What plants remind you of your childhood?

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As a kid, I didn't care about plants. However, when I see pictures of Laburnum, I always feel nostalgic, because my aunt and my grandfather used to grow it in their garden many years ago and I remember I loved looking at it.

Even though I hate yellow flowers, I still think that Laburnum is a really stunning plant.

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The Hibiscus flowers was one of my favorite plant during my childhood years..i usually stick one or two hibiscus blooms in my hair and i would pretend to be a princess right throughout the day...and what's even more amazing is the fact that i see my daughter doing the very same thing at times.
 
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It may sound weird, but onions and roses remind me of my childhood. My daddy and granddaddy had a very large vegetable garden in back of our contingent houses. When I was about five, I was allowed to weed the onions, since the onions' leaves didn't look anything like the weeds, and even a five-year-old could tell the difference.
Then, when I was perhaps 10, I received a rose bush for my birthday. I loved that rose bush, watered it, pruned it, and brought roses to my aunt and my mama. I think those two memories are the root of my love of vegetable gardening, and roses.
 
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Kammy - I'm an adult, but I sometimes do it too:) When I want to feel like a princess, I wear roses in my hair:D
Marlingardener - That's very sweet! A rose bush sounds like a really lovely gift for a child:)
 
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I remember willow trees and bougan villas (definitrly not spelled correctly) but they were plentiful and so beautiful. The other ones were morning glories I was fascinated by the fact that they were only open in the morning and if I got up early enough I would be able to see them before school. Now you can eat them in a salad, how things have changed
 
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snowball bushes i think. my mother had a couple. i have the vaugest memory of her going back to an old house we lived in and digging a piece or small bush up to plant were we moved to.

i picked up a couple at lowes last spring. hope to get them in my front yard eventually.
 
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I've just googled snowball bushes to see what they look like and I must say that they're absolutely stunning!:love: I want to have them in my future all-white garden:D
 
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More of the foody plants remind me of my childhood. For example, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and carrots just to name a few. This is because when I was a child, my mother and I would always go to the backyard and we have to tend theses plants. It was a hassle for me but my mom seemed to enjoy it a lot. We always eat the plants we grow so I guess there's some sense of pride every time we eat those vegetables :p.
 
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Thank you everyone for sharing your lovely memories!:D

I'm not sure what is the English name of this plant:

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It grew everywhere in my aunt's garden. I remember I used to tear off its petals and use them as shoes for my dolls:D
 
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A plant that would remind me of my childhood would have to be dandelions, because whenever I walk by a patch of them, I remember back to when I was a child. I used to pluck all that I could find and make those cute little wishes that toddler would make and blow the dandelions.
 

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Thank you everyone for sharing your lovely memories!:D

I'm not sure what is the English name of this plant:

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It grew everywhere in my aunt's garden. I remember I used to tear off its petals and use them as shoes for my dolls:D


Columbines, Granny's Bonnets or Aquilegia.

Glad you stuck to the petals, the seeds would have killed you :eek:
 
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Green onions take me back because my mom grew winter onions everywhere we lived. I remember them peeking out from the snow, and we didn't always have much but we always had those winter onions. She also always kept Philodendrons around and I have always kept them too. I know she would have loved a real garden but our situation was not like that.
 
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Columbines, Granny's Bonnets or Aquilegia.

Glad you stuck to the petals, the seeds would have killed you :eek:
Really?:eek::eek::eek: This is so scary, no one warned me about it. I grew up surrounded by those plants. I'm so lucky that seeds didn't seem like a nice toy or food to little me:D
 

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Really?:eek::eek::eek: This is so scary, no one warned me about it. I grew up surrounded by those plants. I'm so lucky that seeds didn't seem like a nice toy or food to little me:D

They do make a nice rattling sound in the pods :D

Lots of poisonous plants in the average garden.
 

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