Uhoh-you got all the ones that immediately sprang to mind!!! Thinking hat on...definitely more challenging.

Strong as an oak
out on a limb

can't see the forest for the trees
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
that goes against the grain (wood grain, that is, so maybe no longer technically a plant?)
You're the apple of my eye
The apple does not fall far from the tree

Me thinks this is not going to be as easy as yesterday but here's a few...
Heard it through the grapevine
A rolling stone gathers no moss
Down the Primrose Path
Shrinking Violet
These are ones I thought of yesterday and wrote them down, just in case :). Maybe I can activate my brain with a cup of coffee and think of some more.

Annette

Two more...
The grass is greener on the other side of the fence
Hit the hay

Make hay while the sun shines
Slender as a reed

Everything's coming up daisies

..or pushing up daisies-lol.

Like white on rice

seeing through rose colored glasses
green as a gourd
smellin' like a rose
bloomin' (used as a euphemism)
my Mom calls everybody 'sweet pea' does that count?

Make like a tree, and leave
Rolling in clover
Kids think we have a money tree

LOL Cyn, my standard answer to anyone who asks how I'm doing... 'Still on the right side of the grass, I'm not ready to look up at the roots yet'.

Some more
Are you nuts
Don't let grass grow under your feet
Don't beat about the bush

Looks like it's going to be another nice day (in the 50's) so as soon as the sun hits the garden I'll be out there doing some more spring cleaning.

Annette

Peaches and cream complexion

Nutty as a fruitcake

Exciting as watching grass grow

Life is just a bowl of cherries

Just a lonely little cabbage in a petunia patch

The corn is as high as an elephant's eye .....(fits both days' trivias!)

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And here's another for yesterday's trivia list - 'Feeling as welcome as a skunk at a lawn party' and did we actually forget 'dog days of summer' ??

Like a rose between two thorns
Sour grapes
Lily white
The bloom is off the rose

OK, 2 coffees, maybe I'm up to this!

Just Peachy.
seedy looking character.
grass doesn't grow on a playground (!)
corny - like a groaner joke
hopped up - drunk

Gee, this is hard.

Nancy.

Thorn in my side

Love that response, Annette.

As American as apple pie
Nip it in the bud
Not for all the tea in China
red as a beet
like comparing apples and oranges
like two peas in a pod
can't squeeze blood from a turnip

willowy (Susie's slender as a reed made me think of this)
did anyone say rosy-cheeked or apple-cheeked
flower child

OOH, I KNOW...HOSTA la vista baby (yeah, yeah, definitely a groaner-time for a break-lol)

Thought of this in bed - going or gone pear shaped. Everything going to heck!!

Nancy.

You all did really well with a tougher category. I counted 59 plant phrases Sunday, versus 148 animal phrases Saturday.

for everyone! (Is that a cop out?)

Thanks for playing trivia, cottage friends.

TM

Hmm...I see a challenge...I'll keep thinking and see what I can come up with for the plant trivia. Of course, mostly I end up thinking of more animal ones-oh well. Thanks, TM!