Flowers are my happy place, so let’s talk about them!

This is a really hard question for me. I’m split between foxgloves and bluebells. I love foxgloves for their appearance- they’re ornate and quickly catch your attention. The colour range (pink, purplish pink, purple, white) and patterns are beautiful.

I love bluebells because they carpet the woods in a brilliant blue during spring, which is so refreshing to look at.

(However, honeysuckle has the best fragrance of all – by far. 😅)

Looking forward to reading responses! Maybe I’ll learn something new


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  4. Erantis (*Eranthis hyemalis*). A small yellow flower blooming through the snow in February. The very first sign of spring while nature is still in the claws of the long, dark winter.

    (That and snowdrops. But erantis are so yellow).

  6. (Portugal)

    The bird-of-paradise (*Strelizia reginae*) is a big “I’m home” sign for me. Though it is native to South Africa, it grows very well in your average portuguese garden and for that reason it is very popular. My parents’ little cul-de-sac is full of them, my aunt has an almost unmanageable bush of them, and so those showy purple and orange flowers will always be synonymous with home for me.

    Likewise, blue hydrangeas (*Hydrangea macrophylla*), natives to East Asia. They grow huge and bushy and hard to contain in my region since they like the hot summers and very wet, mild winters, and the light acidity natural to our granitic soil keeps their flowers consistently bright blue. My grandmother had hydrangea bushes larger than an adult in her garden, and they were always a favourite of mine.

  8. Poppies.

    Not exclusive to Belgium of course, but famous through the poem “In Flanders fields”

    There’s something poetic about them. They’re “pioneer” plants, so they will be the first to show on ploughed fields – symbolizing resurrection and resilience.

    I work for the railroad and love the contrast of that delicate, bright red flower working its way between the brutality of ballast rocks and steel.

  10. Arctic starflower. Whenever I see them I’m always having some sort of adventure. 

  11. My answer is either the red poppy or the myosotis (german: “Vergissmeinnicht” – lit.: “Don’t forget me”) as they both are flowers of remembrance and peace. The poppies were the first flowers to bloom on the battlefields after the end of world War one and during the war, because their seeds were adapted pretty well to grow on the artillery torn landscape and the myosis was picked in Germany for the same purpose as the poppy in the anglophone world due to their name .

  12. If it goes to the fregrsnce, I’d choose lily of the valley ( I love it) or lilac flower. The first one is quite common in forest nearby my, and the second one, rather in private yards.

    In perfumes, I love iris ( like in Dior homme), but i guess that the excract are being made from some foreign iris. But I had seen really big, wild one on a swamp, let me search – *Iris pseudacorus!*

  13. Scotland – not the most beautiful compared to other answers, but I like the purple heather growing on the hills and moors.

  14. While original from Türkiye, now famous for the Netherlands I like the tulip. So much variations in color and shape. And they remind me of spring. But also like the crocus.

  15. Almond tree blossoms, if those count. They look so pretty when they bloom and are also tied to a local legend. Back when the Moors controlled the land a king married a princess from the north, but she was sad as she missed her homeland and the snow. So the king planted almond trees all across the region so that when they bloomed they would look like snow and make the princess feel more at home.

  17. I doubt that it is natural from here (Portugal), but there are a lot, at least there used to be, in the south.

    But my favourites are almond blossoms.

  18. Cyclamens, this summer you can find yourself surrounded by them on the Alps and the perfume mixed with summer rain is something that unlocks an ancestral sense of satisfaction for me.

  19. I love bluebells for the exact same reason!

    I feel like lavender fields are often associated with France and especially Provence.

  20. What a tough question ahah.
    I have a lot of different ones lol, so… I’ll go with the dandelion as well. It’s a flower that I find very poetic, especially when it’s in its seed form. I learned last year that the German word for dandelions in seeds (because they have two different words for the different shapes) is “Pusteblume”, which literally means flower to blow. It’s even more poetic.

    But maybe I’d choose also wood anemones, there’s plenty in the woods in my village of birth, it’s super nice to see them blooming, carpeting the woods!

    I was going to write about another flower, but I’ll stop here, otherwise I’ll put all my favorites :’)

  21. Probably a bluet / centaury / knapweed in Belarus, because it’s an iconic flower and a symbol of my country.

  23. If I’m going with something typically English, then Bluebells! I know other countries have them but they’re particularly a symbol of woodlands in late spring here. I also love sunflowers and poppies; in June you can find fields almost blood red when you go deep into the Kent countryside. I’m Irish even though I live in England and for my home country I would say the Easter lily (if we’re being really patriotic! The Easter lily was worn by people during the Easter Rising, hence its name, when someone was killed) and the Sea Aster.

  24. Ooh I like flowers too!!

    None of these are exclusive to Italy (I think), but:

    I like mimosa because it’s fluffy, bright, has a sweet smell and it is the first signal that spring is coming back

    I love wisteria because it smells like spring. It smells of days getting longer and warmer. Of nights out with friends and good expectations

    I also love oleanders because they smell like summer nights, cicadas singing, fireflies and first loves

    And I also like poppies, because they are bright red and I like seeing fields spotted with them

  25. The simple lily of the valley. Love its fragrance that doesn’t cause me allergic reactions, plus the fact that it’s one of the most toxic plants in the world.

  26. I don’t know if it’s my absolute favourite flower but the first one that came to my mind is the woodland geranium. It was very common in the forests near my childhood home and was a symbol of summer, there aren’t that many showy, large and colourful flowers growing in forests here. It’s sometimes called the midsummer flower, though these days it usually has finished flowering by midsummer.

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