What is Your Most Favourite Plant ?

Wow Chestnut! What an absolute beauty ?

Ah, yes, Rosie51. Daffodils really are wonderful. I look forward to them every spring. I try to plant different ones each year. I like the little ones too, tete-a-tete etc.

The violet plant is my absolute. My gran gave me my first violet plant when I married 39 years ago . Gran is long gone but the cuttings I have taken all descendants of the one she gave me all those years ago . Every year I take two or three leaf cuttings & grow a new plant . They flower two or three times a year & give me such joy . I often give them away to friends with strict instructions on how to look after them ?

I would probably choose the daffodil too.
New life, new beginnings and a deep connection to my Welsh family.

Snowdrops for similar reasons.

Here's a fern for you, FannyC. I loved it so much it grew to an enormous size. It became too large for the living room so I had to put it on the landing. When I moved I had to give it away (no landing!) but I'm pretty sure it went to a good home as the guy was unfazed by its size!

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Another Agapanthus lover here. My giant ones are over 6 ft tall, but still in bud, whereas the medium and smaller ones are just going over.

I had a collection of heuchera, different colours but only the dark red ones survived. The roots of the others got eaten by vine weevils I think.

Hellebores and I have never managed to grow them.

Dh loves ferns fanny and we have far too many in our small garden.

I love diorama in drifts. Sadly they don't do well in our garden.

Ah, lovely answers, thank you.
That chocolate cosmos is gorgeous Casdon
Caleo, I absolutely love cow parsley too. I really wanted to grow it at the bottom of our garden, but DH vetoed it

I absolutely love jasmine in the summer - the scent fills the garden during the day and at night too. It is so exotic.

I'm also a lover of ferns, they are so beautiful. They remind me of damp woods and babbling streams.

For flowers wild primroses, lilacs, wisteria, sweet peas and pink roses.

henetha

Daffodils. They are not just beautiful and cheerful to look at, but represent new life, a new beginning, a new season of hope .
In the house, I love my maidenhair fern bought recently. It's so graceful.

I agree, see my post of 19.03. Daffodils are such happy flowers, they foretell of more clement weather, of longer hours of daylight, of such positiveness!

Daffodils. They are not just beautiful and cheerful to look at, but represent new life, a new beginning, a new season of hope .
In the house, I love my maidenhair fern bought recently. It's so graceful.

Callistemon21

Oh yes, I've just bought some Agapanthus after failing to find any at the garden centre for a couple of years.
Bright, cheerful and bold!

I always thought they were difficult to grow but in fact they are quite tough plants. They seemed to grow wild in Portugal when we went there.

Oh yes, I've just bought some Agapanthus after failing to find any at the garden centre for a couple of years.
Bright, cheerful and bold!

Agapanthus and Camassia. I love their ‘sturdiness’.

For me it's all about the scent - roses, lilac, sweetpeas.....

And night scented stock, that a male relative recently described as old ladies' favourites. Guilty as charged!

Rosie51

Can't have one favourite.......love roses, fuchsias, pansies, hebes and so many others, but if I have to choose just one then it's a daffodil. You can't look at a bunch of daffodils and not smile, well I can't anyway

Rosie51, same here. I just don't like the constant 'favourite' questions- town, animal, bird, holiday, and on, and on. I like so many flowers for different reasons and at different times. On Gardener's World tonight, 1 gardener only keeps one plant- gink boa and all its many cultivars. And I just don't get it (but glad it is what he enjoys).

Callistemon, of course ?

Dandelions. So unwanted, yet so relentlessly cheerful.

I am very fond of Brunnera. Lots of lovely forget me not type flowers but none of the mildew problems. One the flowers have finished, there is a mound of attractive leaves.

Can't have one favourite.......love roses, fuchsias, pansies, hebes and so many others, but if I have to choose just one then it's a daffodil. You can't look at a bunch of daffodils and not smile, well I can't anyway

Right now the white balloon flower, especially in the twilight.

But I'll have a different answer for each month!

If I had to choose just one then it would be a white foxglove i think as that's something I have had in every garden I've ever lived with.

I'd have to say my favourite is wild cow parsley which looks terrible right now but in the spring it's gorgeous at the edge of woods and along the lane.