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 😃

Oak tree.
Beech hedge.
Holly bush.

If I could add a fourth and/or one choice had to be a flower, it would be a daffodil.

Rose - Gertrude jekyl- smells divine
Giant oriental poppies
white foxgloves

@Gotabadfeelingaboutthis

What do you do with all the spider plant babies?

AND the bark is beautiful. I'm with you too pp, not sniffy gardener friend!

Weeping crab apple. Interesting all year round but stunning in bloom ( now)

Wall flowers - scent is so nostalgic

My neighbours rose - beautiful climber that’s had flowers literally all year!

I would chose sweet peas but I find them quite needy. I normally have to plant a few batches to get them to the flowering stage.

Agapanthus, salvia and astrantia.

but if I were only to plant three plants in my garden, they’d be euphorbia, hydrangeas and jasmine as they’re so low maintenance and impactful.

edited to say that I can’t believe I’ve left out geraniums.

Some of them I replant in new pots to grow my little spider plant army, or give to friends or take to work to brighten the place up. But sometimes I just leave them on the plant and it gets nice dangly bits which it seems quite happy with.

Parrot tulips - can't have them as they get eaten by the deer.

Wisteria - well worth the wait.

Pin Parasol - such a gorgeous tree and now under threat from the tortoise scale bug.

Lychnis
Cosmos
Rudbeckia

Salvia - probably nemorosa but I do love Jezebel and cherry lips too.

Anemone hadspen abundance (or any other pink Japanese anemone)

Dogwood - I don’t have space for it in my garden but am desperate to find somewhere to put one! Just love the colours

I do love cherry trees, magnolias, California poppies, osteospermums, cerinthe, violas, and in fact most flowers! Definitely a maximalist gardener, every inch of my borders is jammed with stuff.

I have a wonderful evergreen climber which is still flowering. I do not know exactly what it is but remember the second word on the label as being jasminoides. It is not a winter jasmine as those are yellow and this is white. Every year it flowers from late August to well into December.

Trachelospermum jasminoides?

I have done a bit of digging and discovered that it is a Pandorea jasminoides ‘Lady Di’

It is such a lovely thing and it is wonderful to look out on a fence covered in white blossom in December!

Anything that grows fruit.
Cherries, plums and pears preferably.

Tough question OP!

Helebores for the lovely winter flowers
Daffodils because I adore the Spring
and Roses. I haven’t seen a rose yet that I didn’t like.

Sweet peas, big red tulips, pansies, with big yellow daffodils a close fourth.