Sunflowers🌻

Dahlias, such a beautiful flower

Willows are lovely. I love how they sway, I love how they are the emo-bangs-haircut of trees, how you can weave their branches into baskets. Their smooth bark and silvery leaves, how their presence signals that water is close by. They are fey trees; if dryads exist then I am certain they are kin with willow trees.

Oaks are a close second. Big, tough, slow-growing, gives acorns back to the forest denizens, leaves are fill out character. They are the old grandpas of the forest, nurturing the younger life forms, offering them nooks and crannies to nest in, and eventually donating their bodies to the bacteria and fungus in the soil. They also make the best structures for tree houses, in my experience.

Birch! It’s the best! No other tree is as birch-like as a birch tree!

Might be a bit basic, but tulips always make me feel bit happier. They’re tons of other plants more fascinating, but tulips are just so easy to enjoy.

My wee, little olive trees have been very rewarding to grow.

They’re still so small, but I love them so much 😍

Northern Lights, Cannabis sativa.

Pecan trees make delicious food and get really big & shady.

Lilac. Every spring I make sure to stick my face in lilac blooms as often as possible. They are beautiful and the smell is the very definition of aromatherapy.

Ferns, love them, 720 pairs of chromosomes and all, been there before any grass, you have to respect that

Flower: Columbine. You can pull petals off and suck nectar out of them. Way more fun than it ought to be.

• Tree: Corkscrew hazel
• Flower: Garden rose

Jacarandas. They’re a big deal in the town where I was born, and they always remind me of home and my grandparents who have now passed. Plus they’re just beautiful.

Why not both?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liriodendron_tulipifera

Mesquite trees. They make my food more noms.

Also wood working with mesquite, it’s got the perfect density for being workable, looks nice, and every cut makes the shop smell like a barbeque!