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What are your favourite native flowers?
GemmaJF
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As we are in the wildlife bit lets go native! I know plenty of cultivars are good for bees and other bugs too, but I do like a selection of natives growing in the garden.
Top one, Foxgloves, love 'em and for me they can rival anything I've ever seen in a garden 
Favourite bulb, snake's head fritillary, just love those delicate bobbing heads and as rare as a very rare thing in the wilds these days.
Around a pond, can't beat a good stand of Purple Loosestrife and some Yellow Flag.
That's my must have list, over to you
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Snowdrops and hazel catkins - they flower in January - my birthday month
My heart leaps when I see a hedge of hazel catkins blowing in the breeze on a sunny day in winter 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
English bluebells, in their proper setting.....wouldn't want them in my garden..
...Woodbine honeysuckle....in a hedgerow... amongst others...
Not sure that counts Edd
English bluebells and hazel catkins remind me of country walks with my mum when I was really little
Where to start
Harebells, yellow bedstraw because I like the scent, lesser knapweed because it puts up with my soil and competes with the grass. Lots of peas; common vetch, birdsfoot trefoil and tufted vetch especially.
Plus all those others have mentioned but not cauliflower, it gives me belly ache
In the sticks near Peterborough
I forgot vipers bugloss
In the sticks near Peterborough
My favourite is definitely the primrose, so beautiful en masse in woodlands in spring. It also manages to beautify the banks along the parkways in Peterborough, and that's a tall order!
There's a nice bank of cowslips on one of the parkways as well Landgirl
also I like yellow rattle, it really does reduce the grass
In the sticks near Peterborough
Harebells lived in the chalk grassland around Cambridge when I was a kid Susan.
They grew better there than they do for me. I've also seen an excellent showing between the slabs on a friend's patio.
I've set some going in the gravel where I keep the babies. I hope I don't come to regret that
In the sticks near Peterborough
I love English bluebells and their scent. Also cowslips, on the thin limestone soil here there are loads in the spring. We have lots of wild orchids too.
Foxgloves, freesias (nan's favourite and can't beat the smell), primrose.