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Spring and all that (sorry Southern hemisphere people).

Flowers, blooms and blossoms, what are you favorites?

― Anna, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i prefer woods and trees to flowers per se

― gareth, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

more proof that I am a complete ponce, I can walk around Kew gardens for hours, especially in the Orchid house, I love orchids, they're amazing. I also like huge fat daisies.

But I like Karri trees in Australia as well, they're big.

― chris, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm more of a tree man too.Ug. But especially ones with cool leaves like sycamore and willows.

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Every time I start typing an answer to this question a big sledgehammer hovers above my head and a gruff voice shouts "PONCE".

― N., Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i thought emma was in france?

(do you think i can get away with that while she is in france?)

― gareth, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

is it the same voice that shouts it whenever you leave the house?

― chris, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey play nicely.

― Anna, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Although Nick is a ponce

― Anna, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry. Not really.

At the moment I have daffodils on my window sill in an old apple juice bottle. Although I like white flowers of any kind best.

― Anna, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dig the crazy hog weeds and plants that look like they are from the jurassic period. I like the wild foilage that grows really quickly.

― jel --, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A nice ponce though

― chris, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i am poncier than nick. why, i was playing joey beltrams 'fuck all you motherfuckers' only last night

― gareth, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it is me that is shouting 'ponce' at nick. the company is thinking of taking disciplinary action. apparently, mr d cannot take a joke.

tulips are the floral dish o the day. red and yellow or pink and white, they are lovely.

i really need to get to a park or countryside or seaside, sunshine isn't the same when it's only filtered through tall buildings.

― nickie, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The sap is rising.

― DV, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I went to Greenwich Park today and saw lots of squirrels! And lost of stupid pigeons. I hate pigeons. They're stupid.

― DG, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i have been a ponce all my life, but i was only into flowers from about 1992 to 1998. I'm more a leaf man now. Trip to Kew gards this w/e is U&K.

― Alan T, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like gerberas and tulips

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I agree with jim, I love daffodils, tulips and daisies. Such happy flowers. I grow them in my yard. Though this year my tulips were ripped up by my neighbor's cat that bastard...

― jen, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It is autumn here but there are still some roses, which are almost the perfect flower, and cylcamens and autumn crocuses and nirene (sp?) lillies...soon there'll be anemones, snow drops and very early daffodils.

Best spring trees are magnolias, kowhai, cherry and plums, and camelias. Best spring bulbs are probably friesas because they smell so wonderful ...jonquils ditto...tulips and maybe I should start a gardening column somewhere because this must be getting boring...

― isadora, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mapplethorpe's flowers are very nice

― Queen G, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wild flowers are very likeable - ground violet (the yellow kind too) lily of the valley, trillium, jack in the pulpit. Oh and of course, forget me not. On second thought, maybe it's the names that I like so much.

― Kim, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Names of flowers are part of the attraction. The idiots at Yates (gardening chain in NZ) have rebranded love-in-the-mist as 'nigella' Is this not the dummest thing ever?

― isadora, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

True story - I once succumbed to very undignified giggle fits in a local nursery upon discovery of the 'euphemistically' named carpet bugle.

― Kim, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.monrovia.com/PlantInf.nsf/imagelist/8A2DE273628F3BE988 256AD90064FAA2/Picture/0.7C?OpenElement&FieldElemFormat=jpg

Catlin's Giant Carpet Bugle

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lovely picture. I am unfortunately sitting in easy reach of three different floras. But just a few: yellow prickled lawyer, our lady's milk thistle, green vegetable sheep, johnny go to bed at noon, golden-rayed lilly of Japan, and running postman. I wish I could do pictures...

― isadora, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But Nigella is (part of) the Latin name for Love-In-A-Mist. It's not some Nigella Lawson rebranding thing.

― N., Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

jim! hahaaar haah harr... oof. That makes it so much better! Thanx for that!

― Kim, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is Nigella Lawson the cook? because I wasn't thinking of her. Latin binomials are useful, but part of the whole cottage garden charm (and they are a cottage garden-y plant) is the intrigiuing (?sp) names and associations. Eg another name for love-in-a-mist is devil-in-the-fog, so why go for something as staid as nigella?

― isadora, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eleven months pass...

I like irises.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 07:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Second the irises.
I also like poppies quite a bit.

(and I love poppy seed muffins... mmm...)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Eeep! I'm not in the West Country this year and so don't get to see loads of magnolia trees bustin' out all over. Where in London are there loads of these lovely trees so I can go visit them and be reminded of 'Strange Fruit'?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Penshurst

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw some snowdrops last night as I passed the National Cathedral.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

The verges of Glasgow are covered in crocuses at the moment - lovely.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

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