Mine are delphiniums, which don't want to grow here. Bachelor Buttons and Red Poppies in the fields are my memories and it also irked me that the poppies always died a couple of hours after being put in a vase. Your Bachelor Buttons look great.

anneliese, I remember the fields with the red poppies.
delphiniums are pretty, but I have never grown them so I don't know how they would do here in CA.

Here is a link that might be useful: red poppies and bachelor buttons

I must admit that I am a retired 3rd generation florist. So many flowers. My grandfather got us into the business by growing glads for resale; he did that for many years.

I used to garden only for the veggies and it was until the past 10 years that I moved on to flowers.

Here is one that is really cool from this spring.

I also began raising iris. I have more than 250 in six beds. This one is really showy.

Reblooming iris are also in one of the beds. I have about 6 of these right now.

I love bachelor buttons. Yours look just lovely. I actually ordered some seeds a few weeks ago. Can't wait to grow them next year, I'm hoping they'll come back for me if I don't mulch around them.

My favorite flower is probably this peony. I have no idea what they are... I inherited them from the PO. I am looking forward to them next spring. :o)

I just love flowers, so thanks for posting.
Jim, your flowers are beautiful and you certainly have the eye for colors.

Another iris, from May of this year.

Another iris in front of the peony bed.

Hi thegardenat, I live in CA zone 10 and they sure self sow here.
I don't know how they will do in zone 5.
Please keep in touch and let us know how they are doing.
Thanks for posting.

I will give them a shot - they are pretty not to :)

How can I choose just one?! I love them all. Someone will say this dislike something and call it a weed. And I'll think, how can you say no to ANY flower? I cannot think of one flower I don't like. And plant. I even grow things like eggplant or potato for the flowers. I love wild violets and buttercups. Such a joy to see in cold weather. My favorite? I am a sucker for colubmines. Especially the throughly bred ones; Aquilegia vulgaris'Barlow Blue' is my top favorite.

Here is a link that might be useful: 'Barlow Blue'

blue flax Love how it sways with a breeze

We had our first frost, last night--not hard enough to kill most of the flowers, but they look a little droopy, today, and will be gone, soon. These lovely pictures will be wonderful to look at, when it's really 'frosty'.

Thanks to all who posted them.

After seeing all the pretty flowers, I'm getting the planting bug.lol.