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 😃

Petunias
Snow drops
Sweet peas

Well I’ll buck the trends with my 3 😂

Cannas
Colocasias
Eucomis

Stocks for the amazing scent.
Tulips
Wisteria flowers as they are just beautiful

Haven't read the thread yet but here goes

Old fashioned smelling roses
Cosmos
Reubeckia

Hydrangeas
Hellebore...love love!!
Purple tulips....anything purple really.
Trees
Scots Pine
Silver Birch

Euphorbias are one of my favourite plants - particularly wulfenii at this time of year. Also love mellifera

Rambling roses with simple flowers

Honeysuckle for me - my favourite smell 🙂

Am going to be cheeky with a fourth - i love a tall sage with blue flowers, uliginosa i think

Snapdragons because I remember seeing them on holiday as a kid and thinking their shape was something out of a fairy story.

Lavender & Echinachea & Verbena to help the bees 🐝. My mum gas these planted in her back garden & she gets regular stripy visitors.

(I don't have a garden)

Pansies - because of my disabilities I struggle with gardening - but I have these all over my garden - bright, tough, bloom for ever, month after month. And minimum effort.

Sweet peas - I love the scent and they are very nostalgic for me.

Japanese anemones - elegant plants that flower well into the end of September.

Japanese Anemone
Fuji cherry
Clematis (any type will do, but if I had to choose just one, I’d pick Clematis Montana)

That tough… blossom trees would definitely be in there, any type! They are just stunning.
Spring is my favourite season & I’m in my element right now. Every time I see a blossom tree, I point it out like a kid.

Tulips - I love the simplicity of them, the long straight stems and the beautiful shape of the petals. We have red, pink and purple ones in our garden at the moment.

Eucalyptus or Lavender as my third choice ( I can’t decide!) I love them both. The smell and how they look. The Bluey/green shade of the leaves. Just stunning.

So hard!

im going with:

snowdrops
sweet peas
marigolds

Blossom
Acers
Roses

Pretty much dominate our garden by choice

poppies
big flowered roses
wisteria

My wisteria is my absolute favourite and is a thing of beauty. I can spend ages sitting looking at it when in flower.

Peach coloured pompom dahlias
pale blue delphiniums
lavender

Malvern Hills climbing rose (yellow/white, also love the name, Graham Thomas might be even more beautiful but I don't like the name)

Any apple or plum blossom on a fruiting tree

Sweet peas, any colour. I'm trying to grow them for the first time this year.

Don't think anyone's said Foxgloves yet. I love a low maintenance plant!

Well, I planted a tiny white one from a 3 inch pot in 2010. It now covers the entire shady, damp side of the fence that never gets any direct sunlight and grows from mid February to the point at which it falls over sometime around October. A real gardener rather than a shove-it-in-the-ground-and-see-what-happens would probably create some bendy supports to catch it around July.

My favourite flowers are Sweetpeas, Forget-Me-Nots, Clove Scented Pinks and Gypsophila. Can't do three either - the first two are because my Grandparents' front garden was more FMN than grass, except for the Sweetpeas Granddad would grow up the wall outside their bedroom for my Grandma to see and smell from her very elegant dressing table (he'd cut her a bunch every couple of days). Pinks because of the scent, Gyp because I associate it with happy events in bouquets where there were flowers, little triangle sandwiches and party dresses.

Climbers would be native Woodbine and rambling/wild roses - I love the clouds of scent from them at night - I used to have both in my garden (long story, won't bore or depress you with what happened) and you could genuinely smell them from the next street, the rose being filled with bees during the day, giant helicopter buzzing moths in the Woodbine by night.

For trees, Silver Birch would be my favourite except for it doing its best to stop me breathing every Spring. I'll like it again once the catkins have finished. Rest of the time, Cherry Blossom - our primary school was given some Sakura peace trees from Japan a few years before I started there back in the 70s and every Spring, we'd play under a carpet of them with petals coming down like confetti.

Every time I see a blossom tree, I point it out like a kid.

We have lots on our road & the council planted some more a few years ago which is great.

Jasmine, sunflowers and snowdrops.

Peony - Mother’s choice
Hydrangea - runaway bride
Astrantia - major alba

also love geums and violas ❤️

Im excited! Never grown VB but have ordered some bare root ones and some nepeta which I hope the cat will like.

Im excited! Never grown VB but have ordered some bare root ones and some nepeta which I hope the cat will like

Unfortunately my cat 'liked' my nepeta into oblivion 🙁

Our cat nibbles away at the nepeta but it reaches a point where it's toughened enough that he just sleeps on it in the sun. It does turn him wild when it's first growing though.

@NeverDropYourMooncup oh Cherry blossom - it's just sublime at it's peak. I've 3 blossom trees in my (tiny) garden which in about 10 years I'll probably regret having planted.

A gardener friend is sniffy - he says they are a bit all no knickers and furcoat as not much else happens for the rest of the year.

Although I've already given three favourites earlier, I do absolutely love tulips for spring flowering.

Unfortunately, due to the very high winds we are having at the moment, they are being battered around quite a lot and the petals are gradually falling off the stems. 😡

I also love forget-me-nots, azaleas and all my clematis plants, Blue Angel, Guernsey Cream, Montana, General Sikorsky and Ernest Markham. I've also got Princess Diana but this is the first year so hoping she will also become a favourite once she flowers.