Favourite Flower Thread

[naut]

Call me crazy, but since this is the Kingdom of Peace and Love I thought that a flower thread would be most appropriate and original.

Mine Sacred Lotus:



So post yours.

[Stig]

Not really a very special looking one:
Red Campion, or Silene dioica

[Tristuskhan]

Galium odoratum
It's not very brilliant either, but it spreads such a sweet smell in the woods by the end of april and it's eau-de-vie is sooo nice...

[Beirut]

Wonderful thread.

I don't know much about flowers but I like tulips. Always reminds me of the friendship between Canada and Holland. Lovely symbology.

[English assassin]

Daffodils. Y'all know what they look like. What they mean is winter is over

[Togakure]

My favorite (and my mother's) is the Japanese Iris.



I also really like Cala Lilies.



One of my most popular photographs is titled "Foot, Snail, and Cala Lily," taken one moist California Spring morning in Mendocino. The composition needed counterpoint, so my sandaled foot was inserted. It worked out well.

[Andres]

Roses

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Stig]

(Let us be... flowery - Beirut)

[Husar]

You don't listen to 90ies hardcore with your woman, Andres?

As for flowers, I don't think I have a favourite, maybe grass.
The Cala Lilies Masamune posted looks very nice.

[Fragony]

Tulips, not only is it the patriotic choice but there is also one hell of a story behind it, the first real market crash.

http://www.stock-market-crash.net/tulip-mania.htm

[Martok]

I second Beirut and Fragony in choosing the tulip. They remind me of my grandmother.

[Myrddraal]

I second English Assasin, but add an illustration


I'm not sure which I prefer, but I also love the time of year when the bluebells carpet the woods.



Ahh the English countryside

[naut]

So much colour! Here all we get is brown dirt and gray-green gum trees.

[Fragony]

Someone said color?


(Someone said "Deleted hotlink pics" - Beirut)

You are no fun at all.

[naut]

:falls off stool:

Wow!!

[Fragony]

It's the keukenhof, worth a visit if you are ever to visit Holland

http://www.keukenhof.nl/nm/english.html

[Myrddraal]

Fragony can't you host it at imageshack so we can see?

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

As a Welshman, how could it be anything other than the daffodil?

[naut]

Frag posted these pictures:

[Jubal_Barca]

Just for the hell of it, moss flowers.

[Fragony]

Frag posted these pictures:

And Beirut just had to delete them. Cutting trees fine we need wood, but pictures of flowers, why hate that I ask?

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

My personal assorted favourites.







Sorry, but I'm not too sure of their names - my very humble floral knowledge extends little beyond knowing the titles of the most simple of flowers.