Hey, if you happen to see the most beautiful flowers in the world, share!

[beautress]

Your own flowers would be wonderful to see. Vicarious flowers, well, whatever pleases thine eyes Do share. My last effort of taking a picture was at the Golden Gate bridge amidst the gentle fog, and when the picture came back from the developers, there were two sticks on white. Bleh! So, apologies lacking, I'm sticking with what the search engine finds.

 

[WinterBorn]

A friend of mine posted this pic of a daffodil field in North Georgia.

 

[beautress]

Flanders Fields

Bless all those who brought America its freedom from tyranny

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[beautress]

A friend of mine posted this pic of a daffodil field in North Georgia.

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Oh, my, Winterborn. How wonderful.

 

[beautress]

Any day now, with a little luck from warm breezes, we will be treated to seeing fields of bluebonnets, our state flower. A native of the state, I never saw bluebonnet fields until I was ten years old, when we drove from our Houston big city home to more northerly fields where we saw hill after hill, and field after field of the Texas State Flower. No wonder they picked bluebonnets. Oddly, you don't see them in other states, and here, we often see them mixed in with Indian paintbrushes on the roadsides heralded by First Lady, Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson when she encouraged wild flowers to grow along Interstate Highways from coast to coast. There are fields like this mainly in cow country, which is like ubiquitous in Texas. lol!

 

[beautress]

A tribute to Lady Bird Johnson, the Wildflower First Lady

 

[1srelluc]

Cultivated flowers never got much more than a "meh" form me.....I do like me some wildflowers though.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Lavender fields in Sequim, WA, the area I vacated six months ago in favor of the Midwest. I used to take the bus to Sequim to see my chiropractor and during the lavender blooming season, the entire area was saturated with the smell of lavender. Even the downtown core is heavily planted with lavender, one of the most relaxing and therapeutic aromas.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Peace Rose

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

The favorite in my grandma's garden, for its candy-sweet fragrance!

 

[beautress]

Like honey? Bees and Flowers make the sweet treat collected by very brave beekeepers.

 

[1srelluc]

The favorite in my grandma's garden, for its candy-sweet fragrance!

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LOL....Years ago I dug-up a bed of those to make room for a retaining wall and tossed them down over the bank in the back yard and I'll be damned if they did not take root and have been growing "wild" ever since. I guess they took root because that's the same place I toss leaves I rake up.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Honey bees! I used to have about 65 feet of Escallonia hedge which, in bloom, attracted such an abundance of bees that it was magical to stand next the hedge and breathe in the buzzing!

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

LOL....Years ago I dug-up a bed of those to make room for a retaining wall and tossed them down over the bank in the back yard and I'll be damned if they did not take root and have been growing "wild" ever since. I guess they took root because that's the same place I toss leaves I rake up.

That's good to know! Our renter used to think that her irises were all very fragile and she spent a jaw-dropping amount of time tending them. Pretty flowers and lovely fragrance, but she was driven! Pretty soon, she had usurped way more planting space than was decorous.

 

[beautress]

Gallardias grow on the roadside out front of my farmland, and I love them so.

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[beautress]

LOL....Years ago I dug-up a bed of those to make room for a retaining wall and tossed them down over the bank in the back yard and I'll be damned if they did not take root and have been growing "wild" ever since. I guess they took root because that's the same place I toss leaves I rake up.​

Are you saying that two wrongs CAN make a right? lol! I love it.

 

[JoeBlow]

Grows like weeds.

 

[beautress]

I knew Ms. Lady Bird coauthored a few books. Mine has a black cover with some spectacular flowers on the front. I'll have to look it up in my library of sorts.

 

[.oldschool]

 

[beautress]

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That's breathtaking, Oldschool. There are so many of them it looks like someone is growing flowers for perfume factory or something. For some reason, my monitor cannot read what seems to be a caption below the picture. What are they, and where are they growing?