Good timing for purple - can anyone identify this plant? My neighbor thought it was willowleaf but I'm not sure.

An autumn planter by our front entrance when we lived in Holland (a small rowhouse). The garden centers there were so amazing!

East Village restaurant at night

Persian Shield

Puzzle in the time of Covid

@maire_cate I am most NOT-knowledgeable re plants and flowers, but I use an app called SEEK which is wonderful at identifying. Editing to add- it is SEEK by iNaturalist. (And of course, it's free)

Allium from my garden.

@maire_cate, try posting on the Name that Plant forum!

@Rory (Zone 6b), jigsaw puzzles!!! that's about all we did during the shutdown. I was keeping count, but when I got to 34 I stopped counting.... it was depressing. lol!

My only thumbprint African violet.

Thanks for that site Salonva. I'll give it a try. I tried google image search but didn't get a definitive answer. It may help too if I get a close-up of the flower and leaves too. I'm thinking of replacing the salvia on the side of the house because it gets too tall and then falls over. This plant was only about 12 -14" inches and very sturdy.

I was feeling down last week on the 25th anniversary of my mother passing. She was only 52. I sent myself these flowers on a whim from a local florist. They came the same day and were gorgeous! The roses were the best I have seen in a long time and they smelled amazing. I have since cleaned my desk. Still feeling blue though. no idea why :)

My purple lttle toe when I stubbed it last week. Excuse the pedicure.

Maire Cate, my plant id app says its Angelonia. Ive grown that before and it is an annual around here. Very pretty!

Not a big fan of purple but I do like it in the garden. I have muted touches in the house.

I picked these a month ago

hard to tell but this is a big bowl, 16" across

a soup tureen I've had for 30 years. It's big too,

Ded wins for most original :)

Ok, now we are talking. My gardens both here in Maine and in CT are all blue, white, green and purple! Its the only scheme I like. The hydrangeas sometime pop up pink, and I have a swathe of multicolored zinnias in the veggie garden, but I’m really about the cool color scheme. Here are two from this years pool garden in Maine.

I only found a couple purple flowers in the garden.

A purple Mongolian lamb coat

My hair from 2017

Ube mochi ice cream from Trader Joe's:

Thanks again for the plant info.

Party Music - I tend to forget about the Garden side of GW - thanks for the reminder.

Dedtired - your plant id is spot on. My neighbor called it Willowleaf, but aparently the full name is Willowleaaf angelonia. I'll add it to my plant list for spring planting.

My ankle after falling down some steps back in July.

OMG make it stop. Oucccch. More flowers please, quick

Purple sunset a few weeks ago, at Tunnels Beach on Kauai’s North Shore.

Costas Hummingbird on my patio in Cathedral City. Its head is an iridescent purple, and its range is only the desert SW U.S. plus NW Mexico.

Random echinacea in our yard

Pretty flowers blooming in an old cemetary . Does anyone know what they are?

On the HighLine NYC

One purple cabbage from last Spring........and a green one to boot.

Localeater, those look like Balloon flower, Platycodon grandiflorus. Some call it Chinese bellflower.

Magenta rose (Kordes 1954). I started this rose from a cutting many years ago. This is the best it has ever done. I love the many petals.

ETA - It is more purple looking in real life than in the photo on a computer.

Thanks @OutsidePlaying

More Alliums.

It’s interesting to see what a wide variety of colours people see as ’purple’.

Always nice to have a touch of purple on the table legs.

@murraysmom Zone 6a OH Spiderwart is one of my favorites. Is that a Vanda in your second photo?

First night of the Eagles, Hotel California tour. Las Vegas 9/27/2019

Vanda orchid

Allison, that is an orchid that I saw on vacation in Florida. I see your Vanda. Beautiful!!

I just looked up the Vanda orchids and I think you are right about mine. It was growing outside in Florida and it was pretty big. I really love the color of it.

It’s funny because I really like the color purple, but walking around my home today I realized that I don’t have anything purple, except a few sweaters, but they’re still packed away until Fall. Anyhoo, I was born in February so amethyst is my birthstone. Here’s the Native American silver and amethyst necklace, bracelet and earrings DH bought me many years ago for a birthday gift.

I was also born in February and like amethyst. I have some amethyst crystals in L.A., but I'm not there right now, and I have not photographed them.

I'm a Pisces, and so some say that my birthstone is aquamarine, which I also like, but I like amethyst better.

Can I do a "select all" Like?

Lars, that bird,fabulous!