I'm a canna which is great because hummers will be my best friends. LOL
What kind of flower are you ?
Funny, Ivy!
I'm a canna as well! Maybe I will need to plant a few.
Gee, I didn't even think of attracting hummers to myself...too cool.
I hadn't thought of that either.
I'm a hummer magnet!
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I'm a snapdragon,too!
I'm an Echinacea! I love them and have lots of them!
Marilyn
I'm a hydrangea. There's 2 of us now!
You are just a little bit of a show off and like to prove just what you can do. Every time someone double-dog-dared you, you proved that not only could you do it, but you could do it with style."
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This was fun - some of the possible answers were hilarious. Says I'm a violet - I was hoping for something a little more edgy. My whole front lawn (shady) is violets - I've been looking for someway to get rid of them and still have grass.
Kay
Well I'm claiming to be a snapdragon since thats the first answer I got. Then I went back and took it more times only to find out I could be a violet or a daisy. Now I'd like to see the whole list of possibles!
I would too. I wish there was a way to see all of the discriptions.
I'm a violet. BooHoo! I don't like them and I don't think I'm all that shy. I think I'd rather be a daylily so I could start each day looking new and beautiful. Of course that means I'd end each day looking old and wilted, but since that's how I look all the time now, maybe it would not be such a bad deal.
susan
This message was edited Sep 12, 2006 6:55 AM
I just took it with some crazy answers to see if I could get something we hadn't already seen. I'm a nigella
'Many people think you are just a little bit odd, but you consider yourself a little eccentric. You find new experiences exciting and fulfilling.'
now I have to look up nigella
edit: ahhh...love-in-a-mist. that's not bad, kind of romantic
This message was edited Aug 13, 2006 1:07 PM
I'm a Canna, and so is DH. He's says he knew we were compatible. LOL
Susan, ROTFL!!!! And I want to be a daylily too!
I am a daffodil, and that was fun
Beck
So, there were to many questions that I didn't feel had a right answer or more than one answer was right, so I went through and tried all the answers that were approached. Here's what I got in order of most common/correct. I copied and included the write-ups because I've been curious about others.
You Are a Daisy
"You are just a sweet person. When a friend needs a shoulder to cry on, you are happy to offer yours with a box of tissues as well. Once in awhile, you wish you could be a little more dramatic but then sensibility sets back in and you know that you are perfect the way you are."
You Are a Violet
"You have a shy personality. You tend to hesitate before trying new things or meeting new people. But once people get to know you, you open up and show the world what you are really all about."
You Are a Morning Glory
Dedicated is one word for your. You have a tendency to overwhelm other people occasionally with your enthusiasm for life.
You Are an Echinacea
"You are a health conscious person, both your health and the health of others. You know all about the health benefits and dangers of the world around you."
You Are a Snapdragon
"Mischief is your middle name, but your first is friend. You are quite the prankster that loves to make other people laugh."
In other words you have an eclectic personality (split personality). lol
I would accept that, if asked to come up with one word to describe myself it would be "contradiction".
I am a canna which is an ok description.
"You stand up for what you believe in, even if it gets in the way of what other people think. You are proud of yourself and your accomplishments and you enjoy letting people know that."
I'm a snapdragon. They are one of my favorites!
I'm a violet too, Pirl. Go figure.... Neither one of us is the slightest bit shy.
JasperDale - you fit your description!
Zuzu - and we're hardly hesitant, never in nurseries!
Maybe you ladies have overcome your hidden violet-like qualities ;^)
(Blushing) we're trying!
When I'm not a canna, I'm a sunflower!
Fun thread - took it twice, I'm an Echinacea
"You are a health conscious person, both your health and the health of others. You know all about the health benefits and dangers of the world around you."
I guess that fits the pharmacists part of me ;-) and the fibromyalgia battling part too ....
don't grow them - I don't think they grow here, at least I haven't tried - think they're late bloomers?
Echinacea wold be fine for you. Also known as coneflower (mostly the purple cone flower but there are other colors), it actually will bloom in early summer, and with deadheading may repeat. Mine overlap with the somewhat later Black-eyed Susans. It spreads well but not invasively. Try it. And if you are so inclined, make a tincture of the roots to treat your hopefully infrequent colds!.
I love this thread. It could go on forever!
Peter
Maybe I will try it next summer! Unfortunately my colds are almost non-stop all winter (I'm currently battling the first of the season - and have been for over a week!) so I really could use something to keep them away!
Just saw the thread. great quiz and...................
Canna-- here. Add one more canna to the tally.
Sure are a lot of snapdragons?
calvin
when I started this thread I never dreamed it would take on a life of it's own. I'm glad everyone is having so much fun. I'll take a count again some day soon.
rannveig - The last research I saw reported said that echinacea doesn't work; but thoe that swear by it say to take it immediately at the start of an episode, in a tincture.
Peter
Thanks peter - I'm not too sure about how effective it is - I've heard it's mainly helpful to prevent colds rather than fixing them once you've got them. I've taken olive leave extracts and I do belive that helps if you take it immediatly when you're feeling a cold coming on.
But I might try growing the echinacea - as a pharmacist I'm interested in growing plants with "medicinal powers" :o)
besides, echinacea are just great flowers to grow, easy, tough, long-lasting. Rannveig, can you get the new varieties? seems there are new ones every time a catalog comes out.
Well, I've seen Echinacea seeds available at the garden centers in spring - don't know what varieties - but they're available. After my shockingly expensive Helleborus seed import I don't know if the door on ordering seed on-line has just closed on me. I'm still recovering from the shock - there were so many more seeds I wanted to order in the future! :-( The variety of perennial seed at the garden centers is really limited - it's mostly annuals - and I'm not ready to accept having the garden centers govern what perennials I can try out (most of the seeds they have are something I already have - or tryed) ....... I'm feeling very restricted at the moment.
It's such a shame that the climate restricts your gardening and then you can't even get the things you want to try. I suppose seed collected from a private garden would not be allowed in at all? Can we smuggle them in to you a few at a time ;-)
Thanks gram, that's very kind of you! Actually I think thatīs allowed. I had to fill in some report for some agriculture research bureau listing the name of the plants I was ordering seed from. Since this is the first time I've had any trouble with ordering seed I called and asked for the reason for all this paperwork and trouble and asked if I could trade seed with others outside Iceland. She said that would be ok, but I have to fill out the report everytime. I'll have to check out the trade forum :-)
Add another snapdragon to the list! They were always my favorite flower as a child because you can make them "talk." The first time I showed that to my Loving Husband was in an outdoor cafe, I was giggling and playing with the flowers and he was trying to look inconspicuous (hard for him to do at 6'5")
plantnutga
This message was edited Sep 10, 2006 11:39 AM
that's cute, plantnuga. it's fun when a flower brings back a childhood memory. i've always loved snapdragons for that reason, too. and I'll bet some of the passersby knew exactly what you were doing LOL
I'm an echinacea--but I don't even like them much--what does that mean?!
I think I'll take the quiz over again and tell them I like ice cream with peanut butter and see if I can be a rudbeckia! Or a daffodil. I wonder what kinds of answers a 'daffodil' result requires?