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| prairie_princess |
Posted - Jul 22 2009 : 9:01:04 PM
as you amble through your own garden, what is your favorite plant and why? can be a fruit, veggie, plant, or flower.
mine is definately my pumpkins! first of all, i LOVE autumn... it just fills me with so much joy. so my pumpkins are a symbol of my favorite season. i also love the little vines that grow from them and grab onto whatever they can find (i don't know the official name for these vines). i especially love it when they grab onto weeds to help them along... it reminds me of little arms! and of course i love the feeling i get when they start producing pumpkins... last year i sat outside at the end of summer, early in the morning while the sun was rising drinking my coffee. i enjoyed the cool air, knowing the rest of the day would be hot, but at that moment i could enjoy the first bite of fall. the moment was so great, i went and took pictures of my pumpkin patch with the rising sun behind it.
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
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| naturemaiden |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 2:06:58 PM
wow, being a horticulturist, it's hard to pick, but lilacs are my favorite, stock my next . I love the smell of tomato plants and basil. I love smelling all of my plants
Connie
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| Woodswoman |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 1:50:35 PM
Favorite veggie plant- Swiss Chard-I love to cook it with a little garlic and olive oil. The "Bright Lights" variety is so pretty and colorful, and it lasts from spring 'till fall.
Favorite flowering plant-Butterfly Weed. Good for the butterflies, and my bees love it, too! 
Jennifer
Farmgirl Sister #104
"Nature brings to every time and season some beauties of its own".
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| ceejay48 |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 09:27:43 AM
FAVORITE GARDEN VEGETABLE: TOMATOES!! Nothing like home-grown tomatoes!!
FAVORITE FLOWER: PANSIES!! Love those sweet faces on these hardy beauties. PEONIES!!! Huge beautiful blooms with such heavenly, soothing fragrance . . . WOW!!!
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| peapicker |
Posted - Jul 25 2009 : 04:39:48 AM
I have looked at this thread several times and didn't post because I just can't narrow it down to even five or ten plants. I like almost everything. I guess the one thing I would not plant would be sweet potatoes. Sorry , that is close as I can get right now. |
| Tapestry |
Posted - Jul 25 2009 : 02:05:29 AM
Tomatoes. I love, love, love fresh garden tomatoes. There is nothing else on earth tastes so good in summer as having that juicy goodness running down your chin after sinking your teeth into the first ripe one off the vine.
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| prariehawk |
Posted - Jul 24 2009 : 3:14:23 PM
I just love my purple coneflowers and watching the bumblebees gather nectar from them. They just look so happy and carefree.
Cindy
"Dog is my co-pilot"
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 6:17:55 PM
I love to plant elephant ears all over the front yard and back yard. I also love roses, caladiums.
Marly
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 4:14:28 PM
Zinnias are my very favorite flower.
Then tomatoes would be my favorite fruit-veggie.
Boxwood is my favorite bush-shrub.
Kris
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| electricdunce |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 4:11:13 PM
I had a Harry Lauder's Walking Stick in front of my kitchen windows for years, but it died after a really cold winter a couple of years ago. Nine feet tall, wow, that is so incredible. Please post a picture. I just think they are such amazing plants. I love my herb garden, my flowers and unfortunately this year my veggies are not doing well. Too much rain...Gardens are the best.
Karin
Farmgirl Sister #153
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| Bellepepper |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 11:43:07 AM
I have a 9 ft Harry Lauder Walking stick between the back porch and the water garden. Everyone that knows what it is, says it is the biggest one they have ever seen. And they are soooooo expensive. Its crocked limbs hang out over the water garden and the rocks that surrounds the pond. Really pretty. My next favorite is my herb garden and all the herbs. I have a huge area around the flag pole that is a mass of echinica (purple cone flower). It is my favorite when they are in full bloom. Now that the blooms are pretty well spent the yellow fenches have moved in. it looks like yellow flowers. In the vegetable gardens, I can't decide between Greenbeans, Tomatoes, hot peppers, bell peppers, garlic, onions and summer squash. I have 3 flower gardens that are real eye sores. I guess that should be a different topic. |
| mspence |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 11:29:29 AM
I love my ballon flowers. I love the way they just pop open all of a sudden, and I love the color. I also love that I just planted them and I dont have to bother with them at all. They also remind me of my grandmother, she always had a bunch of ballon flowers growing. Good memories! |
| chaddsgirl |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 11:23:47 AM
Thanks Jonni! I will check that out. I used to be able to get a soy candle that was tomato leaf scented, but haven't been able to find any for quite a while.
