Official TEG Poll: Which is your favorite Summer Flower to plant?

[lcertuche]

I love any flowers but I plant marigolds for the garden and I like zinnias for quick and pretty blooms. There is always some ready for picking all summer long.

 

[journey11]

Mine would mostly be annuals... Sunflowers!!...first and foremost. Then dahlias, pink cosmos and zinnias. Also gladiolas, my favorite for cutting, a perennial.

I have several roses, but I can't say they're my favorite. Too needy! I prefer those carefree, old favorites above.

 

[Nyboy]

Dahlias are fast becoming Favorite for me

 

[Collector]

Gladiolas were my grandmas favorite flower. She would add to her collection every year when she could.

 

[Smart Red]

Glads for my dad. They were his favorite. Dahlias are a favorite of mine although I didn't have any to over winter so there's none this season. What I really want to get started are some of the old fashion hollyhocks along the south side of the woodshop.

 

[Collector]

Glads for my dad. They were his favorite. Dahlias are a favorite of mine although I didn't have any to over winter so there's none this season. What I really want to get started are some of the old fashion hollyhocks along the south side of the woodshop.

Hollyhocks were my dads favorite flowers they really are beautiful.

 

[ducks4you]

I plant roses in the Spring, BUT, I love marigolds (they do help some with bug control), easy to grow from seed, and I LOVE nasturtiums which spread like a groundcover then die back, like the good, little annuals that they are. They also come in some newer colors like cherry red, which I planted at my DD's place in containers. I kinda like impatiens, but you CAN kill them. I like was begonias and, of course, geraniums. Geraniums seem to handle just about anything but a frost.

 

[TheCuteOrpington]

Buddlia, summer HAS to have buddlia or there is no point of a garden! in my mind.....

Here are some pics of my pretty blooms!

Pros:
Attract lots of cute bees
Smell is better than a rose
Tiny detailed beautiful flowers
Quick grower
Cons:
They attract a few oriental hornets, but they are in the middle-east, England they don't have them so it depends where you are for this con

I think I have the "summer lilac" variety.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddleja_davidii

 

[Susannah]

Buddlias are beautiful and have so much going for them.

One of my loves is the heritage style roses and this is my 'Monsieur Tillier', 1891
It was the first rose I planted.

 

[thistlebloom]

Buddlias are beautiful and have so much going for them.

One of my loves is the heritage style roses and this is my 'Monsieur Tillier', 1891
It was the first rose I planted.

Beautiful picture. I bet it has a lovely fragrance too!