If you want to be surrounded by flowers you have to take the time to do the watering and weeding and nurturing and the caring. Do you?

I'm TOTALLY with you Walt! Years ago my son and his then-wife had an apartment in northern California on the water. They were on a slight hill  and my then daughter-in-law who had a VERY GREEN THUMB decided she wanted wildflowers there. So she bought the seeds and tossed them around randomly. When I arrived for a visit I could not believe how beautiful it was! You name the color. She had it in her garden. To this day I see how beautiful wild can be. I don't know what foxglove it. My ignorance is very bigly and my  knowledge is small. I know carnations and orchids and camellias and gardenias and roses and lilies and iris. My then daughter-in-law had a huge book on flowers and you know what? She showed me a flower called a roseybelle. Or something close to that. When they moved from their apartment and bought a home in Castro Valley she planted some in her garden and they were blooming when I visited. I often refer to myself as RoseyBelle now because well it reminds me of her and her kindness and loving ways. In fact I named a red truck we bought RoseyBelle because I drove it while Jim drove our car.  So RoseyBelle drove RoseyBelle. I LOVED it! SIGH. Jim has green thumbs. Every finger on each hand of mine is brown. My history of killing plants that "are very sturdy and easy to grow" is littered with corpses. I don't know why. Thank you for your reply Walt! :) This post was edited by RosieG at April 16, 2019 1:02 PM MDT

So sorry I got back to this response so late Walt! So beautiful to start my days with gorgeous FLOWERS! Yours I trust? Wow! Thank you for sharing them with us! It gives me a nifty head start mood-wise! So is this Foxglove then? They look like little bells! If you listen very closely can you hear them ringing too? Happy  Tuesday to ya! Are they blooming now?

Yes, these are some examples of foxglove.  They also have purple.
No, they aren't mine.  I have a brown thumb and kill anything I try to grow.

You and me both kiddo. Since I can remember. Why that is I do not know. Thank you again for your reply and especially for sharing the flowers. :)

Thank you for your reply og and Happy Tuesday to thee.

I'm going to Google it L. I have heard of peony but as I told Walt my ignorance about flowers is bigly. My mom used to have a Gardenia bush by the steps in the front of the house and also a Camellia bush. Camellias have no fragrance that I recall but the Gardenias? I used to pluck one and let it float in a small dish of water. Right now the orange tree in the next door neighbor's yard is loaded with blossoms and when I take out the trash the fragrance would knock your socks off if you were wearing any! Is the scent of a Peony comparable to any other flower? Thank you for your reply and Happy Tuesday! :)

Peonies have a sweet floral smell.  I can't think of what flower smells the same, but if you have a bush near a window, when it's a warm day, the scent wafts through the house and it's gorgeous.  

Sounds awesome L! Mom used to have a night-blooming jasmine plant under a window and boy it surely smelled sweet! Thank you for your world.

I love the smell of honeysuckle, too.  My sister had it all over her back yard and it was delicious.

This is one variation of peony.

I am notorious for my brown thumbs and fingers Sharon. I can't tell you how  many plants have died in my care. It doesn't matter what I do or how I do it I always kill them. Jim, on the other hand, has green thumbs and fingers. I follow instructions to the letter. They die. I guess it's a knack or a gift or some magical power some are endowed with and some aren't. I am very good at weeding and I did have great success long ago with my vegetable garden. I also grew strawberries. Onions and carrots and zuccini  and cucumbers. I even tried growing potatoes with limited success. Never had much luck with tomatoes and when I tried to grow winter vegetables none of them were edible.  My dream was to go out in the backyard and pick my dinner! We have a friend who does that.  But where we live now there is no room for a garden. We do have a prolific lemon tree in our backyard and our neighbor with the orange trees told us to pick any we can reach. He has about 4 orange trees and one abuts the wall between us and hangs over into our yard. Thank you for your reply and Happy Tuesday. We all have different talents of course. That's what makes life interesting! :)