Mine are Viola x Wittrockiana AKA pansies. Here's some pictures of some varieties from my garden.
Some reasons I love them:-
They come in so many colours and sizes
They make great cut flowers for vases or bouquets
The blotches on each flower make it look like they smile. 😀
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yup they are , and ye they do
Mine is the black kang pansy. But yeah, there are lots of other nice ones.
Tough one, torn between an Alium (Azureum) or a Sweet Pea (Purple Pimpernel).
For sentimental reasons, snapdragons. They remind me of my childhood and gently squeezing them to open their “mouths” in my parents’ garden. I also like how unusual they are.
Aesthetically, I love lilies and orchids. Simply beautiful flowers with elegance.
Aquilegia for me. I started out with a few different ones and now I have so many. Such a variety of shapes and colours of the flowers from pale pastels to dark dramatic purples. Single colours and bicolour ones. Small spiky flowers to large petals. The bright green foliage appears early on in spring and then the flower shoots appear; they’re just appearing in my garden now.
Those pansies are gorgeous though and I think I’ll try some of those.
Fuchsias. We had a large fuchsia hedge/shrub in our garden where I grew up, Mrs Popple I think. They were so beautiful, like ballerinas, and that crimson & purple combo was so intense. Plus we learned to pop them off their tube and suck out the nectar. They have a very long flowering season too, and have so many forms and colours that I love them even more now than I did back then.
bleeding hearts just blow my mind because how can nature create something utterly magically perfect 😍 also red hot pokers – what a striking unique beauty they are.
I love roses and aliums!
Camellias for me.
Call me old fashioned but I love hydrangea, especially the big fat mophead ones. They’re such statement flowers and they come in a variety of colours and the bush grow big enough to look good without the trouble of a big bush.
Love – in – a – mist. I like the geometry of the flower’s surrounding foliage as well as the flower itself. They also self seed well
Pansies for nostalgia. My mum used to buy them every year and I used to go round rubbing their petals as they’re soft. As an adult I quite like echinacea as the bees sit on them and it’s very cute