Elizabeth - It's really hard to nail down what gives me the most excitement. It's just so much fun to go to the garden in the first place. But I loved digging up the potatoes and seeing how many my plants produced. I've got my eye on one big Beefsteak tomatoe that is just about ready to be picked. I get excited wondering how much my pumpkin plants have grown and how many cucumbers have ripened "overnight". Gardening is such a wonderful thing, there is always something to look forward to!
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and get to bed at night and in between does what they want to do. Bob Dylan |
| 1badmamawolf |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 11:19:49 AM
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the smell of tomato plants, reminds me of my childhood, and sitting on Grandmas stool while she picked ripe tomatos, she put me on the stool to keep me safe from the black snake who lived in her garden, he was harmless, but it was the only way my mom would let me sit there, lol. I just love the memories this farmgirl connection brings up everyday when I come here to read and post.
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
| AuntPammy |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 10:59:04 AM
I L-O-V-E my acorn squash plants this year. The little buggers are everywhere and so ca-ute! Plus the pretty yellow blossoms just seem to add something to that corner of the garden.
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow." Helen Keller
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 10:56:57 AM
Sarah, you need to go to Vetiver's site and buy yourself the "tomato" perfume, so you can smell that way all year long!
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| prairie_princess |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 10:55:25 AM
tomato plants DO smell heavanly!
I would never limit your garden to just one plant... i guess i just wanted to know what in your garden inspires you the most, gives you a little tinge of excitement as you visit your garden. what do you look foward to seeing in the garden?
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
-Guillaume Apollinaire |
| chaddsgirl |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 10:52:10 AM
Oh Thank You Jenny!!! That really does make me feel like less of an odd ball. :) I love this forum, it makes me realize I am NOT crazy (no matter what my DH says).
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 10:48:01 AM
I agree Sarah..I have always LOVED the smell of tomato plants.
Jenny in Utah
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| chaddsgirl |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 10:45:15 AM
I love all my plants! But if I had to choose, I'd have to say my tomato plants. I love how huge they've gotten and all the tomatos I'm getting from them, but the thing I love about them the most is the way they smell. Yes, I am weird. But if you take a leaf from a tomatoe plant and crush it in your hands, it is the most wonderful smell in the world! Sometimes I go to the garden and just brush my hands through the vines so I can get the scent on my hands.
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| 1930sgirl |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 08:58:55 AM
I would have to say...Peonies! I just love the old fashioned look they add to the garden, plus they remind me of childhood. When I was a little girl, we lived in a house that had a huge veggie garden in one corner of the property. It was completely surrounded by a peony border. The smell was absolutely heavenly! My swing set, sandbox and playhouse were right next to the garden, so I could enjoy the fragrance all day long.
Joyce |
| 1badmamawolf |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 08:33:15 AM
If I were to pick just one flower, it would be the "rose", the yellow rose. If I were to pick just one fruit, it would be a big juicy ripe, right off the tree, sun warmed "peach". If I were to pick just one veggy, it would be the "tomatoe", any kind and size, juicy ripe just off the vine.
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 07:16:32 AM
Man...this is too hard. I have soooo many flowers, and soooo many vege garden plants that I just can't pick. I love each one for its own properties...
For each growing season, maybe? Early Spring, I love pansies and Viola's. They have such beautiful little faces. So expressive, and such deep, velvety colors! Early spring also brings my favorite vege, English Peas. Gorgeous green color, perfect white flower.
Summer is when things start kicking in my garden, and when all the butterflies and their larvae come...all the daylilies, the "Black Knight" butterfly bush...but I love, love my calla lilies. They are the prettiest shade of fuschia with a green center. And, then there is the Jupiters Beard, red milkweed and orange butterfly weed. Oh gosh! It's just way to hard to pick!!!
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| 4HMom |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 07:09:28 AM
Melody June,I have apple mint, chocolate mint, lime mint, orange mint, spearmint, peppermint, ginger mint, and wild mint....I just love how they smell when I walk by/through and pluck a few leaves here and there. How many mints do you have?
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
| Cabinprincess |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 05:34:09 AM
Can't pick just one. But I can't live without my herb garden right out my door. I can't cook without it. It is so fun now looking for something new I don't have already. How MANY mints are there?? LOL
Smiles, Melody June
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| Nance in France |
Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 04:53:23 AM
Flowering plants? PANSIES PANSIES PANSIES!! Closely followed by hydrangeas and lavender! For the cook in me, tomatoes and basil! Although greek oregano in a salad with feta cheese, fresh tomatoes and a good viniagrette is one lusty herb to chow down on!!
I'm with Aunt Jenny; I hope I NEVER have the limitation, or must choose only one thing to grow!! Horticultural hugs to all, Nance |
