Do Flowers Have Personalities?

I have come to believe that flowers do have personalities.  Some are brash and bold while other are demure.  Some are extroverts and want to be center stage.  Others are introverts.  Shy things that just peek at you.  Here are a couple of examples.

Bold Extrovert

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You can’t ignore this big fellow, who sits just outside my office window.

Compare this to the Shy Introvert.

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These beauties peek at us from behind their large leaves.  Have you ever wondered why they call introverted people wall flowers?  This may explain it a bit.

While we finally got some rain today (only a trace), the future forecast looks promising.  We do water the vegetable garden, but most of our lawn is brown.

Summer heat bakes all
Grass on the lawn is now brown
Praying for some rain

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About Chuck

I am retired after a career in electronics and in publishing. Today, my wife of 50+ years, Sylvia, and I live in a house on a hill beside a dirt road in rural west Michigan. We enjoy living in this country environment where livestock and wild life out number the human population.

14 thoughts on “Do Flowers Have Personalities?

  1. We are going to the water park this weekend so I’m hoping we don’t get rain. You can have ours. 🙂 I like the shy and the bold flowers!!

    • Have fun at the water park. We very ready for rain. Radar shows rain system moving this way. I’m praying for rain. All the more since the neighbors have harvested their wheat.

  2. What a neat comparison of flowers and personalities !! Never thought of it that way .!! Hoping for a little more rain here too. Had just a little sprinkle the other day.

  3. Not a yucca fan, although I have one in bloom. Love the hollyhocks, but mine area all gone. People always seem to call daisies cheerful, so maybe you are right.

  4. Yes I agree with the personality thing. These are both pretty. We’ve had rain in the forecast but never got any. The lawn here is starting to turn brown

  5. Beautiful white flowers. Maybe you are correct about the personality thing. One of my favorites is white alyssum. I’m not sure what its personality might be.

    • Sylvia loves those too. She uses them for border plants. While they grow in the front, they are low as if trying to kneel or otherwise be inconspicuous. Hostas are in bloom here. Standing tall and proud.

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