What are your absolute FAVE top 3 plants/flowers

[Mrsplants]

Just for fun!

If you had to pick your top 3 favourite flowers, plants, shrubs or trees, what would you pick?

For me (it took a while to decide!):

1. Amethyst lips, salvia. I love this because it seems to flower forever in my garden, smells amazing and doesn’t seem to require much care from me.
2. Honeysuckle, the white and yellow one (not sure of the proper name!). I just love how fragrant it is. When I’m on a walk I always smell it before I see it.
3. Anemone ‘Mr Fokker’ and ‘sylphide’. They are like poppies but blue and pink. They are quite tall so stand out in my borders and produce the most beautiful flowers in spring.

Looking forward to hearing what everyone else picks 😃

Snake's head fritillaries
Gazanias
Sunflowers, all varieties.

Reserve: Dicentra

At the moment . . .

Saxifrage
Mexican fleabane
Verbena (the tall one)

Wisteria (all of them)
Irises (bearded ones and siberica)
Peonies (all of them except I am not keen on bowl of beauty).

lupins
nasturtiums
Catalpa tree or ginkgo, can't decide which I love more

My taste in plants and flowers changes all the time but I've had a life long love of pansies, the big blousy ones. It started when I was three or four and my grandparents had red and yellow pansies in their front garden. I remember kneeling down and gazing at the velvety faces and just loving them. My dad was calling me and saying 'Come on or I'm going to go without you!' but honestly I could have stayed there with those flowers forever. I'm 63 now and there are currently pansies in a big tub outside the window, right where I can see them.

It's so difficult to choose just 3! But I guess I'd say:
Rose
Hydrangea
Dahlia

All my David Austin roses.
Lilly of the valley.
Ferns.

White Buddleia - enormous white cones of small flowers that are fragrant. Indestructible and no care other than cutting back once a year.

Myosotis Sylvatica, Wood Forget-me-not. A carpet of cheerful blue flowers in Spring.

Hard to think of only three.

I'll go with my beautiful Rice Paper tree - Tetrapanax. The biggest and best leaves you'll ever see!

Aubretia. So vivid when it gets to the "cascade over the wall" stage.

Acer palmatum. They have such interesting leaves and shapes and colours.

Ferns of all kinds.

Hydrangea
Penstemon
Camellia

Going by what we have most of in our garden.

Roses - must be scented.

Japanese Acers.

No 3 err, can’t decide between tulips or lavender. Lavender I think as it’s the one I wouldn’t be without.

p 3 favourite flowers, plants, shrubs or trees,

I'm cheating as otherwise it will take too long to decide

Favourite 3 trees: Robinia, Harry Lauder Walking Stick & Acer Garnet

3 shrubs/plants: wisteria, camellia, daphne odora

3 flowers: roses specifically David Austin, - Generous Gardener , LD Braithwaite and Agapanthus

Vegemitehoneyontoast

Wrong colour but currently in my front garden

Roses
Lupins
Snapdragons

(With honorable mentions for philadelphus, dianthus, honeysuckle and Calla lilies 😁 ). I'd love to be able to grow tree lilies in our garden, but they just hate it unfortunately.

Roses, I have several, three David Austin and two others. The perfume is just so gorgeous, I absolutely love them.

Penstemons, blue penstemon, it is the most beautiful blue. I think I've lost the one I bought last year so I will be pestering the garden centre in a few weeks time for when the next lot will be in.

Fuschias, so many different varieties, doubles, singles, trailing or upright. The flower profusely and are so pretty. I bought Heidi Ann in Morrisons last week for £1.50, just have to find somewhere to put it now.

I may have cheated but cannot believe I left out peonies as well( !)

Nastertiums, roses and rosemary.

Vebena bonariensis.

Past few years hummingbird hawk moths have visited in the autumn and spend ages flitting about the purple flowers. Self seeded everywhere in my garden, they always find a perfect spot between perennials and flower till first frosts...I leave them till early spring as the birds like the seed heads, then pull them out to let the seedlings grow.

Cosmos, lovely gap filler and flowers for ages.

Nepeta, so easy to grow and seems to survive everything, floods draught, hard clay soil etc. Bees love it and I've seen birds taking leaves away, apparently the smell acts as a kind of disinfectant for their nests.

Daffodils
Tulips
Lychnis

Dandelions
Daisies
Roses.

Forget me not
anthirrinum
lavender

Great idea! Excited to look through the replies. Hard to choose only three but...

Physocarpus (ninebark) - amazing colours, leaves are green through purple, light pink flower buds, white flowers, dark pink seed heads.

Vinca (periwinkle) - everygreen ground cover, good for shade, flowers sporadically but all year.

Cistus (rock rose) - evergreen, prolific delicate papery flowers, amazing peppery-smelling leaves, especially after rain.

Shrub - viburnum plicatum Mariesii. Absolutely breathtaking in May.
Roses - I have over 30 David Austin roses and cannot choose between them, love all of them.
Perennial - probably Salvia Amistad

There’s a time in summer when my hydrangeas, roses and sunflowers are all in bloom together.

I sometimes look at the photos in winter, and can’t quite believe the explosion of colour

Peony
Calla Lilly
Tulips