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Do you know your State Flower?
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Don't have to look...California Poppy...one of my favorites!
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Orange blossom
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Well - yes, I know ours - since it's one of about 5 flowers I do know - the rose.
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My state flower if the California Poppy too..although I haven't seen any in ages.
Happy 4th of July to you kopp, have a safe and fun weekend. |
Hi Fodorites, even if you do know your state flower I encourage you to click on the website kopp posted..it is very beautiful!! Thanks kopp
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LoveItaly, no poppies, really? They are serious weeds here in San Jose, and you're not that far away.
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Kopp, that was a beautiful site. It was well worth watching.
Thanks. |
Yes, I'm in San Jose too and we do have a decent amount of poppies in the hills and fields around here. :-)
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Beautiful kopp! Thanks.
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I planted Poppy's in my flower garden in my back yard. Still have a few blooming.
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Honestly you San Jose Fodorites, I hadn't thought about it but I haven't seen any poppies for ages. I use to have them behind our fence in Benicia..I also have noticed we are not having any butterflies where I live either. That bothers me to tell you the truth.
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Down here in Texas, it's the Bluebonnets that we love so much. Peak season is March/April. This year's crop was pitiful as the winter rains never came to germinate them.
Lady Bird Johnson started a program way back when to beautiful the Texas roadways. So in a good rain year, our highways are filled with bluebonnets and other wildflowers. Families tromp through the flowers to get that perfect photo. I love to see the young'uns all dressed up, with their pup, getting the perfect picture! |
kopp...you beat me to it! :)
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California poppies are still blooming on my propery, amazing as it may be!! They are hanging around longer than usual this year. Perhaps it is due to the wet spring.
Kopp, beautiful web site. Thanks. |
Here in Alabama it's the beautiful camellia.
Years ago, the state flower was goldenrod, which is a weed that grows everywhere here, but is the cause of much hay fever distress in the fall! Byrd |
Cherokee rose, GA.
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tiny little violets NJ
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sallyjane - I had to go to the list to look up your flower. Very pretty yet so unlike any rose I've ever seen. Is it fragrant as well?
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Thank you so much, Kopp! The rhododendrons are finished up here in Washington, but what a joy it is to see them when they are in bloom.
I use Jacquie Lawson's "Labrador" cards to send to friends, but I didn't know about this one. I can think of lots of people I'll be sending it to. Happy Fourth, everyone. |
That was a lovely site, kopp. But our Pennsylvania mountain laurel is actually prettier in reality than in Lawson's picture. I think it is because individual sprigs can't convey the look of mountain laurel in bloom...
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Ours was not among those.
The Bougainvillea M (SMdA, Gto.) |
kopp---can you smell the bluebonnets on the breeze when they are blooming?
There is a dwarf cousin (Lupinus breweri) that grows high in the Sierras---a small plant, only inches high in the alpine zone above 10,000 feet. Came across a vast carpet of them on a high plateau while hiking near Mt. Whitney. The fragrance was almost intoxicating. |
Hibiscus
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loveitaly,
Just drive up to Davis--you'll find lots of poppies (my husband's favorite flower) along 113. We keep trying to grow them in the garden, with no luck. |
tuscan - my neighborhood has lots of mountain laurels. They're not blooming yet, but when they do - such a pretty purple!
enzian - can't say I've ever noticed a fragrance from the bluebonnets..hmmm. I'll have to check it out next spring. I remember being at Mount St. Helens one summer, and I couldn't believe when I saw bluebonnets in bloom so high at such a late date. Guess spring is later there than here, lol! mikemo - never knew the bougainvillea was a state flower, even in Mexico. Watch out for the thorns! matnikstym - funny story about hibiscus. I used to live in So CA (left in '95), and I had a dozen or more hibiscus plants in my yard. So I thought I'd try them here in Austin. After all, our weather is sort of like Hawaii's (well, sort of). So one day I planted about 4 different varieties in my front yard. A neighbor walked by and laughed when she saw what I was planting, not giving a clue why the laughter. Next morning, they were all chopped down to the stem. Gone! Turns out, hibiscus are considered dessert for our white tail deer. Guess I gave them a special treat that night! |
We have poppies all over the Monterey Peninsula.
Beautiful card, Kopp - thanks. Happy 4th! |
Yucca here in New Mexico!
Off to look at the link... Lee Ann |
Very nice. Thanks, kopp!
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Pennsylvania - Mountain Laurel, blooms in June
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Unfortunately, bluebonnets have no smell whatsoever. They are beautiful, though, and I also missed them this spring. :-(
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I don't know if this has been posted, but <b> GEORGIA's</b> state flower is the <b>Cherokee Rose.</b> It's a beautiful, old-fashioned flower not so easy to come by now.
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Maryland's is the black-eyed susan.
I've always loved Pennsylvania's mountain laurel it just fills in wooded areas so beautifully. |
Arizona - Saguaro cactus blossom
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The CT Mountain Laurel is lovely when it blooms along roadsides in June/July.
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In South Carolina it is the yellow jasmine which grows in the wild. Smells like Johnson baby talcium powder. Beautiful in the spring.
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The Dogwood Tree (NC)
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Colorado, The Columbine.
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Pennsylvania: The Mountain Laurel, and it is in bloom right now: July 4th today! :)
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In Minnesota we have the Showy Pink Ladyslipper; a gorgeous, kind of rare wild orchid that thrills me whenever I see one!!
Love those Texas bluebonnets, too! |
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