Favourite wild flowers

[Flummery]

I saw one of mine today - Alkanet - see avatar! It's good enough to grow in the garden and there it was in huge clumps by the roadside. Bee orchids always give me a buzz (soz!) and a splash of bright poppies is so uplifting. Yesterday I saw sweet violets too - they were white and so dainty.
What are your favourites?

[FoxHillGardener]

My garden is full of alkanet! I allow a few to stay for a while but spend a lot of time digging the rest out - they are really deep rooted. Then I have to try and catch the ones I've left before they seed everywhere. Very pretty blue flowers though

Also have got lots of red valerian whcih I get hawk moths on some years.

My favourite, though, I think are teasles. Lovely flowers, big tall plants and great seed heads. and the birds like to eat the seeds too

[Headfry]

I have Bee orchids growing under my sailing dinghy! lots!!! I love them,
Those white daisies that cover the road verges and roundabouts, sorrry I don't know their name, Cowslips and primroses.

[Waffler]

Poppies and cornflowers.

[bubblewrap]

Poppies they grow wild all over our lottie site.
They also grow in my garden.

[dexterdoglancashire]

Me too! I love poppies - have taken the plunge this year and have planted some flower seeds including poppies! can't wait for them to grow!
Bernie aka Dexterdog

[nick the grief]

Opium & Hemp only joking onest Hoccifer.

My favourites are Bluebells ( we have loads round here but they still haven't come out yet and Woodbine (Native honeysuckle) the scent is overpowering .

[Grandpadragon]

Poppies! I did well in photographic comps a few years ago with a shot very similar to LJ's avatar. I've just scattered seeds amongst the bluebells I planted earlier. So Snowdrops followed by bluebells followed by poppies all in a square metre.

[Alice]

Foxgloves. Pests that seed everywhere but I don't have the heart to pull them all out. I love them but can't believe Dobbies want £2.99 for 1 in a pot.

[bubblewrap]

Me too! I love poppies - have taken the plunge this year and have planted some flower seeds including poppies! can't wait for them to grow!
Bernie aka Dexterdog

They might not grow this year but next or years later I have poppies growing this year but I didn't have any last year poppy seeds germinate better in freshly tilled ground.

[heebiejeebie]

Dare I say it.. in the right place... (ie NOT my lottie)... bindweed is really pretty

I like clover too.

[HeyWayne]

I'm going to sow some poppies at the front of my plot - it's an almost unusable (for veg) place, but would make a nice frontage to my plot. Might make a rockery there eventually, use up all the random rocks and stones I've found on the plot.

[Waffler]

Dare I say it.. in the right place... (ie NOT my lottie)... bindweed is really pretty

I like clover too.

Wash your mouth out with soap and water!!!

Actually, when we went to Madeira a couple of years back, it was growing wild and the flowers had a real mix of colours; you're right, it is pretty, but WHAT A PAIN!

[HeyWayne]

Ooh, I've just thought of another. Not strictly speaking a flower, more a shrub I think. I've no idea what it's called, but you see a lot of it this time of year (seem to always remember seeing it whenever we go to Centre Parcs - Sherwood). Its a really prickly looking bush with small yellow flowers. I love the smell of it. Lot's of it in Northern Ireland too, my dad says its called "Whip", and they used to crush the flowers and boil them with their eggs at Easter - turning them a vivid yellow....

[Nicos]

Is that gorse you're thinking of??
I love poppies too- just never know when or if they will grow ( well- for me anyway)