I wish I were a tulip, but I’m a pansy.
You can take quizzes on what flower you are — I’m a lily. I don’t feel like a lily at all.
I feel like a pansy.
For people who don’t know the names of flowers, I have taken some photos from Pixaby. I hope that’s helpful. These are pansies:
Spring is all decked-out in pansies.
I don’t plant pansies in the spring.
You see, much like me, pansies can’t take the heat.
Pansies will take a freeze, they’ll even hunker down in the snow. For a few months in spring, their happy lil faces smile at you, but then as the days grow longer and hotter, they start to look angry — and then they simply shrivel up and die.
I don’t care what the quiz says, I feel like a pansy.
It’s gonna be some ridiculous temp again today, like 83 or somethin. Bleh.
Any flowery thoughts to add?
joeyfullystated 
I’ll trade you the unbearable 83 for a cool, windy 55.
I bought “winter pansies” in later summer a couple of years ago. When it appeared the pansies were dead, I left the pot on the patio and covered them with another pot. Then we had the polar vortex winter, when “frozen tundra” had a special meaning. I don’t remember why, but I went out onto the patio some time in March and discovered the pansies were alive and green. I couldn’t believe it. Funny, though, as soon as it warmed up, they died for good. Perhaps that’s why they called them winter pansies.
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I will totally trade you weathers!
Yeah, pansies don’t mind winter much at all, especially if they’re sheltered a bit. Best planted in the Fall so you can enjoy them off and on until it’s hot.
I remember the polar vortex winter 🙂
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Be like the phlox. Stay close to the ground and cover the world with your color and joy.
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Awww! The phlox! Yeah 🙂 Thanks!
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Good thing you took awesome pics (they do look like faces); reading very quickly, your blog statement was one alphabet away from you being underware 😛 especially if you type on cellphone with autocorrect on.
Just kidding!
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Great pics. Some of them do look like scary faces. Nice write too.
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I’m a wildflower. “Gorgeously untamed and spontaneous… with many colorful sides to my personality.” Okay, I can live with that! Fun quiz.
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Oh lovely! 🙂
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Me too!! I loved the description and totally happy with it 🙂
We can be gorgeously untamed and spontaneous together!!
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Sounds like a great plan to me, joanne!
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Apparently Im an Iris, a “symbol of Faith and Wisdom.”
Almost made me spit up my morning drink 😛
But I guess if I HAD to pick a flower to be itd probably be the great white trillium, because its pretty 😛
Obviously my wisdom on the subject is nil so personality wise that may be a horrendous mistake…LOL
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Trillium is pretty.
I’m glad you didn’t hurl. You are wise, there is that. And you dunno, maybe the quiz people were speaking of your faith in caffeine 😉
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Uh, I’m a Lily?
“Graceful and elegant, you have an inner peace that immediately puts people at ease. You are poised and refined, but also warm and generous. You have a very nurturing soul, and you love sharing your inner beauty with those around you.”
Not.
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That was mine, too! Stupid quiz. I’ll agree on parts of it. I do put people at ease. People love me like cats that love people who hate cats. lol
I’m nurturing.
That’s it.
Graceful? Refined? Elegant? PPPTHBBBT! 😛
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LOL. Yeah, I’m not graceful, elegant, or refined. I don’t have any inner peace (I wish!) and I’m not poised.
But like always for these quizzes, sometimes all the options suck. 🙂
Also, hahahaha on the cats thing. I usually say that about dogs. They always know when people don’t like dogs and that’s the person they gravitate toward. But then again, people who don’t like dogs are ridonkulous.
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I have a friend who doesn’t like dogs. Lol She denies it, and is always pleasant to my dog and those of our friends, but you can just tell, she doesn’t like them. When discussing other people’s dogs, she frequently says “damn dogs!” so you know, at least she’s nice about it. And dogs, well dogs don’t care, cause why should they, they’re dogs! 😀
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Hub has one of those friends too. Lol
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I love spring flowers. Thanks for sharing these.
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I’m a Skunk Cabbage.
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I don’t even know what that is, Dale! Sounds like somethin you’d find in an ogre’s house. Is it prettier than it sounds? I’ll Google.
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It grows in boggy areas and I believe it’s a type of lily.
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Maybe I should point out that I didn’t get that from the quiz, it’s just how I think of myself. ;~}
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Ah, mmhm, said it smells bad, Dale.
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Hence the name.
Not sure if “skunk” has the same connotations over there, (other than the smelly animal, obviously) but if you start at “dank”, you’ll get there.
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I got iris, which was nice, but I would rather be a rose! Those pansies are beautiful Joey, full of vibrant colour and bursting with vitality! I think that suits you nicely (apart from the heat thing of course)!!!
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I like your take on it, Judy! Thanks 🙂
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Oh boy, I don’t know enough about flowers to know which one I’d want to be. I guess as long as I smell good, I’m fine with any of them.
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Fair enough 🙂
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I love pansies. I’m a wildflower. (hey, at least I wasn’t a weed!)
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Wonderful! 🙂
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I feel like a peony, but I’m pretty sure I’m a marigold.
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Now see, I’d bet you’re a peony, or a lily, or a rose — somethin fancy 😉
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Yeah, I feel like that but I’m WAY too strong and hardy emotionally. Physically maybe a peony LOL.
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Apparently I’m a sunflower, bright and cheery and bringing happiness wherever I go 😂😂 But at least I know that flower.
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🙂
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I am a dandelion! No matter what you do, you cannot seem to get rid of me! HEHEHE!
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I love pansies but it’s true that their life expectency can be real short. But when the weather cooperates they are so pretty! They symbolize spring for me.
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For some peculiar reason (which I didn’t investigate), in Slovenian language these beauties are called ‘mačehe’ which is also the exact same word for ‘stepmothers’. Go figure…
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That IS peculiar, but you know, whatever. We Americans call flowers and morning erections by the same name 😉
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Dropping down from AZ challenge,you have a great blog here.
Well,i have never heard of Pansis,they look so pretty.Have a pleasant spring 🙂
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That was so much fun. Apparently, I am a wildflower – “gorgeously untamed”. Haha! I understand about the heat. I don’t handle it well either. I would rather hide inside where it is nice and cool.
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I love pansies and your photos make me not wish to post mine, Joey. 🙂
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Haha, they’re not my photos, like I said, they’re from Pixaby 🙂 I’m not growin pansies.
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I was playing catch up and missed that important detail. Lol 🙂
“My” pansies photos were taken up at my Mom’s senior Apts. I just haven’t thought of the right thing to say. . .
Have a wonderful weekend to all in your family, Joey.
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You too!
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I love pansies! I admire their resilience, especially after watching them endure a hard winter and flower again in the spring.
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Took the quiz – I am an iris – but years ago I took a different quiz and was something else – cannot recall – but it was not an iris – either way – I like how you Identify with the pansy like that – mine to id with is a rose of Sharon-
Have a nice day
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