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what's your favorite flower?
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rapier



Joined: 16 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote



I grew up with this...the Flame lily (Gloriosa superba). A rare and beautiful flower found in the shaded, remote forest areas of Africa.
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The Man known as The Man



Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!

PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Swiss James wrote:
Come back Joe Thanks, all is forgiven

Joe Thanks, its time for you to stop abusing steroids.


JOe Thanks, you're a MENSA and you didn't even know it, smrt guy.


HTH
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Harin



Joined: 03 May 2004
Location: Garden of Eden

PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rapier wrote:


I grew up with this...the Flame lily (Gloriosa superba). A rare and beautiful flower found in the shaded, remote forest areas of Africa.


rapier, i did not know you grew up in africa. Shocked Shocked
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rapier



Joined: 16 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Harin wrote:
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rapier, i did not know you grew up in africa. Shocked Shocked


Oh yeah..14 years there... The sights and smells of flowers, and moreso, trees really take me back there: The jacaranda has a distinctive "perfume after the rains:


Also, The flamboyant used line the wide streets with color on those long hot, dusty days...
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eamo



Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm too hard to like flowers.....ok..the buttercup!
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peemil



Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Location: Koowoompa

PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote



Lately all I've been dreaming of is home. I have dreams where I can't board the flight, where I can't leave the apartment and where I miss the flight.

Six years overseas. I want to go home and smell the wattle.


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matthews_world



Joined: 15 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Grew up with these...




Love what Korean kids do with these

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Harin



Joined: 03 May 2004
Location: Garden of Eden

PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

matthews world.....aren't they just plain weeds???
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jinglejangle



Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Location: Far far far away.

PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

matthews_world wrote:

Love what Korean kids do with these



I'm afraid to ask, but, what DO Korean kids do with those?

Oh, and Harin. What is "Just a weed" anyway?

Do some flowers fail to meet up to your exacting criteria? Is there some sort of testing to be qualified as a "good" flower? A right of passage? A secret handshake?

What if I said, "You like HARIN?!?! But she/he's just a common netizen!"
What then Netizen scum? Shall I pull you up by the roots and throw you in the compost? Or maybe burn you half alive in a brush pile?

Wink Wink Wink Wink Wink
Very Happy Very Happy Laughing Laughing Laughing
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Harin



Joined: 03 May 2004
Location: Garden of Eden

PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"How did this come here,... I didn't plant it" is the first reaction when a 'weed' is spotted.

they are always too dominant with the ability to reseed themselves. What is a weed??? any undesired, uncultivated plant that grows out of place and competes with other plants for water, nutrients and space is a weed.

yes, weeds can be pretty sometimes, but not always.
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sonofthedarkstranger



Joined: 15 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 1:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a thistle, is it not?
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mumblebee



Joined: 26 Jun 2004
Location: Andong

PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

those tiny fragrant violets (actually hard to find it seems...mostly you find the non-fragrent, larger violas) for the smell, but for looks, wild crocuses.

When I lived in Victoria (BC) my house was right next to a patch of wild Garry Oak meadow...come February, the ground would be literally carpeted with small low-growing crocuses in white, yellows and purples. It was truly enchanting.
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Plume D'ella Plumeria



Joined: 10 Jan 2005
Location: The Lost Horizon

PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Plumeria. Of course!
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Pangit



Joined: 02 Sep 2004
Location: Puet mo.

PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sampaguita. Kids used to sell them as garlands when I was growing up. They're so small and smell so delicate, you would think that children, with their small and precious hands, would be the only ones capable of stringing them together. People would hang them from their rearview mirrors and make their cars smell so fragrant that you would have to enjoy a ride if one of these were present in the vehicle. Sometimes Jasmine reminds me of the smell and of home. Sometimes Jasmine doesn't come close enough.
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Toby



Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss

PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Say it with flowers - give her a triffid.
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