scent. Their shapes and colors vary widely, but they are so satisfying to my soul, I’d fill up acres with them if we didn’t need to raise food. Bit finicky to grow, bit of a challenge to maintain them.

By usefulness: Yarrow, it’s an incredibly useful plant. Helps with bleeding, heartburn, indigestion.

By looks: Bird of Paradise Flower, lives quite a long time when cut from the plant.

Scariest: Poison Hemlock, it’s everywhere. And you wouldn’t think much of it.

Even scarier: Giant Hogweed. It’s like Poison Hemlock, but apocalyptic in size.

Best smelling: Wax Flower

Least favorites Limonium, it smells like cat piss. Roses due to thorns, plus if you don’t get them in water ASAP they tend to get air bubbles in the stem that makes the plant die faster. Gebera Daisies; they have a very weak stem. 2inch Carnations, because they break at the nodes

I used to be a florist and my hobbies involve foraging.