Specialty Gardening: Murmur's idea: Adjective's for describing flowers, 1 by Illoquin

Illoquin wrote:
Joe, this is a really good one -> 'Coquettish'

Okay -- Here are some from me:

Classic - Darwin Hybrid Tulips

Vermonty - Hollyhocks at the back door. The back door is a Dutch-door

Cottagy - Hollyhocks, and Roses and Delphiniums -- growing with abandon (okay to substitute foxgloves for any of the aforementioned)

Tropical - Hibiscus

As you can see, I don't have the flair. I need to think 'personality' and I can only come up with 'geography' LOL!

Princess, 'Festive' is wonderfully descriptive, but I can't think of anything besides those wonderfully speckled mimulus. 'Festive' and 'flamboyant' -- Are you sure you're not from New Orleans instead of Baton Rouge? LOL

'Flamboyant' could be good, too. Take a look at the split corona (Div 11) 'Trigonometry' daffodil below
http://www.web-ster.com/havensr/mitsch/exhibition.html --> scroll down, they're in alpha order. I pasted it below.

Let me try to redeem myself with some better descriptive terms:

Shy -- downfacing pink or white turkscap-style lilies with little freckles.

Reticent - down facing pastel Columbine with long spurs.

Exuberant - Fritellaria imperalis

Magical - Crocosmias (for Mark, Mr. Crocosmia LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Dangerous - Fritileria persica

Sturdy - Calla Lilies

Beefy - for PGZ5 - Those asiatic liles with the big flowers crammed too close together on the stem....the stem being 3/4 in diameter on a 38" tall plant.

Optimistic - Yellow daffodils

Friendly - White Daisy w/ Yellow center

Logical - Hostas

Critter, the way you're expanding beds, I thought you had acres..."the orchard" was what gave the impression, I think, but the phrase, "adding more beds" might have helped reinforce the impression. LOL!

And I'll add one more, "Vulgar" for Geminii Sage -- Lilium speciosum and some of the species impatiens. LOL!

Suzy

This message was edited Feb 8, 2007 3:48 AM