What is Your Most Favourite Plant ?

Just at the moment, crocosmia Emily McKenzie - short and generally more compact than Lucifer and flowers a bit later.

If picking just one, foxgloves in the wild.

I love peonies too Kalu and Maw and the bonus is the deer and rabbits don't. I also have a soft spot for Centaurea as theyeave that alone top

Penstemons and alstroemeria.flower their hearts out from June to October on my difficult garden so they are.favourites too.

I like wisteria, one of the first to flower in Spring here. Grows and spreads all over our backyard. That and passion fruits.

Peonies for me too Maw. I have three varieties around the garden and always buy bunches of fresh cut to place around the house. Such a beautiful flower from a small bud to a fully opened showy bloom. They are a delight.

I also love daffodils heralding signs of spring, lucifer crocosmia, iris, blue and white Canterbury bells, and, and…
far to many more to mention.

I like any plant I can keep alive, sadly no green fingers here. I don’t like yellow (anything), the only exception being daffodils which I buy for indoors. As others say, it heralds Spring. My garden is all pink, lilac and blues and I’m very fond of a bed of pink roses - it’s where we put all our dogs ashes and I’ve a pergola covered by clematis, which is spectacular too. Love stocks - both colours and scent. I’m trying to grow lupins again after a failed attempt many years ago.

I agree with Christopher Lloyd. My favourite plant is the one I’m looking at.

Anything that thrives on a rockery; I love rockeries. Mine is modest but I look forward to the arabis and aubretia, the huge tumbling froth of alyssum saxatile ‘gold dust’, the phlox, thyme and campanula and the snakes head fritillaries. Rock gardens anywhere are my “thing”!

The plant that I’m absolutely loving at the moment is actually my neighbour’s, which has now taken over my fence.
It’s a Passion flower and it’s absolutely thriving.
I’ve never seen a plant so full of life!
And she grew it from a seed!
I’ll post a photo later.

I also love ferns it's exciting to think that they existed when dinosaurs walked on the earth .
I feel the same about cycads and Ginko Biloba .
One species of Magnolia existed all those years ago .
As more fossils are found who knows what else can be discovered?
Otherwise it's roses , fuchsias , rhododendrons /azaleas , acer , japonica , agapanthus ,echinops , pinks /carnations , lilies , wisteria , clematis , nerines , lily of the valley , hellebores ,scabious , poppies , lavender ,chrysanthemums ,dahlias ... the list is endless .

Everytime I see a plant in bloom I think yes that's my favourite...until something else flowers .

If pushed it's iris and it started with painting them .

They don't make great cut flowers and their leaves can be ugly , but when they bloom - they really capture my imagination .

I love Hydrangeas, I have one with a red tinge to the leaves and dusky pink flowers

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FannyCornforth

Visgirl that’s amazing about your banana plant.
Do you have a photo please?

They developed more but these are the only pictures I could find.

MawtheMerrier

I love peonies, pale pink ones, bright pinky red ones, white ones.
I have bright pink ones which I brought from my parents’ garden when I was selling the family home 21 years ago.

However, there is a universal truth, namely that the peonies flower - and the rain comes down

I have one called Bowl of Beauty and it lives up to its name!

I wish my peonies were in flower now if that’s true, might curtail our hosepipe ban ?

I love agapanthus, I have some beauties ?

I have remembered the name Fanny , I believe it is
“Jude the Obscure”
the one you suggested is very similar - and aren’t they realistic?

However, there is a universal truth, namely that the peonies flower - and the rain comes down isn't that the truth!! And it matters not one jot if they flower earlier or later than usual, the rain will fall as soon as the buds have opened.

I love peonies, pale pink ones, bright pinky red ones, white ones.
I have bright pink ones which I brought from my parents’ garden when I was selling the family home 21 years ago.

However, there is a universal truth, namely that the peonies flower - and the rain comes down

I think I would like a favourite for every season but if I really have to choose it would be Tete e Tete Daffodils, they are such sturdy little things, so bright and cheerful and bring me great joy after the winter months, I now have lots. I have tried, and still have other Daffodils in the garden but they always seem to get damaged & beaten down by the wind & rain. I had one chocolate Cosmos in a pot for several years (with other plants). I decided to refresh the soil this year and found it had grown very large so I cut it in half, planted both halves up and now have two very vigorous plants with lots of blooms.

Is the rose the ‘Grahame Thomas’ Tilly?
I’ve got a bunch of these faux roses which are a copy of them

Aquilegia for their range of shape & colour - self seed & so easy to grow.

That’s perfection Tilly

This is one of mine. It’s a David Austin rose but I can’t remember the name of it.
The fragrance is divine.

Visgirl that’s amazing about your banana plant.
Do you have a photo please?

Agree too many to select all fabulous.. I have no luck with Roses, but one day I will.
I do have a beautiful big Banana plant that threw off a large Flower about 3 years ago, that was stunning but it has only happened once, I have had this Banana plant about 15 years!

My lovely hydrangeas.
Absolutely gorgeous at the moment .
Have a beautiful big white one in bloom, a real show stopper.
I have several in shades of pink also purple/lilac

Try as I might, the beautiful blue that my grandmother had in her garden still alludes me.
I have tried rusty nails and vinegar, but still no success

I have huge Ferns on my shaded side of the garden OP , my little grandsons used run on out of them playing dinosaurs ?

After the gloom winter daffodils never fail yo left my mood.